Friday, February 24, 2006

The Colour of Sin is a Crispy Brown

My phone camera is pretty crappy, so it might not be possible for you to recognise this blur of brown on the plate.

This, dear friends, is the picture of SIN!

Take the foot of a pig. Steam it until the meat is soft and tender. Then deep-fry lightly just till the skin is crispy.

There's a lot more to the recipe than this, but this is as much as I can figure out.

Steaming cooks and softens the meat without leaching out the flavour and juices in the meat, like what happens if you stew the meat.

Deep-frying alone will harden and dry the meat, and often dissolve away much of the fat in the meat.

But a combination of the two creates a miraculous dish of soft tender meat with juicy fat and crispy skin. It's like an orgy in your mouth.

And it only costs less than a dinner for one at TGIF. Not to mention that the restaurant also has crabs at RM13 /kg.

Business is mad, there's a specialised cook for this dish. And probably a whole production line for sorting, gutting, cleaning, and cooking crabs. The restaurant spans across 3-4 ground floor shop-lots.

You can find this restaurant at these approximate co-ordinates: N2 deg 18.320' E111deg 50.875'. You may GoogleEarth it, or head there with a GPS.

Mere walking distance from my parents' house in Sibu.

With this promise of a taste orgasm, maybe now I can convince some friends to come visit me in Sibu some time...

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