Saturday, June 07, 2008

Tamu Muhibah - Native Market Part 2
I almost forgot to post this second installment of photos taken at Tamu Mubibah (Market). Anyway, here it is... photos taken at the market.
Another type of "cooking banana". yummy yummy

Bamboo shoot ... we ate a lot of this stuff when we are young - poor man food!

Lemon Grass - very fragrant, normally for curry and Tom Yam Soup

You also find live pet fish - very hardy fish from the (monsoon) drain

Herbs

This is young shoot from coconut tree or palm tree. Crunchy and nice!

I was told this is for cooking curry

Wild ginger root

This is made from the stem of coconut leave. Used for sweeping floor.

Balacan - fermented shrimp paste.

Prawn/fish cracker. Too colourful to be healthy!

Dried shrimp

Raw sago flour - I will blog about how this is made later.

From left: Fried sago pellet, honey, assorted herbs

Baby mango for eating with sambal (dried prawn + balacan + chili)

Bamboo for cooking rice. The hollow is stuffed with meat and rice. Cook over fire. Very nice!

From left: don't know what is that, sago pellet, baby shrimp fermented in brine

Young jack fruit - for cooking

This fruit is actually quite nice and sweet (looks like assam but it is not)

2 comments:

LingDi said...

Buah salak is really nice! My fav!

Shree Padre said...

I'm an Indian farm Journalist.William, your blog holds a window to Malaysai. Congrats!

I want to establish contact with you. I'm especially interested about Jackfruit, marketing tender jackfruits as vegetable, value addition of jackfruit in Malayasia etc. We can exchange a lot of information. Can you please mail me? I failed in locating your e-mail!

- Shree Padre