Waxed Chicken
Ok, if we ignore bird flue, there was some interesting food. For example, as KL has a lot of rain, they don't have lack of tropical fruit...
...I also recognized nuts and similar stuff, it is the same like in Europe...
...but what the hell is this????
Here I took small lecture, interrupted several times with boring CD dealers and fake alarms that police is coming. So, this things on the left are their dry-meat delicious, a thin sausage with several different tastes.
I have to admit that those sausages didn't impress me, certified tester of meat products, approved reviewer of Dalmatinian smoked ham and arbiter between kulen from Posavina region and Podravina region. I tried this, just not to insult shopkeeper. It is dry meat, and it would be pitty not to try...
But this stuff on right side was much more shocking: chicken without internal organs with bones broken so it looks like pressed (that is why it looks rounded), with this two extensions that are in fact legs. In order to keep the form, shape and freshness, it is topped with wax. All meat there was covered with thin layer of wax...
Besider Jalan Petaling, also neighbouring streets are markets usually with grouped similar activities. For example, very active Jalan Hang Lekir...
...was very busy, as it is home of florists, and local custom is to decorate house enterance with this...
Don't ask me for name, because I don't know it. A fruit very close to mandarine, but much smaller (approx. cherry size) and it is eaten with rind. KL was full of these, it is usual procedure to decorate home with this for Chinese New Year.
When I say New Year and mean about food, I still prefer sarma...
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