The market actually starts on Saturday afternoon. It is renowned for Bidayuh ladies set up small stalls selling fruit and vegetables, saying that there are lots of Chinese and Malay stalls as well. Goods on offer include handicrafts, forest produce, pets of all descriptions, plants, live fish (both pet fish and comsumption fish), and a whole range of local snacks and delicacies. The market is very colourful and reeming with shoppers. The best time to go is Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
Below are a few photos which I took at the market.
Lotsa vegie stalls
Clams. These are yum when fried with egg noodles!!
Very wet fish market
Yup. They are king prawns.
King of the king prawns. Fresh Of Tha Boat.
Wonder whether if fish got brain? There you go. Proof!!
Hundreds of chicken for sale at the market. Head or headless. You choose.
Moo cow. Not from New Zealand.
Dry Fish, one of Chinese delicacy.
Fruit stalls are over the place selling exotic tropical fruits which I have not had for a long time.
One of my favourite tropical fruit, 'Ang Moh Durian'. 'Ang Moh' means Pakeha (white guys). Not sure where the fruit name came from...
The taste is sweet, the after math is messy. Juice were all over my hands and mouth...
This is Buah Kolong (Kolong Fruit). Very sour but if to apply a dash of salt when eat, it becomes a very additive fruit snack.. trust me
I miss this fruit the most. The name is Buah Ciku (Ciku Fruit). The texture is kind of similar to Kiwifruit but no way near as sour as Kiwifruit. In fact it is soft and sweet. Mmm~~
These are Jambu. Very nice pretty reddish pink.
Fruit texture is a bit like candy floss. Just a lot juicier.
Red Dragon Fruit. I think it looks more like 'Red Fireball' fruit
This is how red the fruit is. Mum told me if we had too much of this, even our poo will turn red ah~
Shame that when I went back it was the wrong season to be able to buy the so called 'King Of The Fruit' - Durian.
Durian is a seasonal fruit and distinctive for its large size, unique odour, and formidable thorn-covered husk. It can grow to as big as 30 centimetres long and 15 centimetres in diameter, and weighs between one to three kilograms.
It has a very sophisticated taste. I found this article from internet which, maybe, gave a best description of this fruit:
"The five cells are silky-white within, and are filled with a mass of firm, cream-coloured pulp, containing about three seeds each. This pulp is the edible part, and its consistence and flavour are indescribable. A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy. It is neither acid nor sweet nor juicy; yet it wants neither of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact, to eat Durians is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience. ... as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour it is unsurpassed".
What do you think? All of these descriptive words are contained within a bite of Durian. Thou it still hardly ever near how it tastes like.
It has a very very distictive smell as well. People either love it or hate it. There is almost no in between. I found this description of the smell from internet:
"Its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away".
Really?! Come on, I don't think it smells like pig-shit at all!! And I don't eat pig-shit. But the smell is strong alright.
Because of that, the fruit is forbidden at some places like hotels, airports etc...
Scared yet?
1 comment:
Meh im sure i have had worse.
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