After settling in our hotel, our guide, Miss Tina alias Ms Wang Yan ( meaning beautiful goose) told us that she was taking us to a local Muslim restaurant before we do our afternoon tour. Ms Beautiful Goose is a member of the Naxi minority community predominant in this region of Yunnan.
The Muslim restaurant was located in the new part of the city. It looked like a family run business and we were the only patrons that afternoon. After cooking and serving us our lunch they cooked and helped to themselves their own lunch.
The restaurant was clean but still had the 'odour' that reminded pakdokter of the first experience pakdokter had in a Muslim restaurant in Kunming many years ago. Pakdokter later learnt that the characteristic smell actually emanated from the 'cured' or dried meat and animal parts hung at different places in the restaurant.
Ms Beautiful Goose told us that meat is an expensive commodity - and whenever a family slaughters a cow, goat or pig, they will cook and eat a small portion each time while 'curing' and drying the rest so that it will last between 6 months to a year. In a way it is very much like our folks doing our 'ikan kering' or 'pekasam' in the kampongs. Pakdokter guessed we are familiar with these 'fishy' aromas but tended to react 'violently' to 'meaty' bouquets........Interesting psycho-socio-anthropologcial observations.....
pakdokter's partner (above)and our travelling companions (below)...
see the 'cured' meat pieces hanging in the kitchen..
chunks of meat hanging from the roof....
quite a common scene in many Spanish pubs also ....
maqtam islamiah?.....
no, it did not look like it.......
parts of cow intestines left to dry in the sun....
sayur bayam cooked to our style at our instructions...
a local mushroom sauteed with garlic and dried chillis....
this beef stew was not bad...
rice was served in a wooden bucket...
this lunch was not bad.........
see the 'cured' meat pieces hanging in the kitchen..
chunks of meat hanging from the roof....quite a common scene in many Spanish pubs also ....
maqtam islamiah?.....no, it did not look like it.......
parts of cow intestines left to dry in the sun....when you order a beef soup, a small section will be
cut off and broiled into soup with some vegetables..
sayur bayam cooked to our style at our instructions...
a local mushroom sauteed with garlic and dried chillis....
this beef stew was not bad...we especially requested to use very little oil and spice or chillis.
it turned out like the 'ngau lam soup' one can get in Petaling Street...
chunks of radish or/and 'labu ayer' was the other ingredient in the soup...
rice was served in a wooden bucket...this lunch was not bad.........
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