Monday, March 21, 2005

Speaking of feet...

Last Last sunday I was in Bangsar.

They have this night market.

And then the girl I was out with.

(The girl who frowned when i told her i was looking for a casual partner.
I'd disappointed her I think. She was perhaps hoping I was a serious boyfriend material.)

Anyway... we stopped by a Lok Lok place.

It's a van with all this raw food on little metal plates.

You'd have chicken marinated on sticks.

Liver on sticks.

Minced fish with flour (Fish paste) on sticks.


Here's the interesting part.

Lok Lok... comes from the sound you're making.


You take the raw food and dip it into little pools of boiling water.

You dip it. It makes a 'Lok' sound. Thus the Lok Lok name.

And you're essentially cooking your own food.

Speaking of feet...

there's this concoction of duck feet.

They take the skin of the feet of duck.

Stuff it with pork liver and fish ball.

And marinade it in oyster sauce and dark soy sauce and five spice.

I'm not the hugest fan of five spice but it was interesting.

What I *do* like is liver.

But I tend to stay away from this Lok Lok on account of my irrational fear of catching diseases from unhygienic people.

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My own version probably would have been dark soy sauce, with chili, garlic, basil and balsamic vinegar.

And baked till the skin was crispy.

Served in very thin pancakes.

Smeared with a pesto wasabi dressing.

Yum.....