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2010.04.06

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Austin

The sign says 'sabok' in big letters and 'mamuen' in parentheses.

I don't think I've seen nor heard of them either.

Austin

Aussie Tourist

I am not sure I got the story right.Did you mean the nuts that you eating have been through the cow's intestine firstly? You then roast it to eat? Similar to Kopi Luwak?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

Haha.. hope so. That will be another odd story I can tell the kids.

Aussie Tourist

Robyn

Thanks Austin. A link above gives many names. Wan says 'cha bok' - Isan pronunciation, I suppose.

Aussie Tourist - the 'nuts' are actually seeds encased in the pit of a fruit. The cows eat the fruit, poop it out --- the fruit is peeled away, then the pit cracked open and the seeds extracted.
Not like kopi luwak in that seeds from a fruit harvested from cow poop are no more prized than seeds from a fruit that never saw the mouth of a cow.
Just a bit of trivia.

Katarina

Im going to try some of the dishes and places you had wrote about in your blog these days when I go back to Malaysia.

Regards from a Swedish women who now living in Philippines.

http://kattasfikarum.blogspot.com/

Regards Katta

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