InVinoVeritas

I am told there are Chinese restaurants in Malaysia that serve bunting. I've never come across one, has anybody else?

JC3

Jeremy Clarkson ate one on TV.

Here in Malaysia they are probably only available on the blackmarket and then served on the Q.T. at certain restaurants for their ‘special’ customers.

Eating songbirds is much more common in China I believe, although I doubt the Chinese drown them in Armagnac, unlike the French!

See: http://www.theguardian.com/environme...ina-study-says

With every bite, as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors: figs, Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with the salty taste of my own blood as my mouth is pricked by the sharp bones. As I swallow, I draw in the head and beak, which, until now, have been hanging from my lips, and blithely crush the skull.
From the book Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain (American chef).

JC3

InVinoVeritas

A phone number would have sufficed, I take it you don't have one

JC3

Cross my palm with silver...

JC3

InVinoVeritas

Not getting very far with this.

I thought the attached photo may interest you JC3 - it's how the ortolan are eaten in France - the cloth over the head increases the olfactory sensation. Most people think it's just another masonic ritual

PS I'm second from the left

JC3

Looks like you're all hiding your faces from God.

Last night I asked the old Chinese-Malaysian auntie (Lim) who traps monitor lizards scavenging at night for dead fish the tide brings in at Kampung Karut. Somehow I was sure she’d know. Lim can tell you where to go.

You’ll find her once or twice a week around 6pm-7.30pm at her stall in Batu Ferringhi on the side road near the school, where she fries her lizard steaks in breadcrumbs. I think what day she's there depends on whether she's caught enough or not.

The tail is the best part - tastes a bit like rabbit, only sweeter and more juicy. Be sure to try the lizard soup too.

As the Chinese say: "If its back faces heaven, you can eat it”.

JC3

InVinoVeritas

I'm shocked you could eat lizard

InVinoVeritas

I found Lim when I was in BF last might and now have the details of the restaurant - thanks for the tip JC.

PS She said if you ever need a screw urgently she may be able to save you the drive to Gurney.

JC3

OK great.

Auntie Lim is lovely, but I think I'll take a rain cheque.

It's easy to miss the bunting place - as you drive up the street it's on the left. If you see the Blue Parrot you've gone a little too far.

JC3