From Dorkas's Kitchen

From Dorkas’s Kitchen

August 2013

Last week we were invited by a lovely family to join them at their home for dinner and FHE.  The first week they saw us in church they said we needed to have some real Malaysian food.  Dorkas is a single mom with 4 grown children, aging from 14-21. Selica, Ebony, Ivory & Jacob.  The oldest daughter, Selica, was in a car accident months ago.  She is a beautiful miracle!  Although she uses a wheelchair to get around she has learned to stand and hopes to walk again someday. 

Elders Loke and Jahali accompanied us for the activity.   These two elders seem to love the shock treatments we are going through here.  One is Chinese, the other is a native from East Malaysia, and both of them will eat anything!

The dinner was spread before us in the frontroom on the coffee table.  Only spoons are offered as utensils.  Most everything we saw we had never eaten before.

Fried rice with wild bore = very good.

Soft, white, mildly sweet fruit with tiny black seeds, dragon fruit = great.

Scrambled eggs with hot, spicy sauce = good enough.

Dark green vegies served hot in a vinegar sauce = makes taste buds squeal.

Chicken chunks cooked in red, spicy powder = quite good.

Little fish about 6” long, deep fried into crispy critters with guts in and heads on   = salty but tasty.  Dad loved these!

Strips of meat 5” long shaped in half circle, scales on, ribs poking out both sides, deep-fried golden brown, white meat and quite tough. Python! = feeling very guilty.

 

Eating python was definitely a surprise!  We told our guests we didn’t eat python, we petted them.  They were more surprised than we were!

                                                     I took a tuna macaroni salad.

 

Crispy fishy in one hand, python in the other.

 

Python, deep-fried!