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Dis post is a little graphic so those who can't stomach gore are advised to skip it....
Little gecko blogged about da doggie dat his viet lizards had been trying to fatten up for Chiristmas sometime ago (Click here) It was its refusal to gain any weight dat saved it from being da main entree last Christmas. However, da return of 2 of little gecko's viet lizards to Hanoi dis month called for a celebration.... and no celebration is complete without a full course doggie feast. So fat or not, da poor doggie became part of da celebration menu :o :o :o
So as usual there was da "Psst, boss ah, ya free next Saturday evening?" And da rest was understood. Kekekeke...
And so Saturday came. Work ended at 6pm as usual. And da viet lizards started looking around for their doggie. Unfortunately, it seemed to have disappeared. And da viet lizards started combing da entire industrial estate for their dinner. It attracted da attention of little gecko's fat lizard factory caretaker aunty and she instinctively knew wad was going on and decided to hang around to satisfy her curiosity. Dat really put off da viet lizards who incidentally hates her and dey decided to use her kitchen knife to butcher da mutt should find it. Unfortunately, da stupid viet lizards ended up taking little gecko's cake knife which was used 2 days earlier to cut a choc cake!! *bark* *bark* *bark*
Anyway, da mutt was found and 3 hours later, little gecko was invited back to da factory dormitory for da celebration. Imagine ya were patting da doggie dat morning and by evening it ends up on ya dinner plate :o :o Oh well, to put things in perspective, da viet lizards never played wid their food from day 1, and there's nothing unethical about eating canine meat, rite?
Tis time for little gecko to invest in a better camera phone rite? Ok, dis dish really puts little gecko off and he declined to eat any of it, even if it offends anyone. It was liver and stuffed intestine. Little gecko hates liver to begin wid and it wasn't difficult to rationalise why da intestine is all black on da inside. One can just imagine where dat mutt had been foraiging for da past few days... One of little gecko's fave viet lizards seemed to realize dis and was quick to reassure little gecko da black stuff inside da intestines was not da neighborhood's trash but a fine blend of vietnamese spices, thai basil, rice and marinated wid generous amounts of doggie blood.... Ok, so little gecko took a piece dat has been placed in his rice bowl. It has a strange texture and da taste of basil overwhelms everything else *phew*
Here ya see bits of doggie meat and skin cooked wid generous amount of soy bean paste. Dis one goes down one's throat easily. Kekekeke.....
Dis is doggie soup prepared ala mutton soup style. Da main spices used however are da ever popular star anise and cinammon. Da apple-like slices are actually green papayas. Da slim rib bones is testimony to how how skinny da mutt was prior to becoming dinner. Strangely, doggie meat tastes less pungent dan mutton.
Here's da usual bucket of herbs and vege dat usually accompanies any viet lizard's doggie feast. Da yellow one is some form of ginger dat's surprisingly mild wen eaten by da slices. And there's also lettuce, cilantro and mint...
Little gecko's viet lizards are resourceful and have been distilling their own wine all these years. Doggie feast however calls for da wine to be seeped in medicinal herbs as seen above. Wad little gecko din photograph is wad was later added to da wine before drinking.... Da doggie's gall bladder was slit open and out came some vile green juices which was den mixed into da liquor and drank amidst da many toasts and reciprocal toasts..
So how's da evening's food? Dun let da 2 skinny bones left on little gecko's bowl fool ya : half da evening, little gecko's mind was running wild about how strange da meat tasted and how he shouldn't be playing widda doggie his food if he's gonna be eating it months later.
Anyway, skinny or not, da doggie yielded over 4kgs of meat which was a lot to eat even for da 10 over lizards dat came for da feast. And by da time dinner was over, all traces of doggie head, fur and bones were assigned to one viet lizard who disposed it in some dense vegetation nearby.
Monday morning came and all da lizard aunties were wondering where dat doggie was only to receive a cheeky grin as a reply.... Kekekeke...
Little gecko blogged about da doggie dat his viet lizards had been trying to fatten up for Chiristmas sometime ago (Click here) It was its refusal to gain any weight dat saved it from being da main entree last Christmas. However, da return of 2 of little gecko's viet lizards to Hanoi dis month called for a celebration.... and no celebration is complete without a full course doggie feast. So fat or not, da poor doggie became part of da celebration menu :o :o :o
So as usual there was da "Psst, boss ah, ya free next Saturday evening?" And da rest was understood. Kekekeke...
And so Saturday came. Work ended at 6pm as usual. And da viet lizards started looking around for their doggie. Unfortunately, it seemed to have disappeared. And da viet lizards started combing da entire industrial estate for their dinner. It attracted da attention of little gecko's fat lizard factory caretaker aunty and she instinctively knew wad was going on and decided to hang around to satisfy her curiosity. Dat really put off da viet lizards who incidentally hates her and dey decided to use her kitchen knife to butcher da mutt should find it. Unfortunately, da stupid viet lizards ended up taking little gecko's cake knife which was used 2 days earlier to cut a choc cake!! *bark* *bark* *bark*
Anyway, da mutt was found and 3 hours later, little gecko was invited back to da factory dormitory for da celebration. Imagine ya were patting da doggie dat morning and by evening it ends up on ya dinner plate :o :o Oh well, to put things in perspective, da viet lizards never played wid their food from day 1, and there's nothing unethical about eating canine meat, rite?
Tis time for little gecko to invest in a better camera phone rite? Ok, dis dish really puts little gecko off and he declined to eat any of it, even if it offends anyone. It was liver and stuffed intestine. Little gecko hates liver to begin wid and it wasn't difficult to rationalise why da intestine is all black on da inside. One can just imagine where dat mutt had been foraiging for da past few days... One of little gecko's fave viet lizards seemed to realize dis and was quick to reassure little gecko da black stuff inside da intestines was not da neighborhood's trash but a fine blend of vietnamese spices, thai basil, rice and marinated wid generous amounts of doggie blood.... Ok, so little gecko took a piece dat has been placed in his rice bowl. It has a strange texture and da taste of basil overwhelms everything else *phew*
Here ya see bits of doggie meat and skin cooked wid generous amount of soy bean paste. Dis one goes down one's throat easily. Kekekeke.....
Dis is doggie soup prepared ala mutton soup style. Da main spices used however are da ever popular star anise and cinammon. Da apple-like slices are actually green papayas. Da slim rib bones is testimony to how how skinny da mutt was prior to becoming dinner. Strangely, doggie meat tastes less pungent dan mutton.
Here's da usual bucket of herbs and vege dat usually accompanies any viet lizard's doggie feast. Da yellow one is some form of ginger dat's surprisingly mild wen eaten by da slices. And there's also lettuce, cilantro and mint...
Little gecko's viet lizards are resourceful and have been distilling their own wine all these years. Doggie feast however calls for da wine to be seeped in medicinal herbs as seen above. Wad little gecko din photograph is wad was later added to da wine before drinking.... Da doggie's gall bladder was slit open and out came some vile green juices which was den mixed into da liquor and drank amidst da many toasts and reciprocal toasts..
So how's da evening's food? Dun let da 2 skinny bones left on little gecko's bowl fool ya : half da evening, little gecko's mind was running wild about how strange da meat tasted and how he shouldn't be playing wid
Anyway, skinny or not, da doggie yielded over 4kgs of meat which was a lot to eat even for da 10 over lizards dat came for da feast. And by da time dinner was over, all traces of doggie head, fur and bones were assigned to one viet lizard who disposed it in some dense vegetation nearby.
Monday morning came and all da lizard aunties were wondering where dat doggie was only to receive a cheeky grin as a reply.... Kekekeke...
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Each morning before da wet markets close at 10am, little gecko and his factory lizards, armed with large plastic bags, would troop down to all da stalls selling towgay to collect wad is essentially trash to dem. If ya think da husks as nicely sorted out and set aside for ya... well, nothing is further from da truth. While some aunties are nice enuf to set aside da husks in cartons for ya, others just throw dem away in containers together wid their other trash. And yes, ya gotta use your hands to dig into da pile to get wad ya want. After ya have collected da husks, ya thank da storekeepers profusely for da hoard. Frankly, most of da times, da storekeepers dun even bother to acknowledge ya.
On a good day, ya can collect up to 10 kgs of da husks and on some weekdays, da takings can drop to only 4 kgs :o These bags of husks are den whisked off to housewives living nearby for processing. Processing means sorting and removing da husks from da unwanted stuffs like da sprouts, roots, shrivelled bean pods and sometimes... other unmentionable objects... :o Once ya are left wid da husks, dey are cleaned wid anti-bacteria detergents twice before putting da stuff out for sunning.
Here ya see trays upon trays of da husks being put out to dry in da sun. Sunning dries da husks and ultraviolet light also acts as a sterilizer, immobilizing da remaining bits of germs dat may still be present. How long da husks are sun is actually an art. Da trick is not to over sun da husks till dey are too crisp and disintegrate easily. Wad ya want are husks dat are slightly springly and mellable. Here's a close up of da dried husks...
Once every few days, little gecko will bring his trusty little weighing scale over to da homes of those lizard aunties to weigh da processed husks. But even before dat, da husks have to be inspected for dryness, presence of mould, degree of cleanliness etc. Should any fail da grade, da housewives are asked to reprocess da husks again :) Yup, little gecko pays for da husks by weight. And da price? Ya can be sure tis much more dan wad Starbuck pays those poor Colombian lizards for their coffee beans ;)
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Along came Jordan one fine day. Unlike da disciplined Charlie, Jordan is a free spirit. He wanders from place to place and earns a livelihood from the books he writes inspired from da lizards he has met and places he has been to. Dey were comfortable wid each other and became good friends soon after. Just as everything seemed fine and dandy, both their pasts caught up wid dem. Charlie's father, a reformed alcoholic, came back into their lives and wanted to start afresh wid his family. Jordan, had a brush wid some shady figure while he was in Mexico and dat thug finally found him and demanded money which he didn't have.
