CANADA DAY

July 1st 2010

Tomorrow is Canada's National Day. I understand that Queen Elizabeth will be in Canada to honor the National Day.

Happy 143!!

Belacan and CenCHALOK

My instructors at University of Saskatchewan always ask me what is the menu whenever we had special functions such as Hari Raya or the National Day gatherings. Often the questions asked were how hot and how spicy the delicacies were?

However there are other Malaysian dishes which were not served during those occasions.For instance budu, belacan and cenCHALOK. The reason why we did not serve it was that Canadians could not stand the smell of these delicacies.For every house, room or apartment which I rented there were always complaints when I cooked my belacan.

Belacan in simple term is prawn paste.We would cook the belacan before mixing it with chilli.Although the smell is bad to Caucasians the taste was good.As for cenCHALOK, this delicacy is from Melaka and we can eat it raw.