slaughtering a frog, or better known as, ze Tin Kai. Well, it seems like the Eat Your Porridge post has attracted a handful of response, on the Tin Kai that is (I surprised that so many of you actually loves that stuff) and now, I'm a little curious. How many of you has actually seen for yourself, the slaughtering of the jumping creature into the bits and pieces that you eat. I kinda noticed, public slaughtering is not commonly sighted anymore nowadays, mainly due to the establishment modern markets, I guess, which maintains a certain level of hygienic practises (its a mess I tell you). If luck is on your side, you might just come across one at your local Night Market (pasar malam).
Well, let Jed enlightened you with the knowledge on how a typical vendor, let's name him AhHuat in this instance, prepares his goods. Before proceeding, let me just say that this is a no image post but if you're quite imaginative, you might just slightly gross yourself. You have been warned.
A typical slaughtering starts with AhHuat placing a frog on a wooden platform and smashing its head with an unidentified heavy object, to immobilize or most of the time, kill it. You can still see some wrigglings on their legs after the smashing, the muscles retracting I guess. Next, the frog would be chopped off (but I saw a stall that kept the head intact before) and deskinned, layer of skin being pulled backwards from the neck, off its body but still in one piece. I guess it must be really durable/strechteable to withstand all that tugging and pulling. Frog skin purses, anyone?
Then AhHuat, would take a knife and cut an opening on the frog's stomach, to remove all the innards, which is more like a clump of unidentifieable, messy and bloody stuff (the intestines and stomach can still be recognized though). AhHuat would clean the blood off from the outer as well as inner body of the frog in a pool of bloody water after that, and proceed to chop ze frog into the standard pieces, 4 legs and the body makes 4 parts as well. Another washing before AhHuat places them into a plastic bag and pass them to you, having almost to shout to get your attention because your eyes were still shut tight.
And there you have it, what happens to the Tin Kai before it becomes the pieces in a deliciously stewed dish that you crave for, to go with porridge, sometimes. Sedaps kan? Another thing is, the description is based solely on what I saw a few years back, maybe they have a better way of doint it now.
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