Sarumi - the little known salad, consumed by Penangites

 

 

Many have been wondering how Penang women stay youthful, with lithe sexy figures even when approaching 70.

While genes play a major role, exercise, fresh air from the sea and the hills, a passion for life and I dare say,love too, are major contributory factors .

 

However, women from other states have been speculating for decades, that perhaps, it could be due to foods, such as assam laksa and heh koh.

To me,other than fresh shore oysters,the Ampla fruit drink, this bitter vegetable below, could well be one of the reasons.

( You can count fish out, because, even flies won't go near these formaldehyde soaked carcasses nowadays.)

 

 

Sold in most wetmarkets, the vegetable originally used to be grown on river banks and was fed to livestock.

It resembles the Japanese rose groundcover plant, except that it is green in colour.

 

Most Chinese, opt for a quick stir fry together with sambal belacan.

But I prefer the Malay version, raw with hot vinegrette ladled on top ...kerabu style. Will tell you where you can get this in another post.

 

Ladle out a portion and munch on it, like it were a packet of crisps.