The Pure Goodness of Pork

This is a very simple dish of clear pork soup, most basic in ingredients and preparation. It has a peppery taste and very light fragrant of freshly boiled pork. The meat is boiled in chunks and sliced only when ready to serve. The fried garlic sprinkled on when ready to eat provides the soup with a most enticing aroma and crunch.

The other exciting part about the pork soup is also in the chili sauce and the accompanying 'kicap'(soy sauce) laced with deep fried lard bits. Bliss!

She assembles the sliced meat as the orders come. Take a note on the little girl sitting at the far right hand corner of this pic.

A constant crowd waiting to be served.

And this bunch that crawled out of bed at the ungodly hour of 7am on a Sunday, waiting patiently for their chow.

The stall is amidst the most natural setting of huge trees and vegetation by the side of a river. The aroma of a good soup coupled with this natural ambience make you grateful to be alive.

The old dilapidated and new hanging bridges side by side.

Remember the girl in the earlier pic? She helps clear the table, put all the used utensils in a pail (with at least seven to eight ceramic bowls!) and carries them to the wash. Hardly eight years old.

One of the five or six stalls in this mini Sunday tamu (weekly market), smallest that we know.

This particular tamu, I suspect, is all about the pork soup.