Located quite a distance from the main area of Taman Connought Pasar Malam (and with good reason), Chiew Chiew Chow Tau Foo provides it's patrons with fried, rotten bean curd. - the name's abit, disturbing, i know. I thought so too -. With a tagline 'Aroma of a thousand miles', which is, indeed apt, the strongest stomachs (and minds) savour this decomposed delicacy with chilli cuka, and nothing else. (If it were me, I would need chilli cuka and some Febreeze)
From afar, one can only catch a whiff of the chow tau foo 'aroma' because it is mostly concealed by 'tai chow' smoke and other pasar malam smells, and you would probably think the stink is from some longkang somewhere behind. But as you walk closer to the Chiew Chiew Chow Tau Foo van, parked in a dingy, damp, back-alley behind a 'tai chow restaurant', you get the full olfactory experience, and it smells something like this :
ohmygoshwhatsthatsmellitfreakingstinksweiohmygoshpleaseletmedienow
Anyway, my friends, being such wonderful friends, not wanting me to miss out on any of life's great experiences, MADE me take a bite. Thankfully, it was dark, and I couldn't really see what I was eating - I didn't really chew either, just bit it, and shallowed the piece whole. I did look though, and from what I saw, it looked dark, and rotten. And smelly.
Well, I survived. Chow Tau Foo is not for the faint hearted. If you can't stand durians, walau-eh, you ain't smelt nothin' yet!
3 comments :
hahaha....yeah...i went recently and the stall wasn't at the usual place (near the overhead bridge) I could just catch the unmistakable whiff of 'aroma'. It was only on the way back that we saw the stall in a small little alley.I bet this is the first and the last time for u huh?
haha. yes. the first and LAST time.
Oh my goodness.. its shouldnt even be described as 'smell' more like 'stench'. In cas you dont know, its a delicacy in Taiwan. eeks..
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