From the recipe notes in the booklet, the result is meat rice that tastes like it!
PENDANG: Visitors to the Pendang Ramadan Bazaar will not be complete if they do not bring ‘Pak Teh’ crater meat rice.
Either way, meat rice if you know how to make it, can arouse the appetite of its fans.
Trader Halim Shaari, 68, who is more affectionately known as ‘Pak Teh’, said that the specialty of his hand-made kawah water meat rice is that it is cooked openly before being sold directly to customers who never stop visiting the bazaar.
According to Pak Teh, he kept the recipe for this meat rice in a small book and after quitting the fruit business, he looked for the book again and tried to cook the meat rice in the crater until it became.
“Every day I will come as early as 10 am to cook and stir-fry the local meat rice spices, in the cauldron.
“The uniqueness of this cauldron meat rice is that we take care of its cleanliness. As much as 20 kilograms each of rice and local beef are washed well before being evaporated and cooked in the cauldron for almost two hours.
“Each cauldron will be filled with 200 pieces of meat that have been cut according to size for each pack of rice that will be sold.
“I didn’t think the cooking knowledge that I saved from my late father is now a mandatory menu for rice and meat lovers,” he said .
Every day Halim Shaari will come as early as 10 am to cook and stir-fry the local meat rice spices in the cauldron
Pak Teh, assisted by his wife, Adidah Awang Tengah, 55, and his daughter, Nur Sabariah Halim, 31, since the beginning of Ramadan until today, is grateful because the response to his pot meat rice was quite encouraging and in less than two hours it was sold out with the proceeds sales about RM2,000 per day.
Halim Shaari was assisted by his wife, Adidah Awang Tengah and daughter, Nur Sabariah Halim selling ‘Pak Teh’ pot meat rice at Ramadan Bazaar Pendang, Kedah.
He said, the meat rice is also accompanied by tamarind water and meat curry which is sold at a price as cheap as RM10 for each set.
