A Walk Through Mid-Eastern Supermarket @ Serdang

pickled stuffed grave leaves 

dates puree

dates vineger

various vinegers

ground white sesame seeds

pickled mango

pickled cucumbers

pickled hot peppers

pickled baby okra ( left ) & 

pickled brinjal ( right )

salted mixed vegetalbe ( left )
pickled garlic ( right )

canned boiled chickpeas

canned red beans

canned green peas with carrot

whole kernel corn

white beans

pickled olives

pistachio halva

Only in Sarawak : Corned Beef

Corned beef is a salt-cured beef product. The term comes from the treatment of the meat with large grained rock salt, also called "corns" of salt. It features as an ingredient in many cuisines. Most recipes include nitrates or nitrites, which convert the natural hemoglobin in beef to methaemoglobin, giving a pink color. It has been argued that nitrates reduce the risk of dangerous botulism during curing. Beef cured with salt only has a gray color, and is sometimes called "New England corned beef". Often sugar and spices are also added to recipes for corned beef.


It was popular during both World Wars, when fresh meat was rationed. Corned beef remains popular in the United Kingdom and countries with British culinary traditions and is commonly used in sandwiches, corned beef hash or eaten with chips and pickles. It also remains especially popular in Canada in a variety of dishes, perhaps most prominently Montreal smoked meat.



Corned beef is commonly found in shelves of grocery stores and supermarkets throughout Sarawak.   Across the South China Sea, in Malaya, corned beef is something shockingly unheard of.

A Walk Through Supermarkets in Sibu : Canned Food

whole kernel corn... canned & tetrapacked 

clams in soy sauce

 Wow ! Petai in brine !

various fruit drinks...

(from left to right)

pink guava, soursop, another soursop, 

orange juice, young coconut juice...

 

 colourful fruit juices 

with angry birds...

lagi colour-loaded sport drinks

Cola ape ni ?

Birdnest drink !