5 spice powder si ka chua meat with cabbage
A friend of mine had been having problems with a si ka chua or a crocodile like creature. I don’t know its name. It would come and eat his chickens and ducks. The dogs would bark furiously but only look helplessly as it had its meal. It showed little fear of humans. A sweep of its tail would cause the chicken coop to totter and shake. It was a powerful creature.
My friend bought a hook like that used by the butcher to hang up meat. He attached it with a thick green rope and as bait, he used thick pork skin. However it refused to take the bait. It was so easy to come and take the chickens instead.
Anyway as fate would have it, one day the chicken coop fell on it and somehow it was killed by the weight of the chicken coop. My friend rushed out and saw the animal dead and the chicken coop on top of it. Anyway, that is his tale. It sounds like a tall tale but all sorts of stuff do occur in the jungle 
He then hung the carcass on a tree branch, made a slit along the mid-section and pulled off its skin. He gave me some of the meat.
Mrs Bengbeng refused to touch the meat. It gave her the creeps she said. What if the animal came back for revenge? Anyway, as they were my guests for the day and I had to cook lunch, I prepared 5 spice powder si ka chua meat with cabbage. I also used corn starch, palm oil, garlic,salt, light black sauce, and oyster sauce. I put in the cabbage at the last moment after the meat had cooked and stir fried just for a while. I think that is it but I can’t be sure. I was experimenting all along. :) I am posting as if I am a chef extraordinaire hahahahhaha.
But it was a tremendous success. It tasted fabulous. Mrs Bengbeng refused to take it but I told her it wouldn’t be polite because of our guests. She did take a piece but I think she didn’t consume it. She said she pantang if it comes back for revenge.
Update: Thanks Anthony for the info. I googled and found this pic of a monitor lizard. Pic thanks to mongobay.com
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hi bengbeng, it sounds like a monitor lizard. i was just blogging recently about how we use spice to cover up the gamey taste of meat, and it seems u have done it so well with this animal meat.I think it is very adventurous of you to cook it and eat it. What did the other guests think of it? or did they not eat it? From the picture, the meat looks very lean, hardly any fat at all.
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Eyew…I wouldn’t touch the stuff!!! I know one drain infested with those things - each at least a metre long!!! Too bad I am not adventurous enough to eat such exotic creatures! No frogs, no sago worms, no rabbit etc. for me either…!!!
Lizards are often eaten Australian Aboriginals in the outback. They kill them, throw it on the fire, then eat them.. yummo!
I personally never tasted one in my life but from the feedbacks that I got, the meat is so tender even better than chicken. If you ever eaten a phyton before, that one is also nice. I tasted once la but that time I didn’t know that it was a phyton. That was the first and the last though.
eh, si ka chua cook in curry is nice loh…. try and see!
is not every day i get a chance to cook si ka chua but will try
Si ka chua very poh wan, nice to eat also. Crocodile also not bad. Oh, I’ll know where to have meals with suituapui already. Bring him to exotic food restaurant (not that I know any in Sibu) and order all the snakes, frogs, rabbits, bats, terrapines, etc and we will not fight over food wan. Muahahahhaha!!!