Penang Hawker Food

Bah Kut Teh

It has herbal flavour and strong smell

How to make  Bah Kut Teh???

• Take a large pot and put sparerib pieces in it. Add enough cold water to cover them completely. Parboil until foam rises to the surface. • Drain the water and rinse the meat with cold water and return it to the pot. Add garlic and 2 liter of water. • Put cinnamon, star anise and peppercorns in a cheese cloth; tie it and add bag to the pot. • Bring water to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer uncovered for 1 hour or until the meat shrinks from the bones. • Skim excess oil from the surface and discard it. • Remove the spice bag from the pot. • Season the prepared soup with salt, sugar and dark soy sauce to taste, and stir. • Bak Kut Teh is ready. Serve with white steamed rice.

The many sides of him

Shel wasn’t quite in on the ground floor of Playboy, but he probably hit the first floor. He and Hugh Hefner had a lot in common - they both grew up in Chicago, they both served in the army, they were both cartoonists and they both loved women (more on that later). At the time, the magazine was so new that when Shel didn’t hear back from Hef within a month or so of dropping his cartoons off for review, he just assumed that the fledgling magazine had gone under. When he went back to pick up his portfolio, though, Hef personally told Shel that he was buying several cartoons and forked over a check right then and there. But the check was more to Shel than just money - it represented his ability to support himself on his talent, which his dad had mercilessly mocked him about for years. He cashed Hef’s check immediately, went home and threw the money down on his parents’ table and told them he was moving out and was going to support himself as a cartoonist.