eat this

Ewww......when my colleague passed me this, it's like i was expecting it emit some foul smell....you get what i mean.

nope, no smell at all. of course if you're any decent malaysian you'll know that it's asam jawa. i have not seen them sold like this before, it's usually in processed form.

break the shell (pic on the right) and eat it's contents minus the root looking thing. it's nice, not as nice as if you cook it with prawns, asam prawns - my mom used to cook that, it's one of my favorite dish. yum...yum.

i did a search on the net and found that it is claimed to be able to cure quite a lot of ailments. Asthma, dry cough, fever and a few others.