Petai

Petai is well known as a bitter beans in South East Asia, especially in Malaysia. Petai is a name of food that the word from Malay, in English we called it 'Parkia Speciosa', hmmm..quite a nice name that it had. But in Chinese we called it ' Chou Dou', means that 'The Smelly Beans'.Well, the reason of peoples called the petai as bitter beans, it was because the taste of petai is bitter and with a strong stinky fruits smells like methane. Actually the petai's characteristic is just same as the durians, I feel quite pity of them. Some peoples are like the petai, they can be accept the aroma of petai and some peoples are can't accept it and dislike the petai, the reason is they feel that the aroma is too smelly for them, and they dislike the aroma of petai  keep staying in their mouth that after they had eaten the petai. But for me, petai is my favourite food, especially cook with red chili paste and prawns, actually this is my dearest mom's recipe. That why I love this food. 

Petai, Petai, Petai~~~
It has a lot of ways to cook the petai, but most of the peoples think that the petai is always cooked in spicy dishes. When you think petai, then it can bring you automatically imagine that it's a spicy dish. Petai also can be cooked with non-spicy dished. For example, petai can be cooked with minced meat, no matter is chicken, pork or beef meat. But the main important is minced meats. Slice the onions. Heat up the oil with the saute pan or wok, firstly put the onions saute it until the onion's flavour come out, and then put the mince meat and then saute it together. Well, how to see the meat was cooked? If chicken meat it will turn into white color,it was because chicken is a white meat and the beef and pork are red meat, so the beef will turn into dark brown color, and the pork is light brown color. Next, put the petai to saute it together,At last, add the soy sauce and seasoning with salt & peppers. For spicy flavour, I would like to say that petai can't live without the chili paste (Chili Boh) and the sambal balacan, spicy food can stimulate your taste buds, that why it can make you feel want to eat more and more and more.. Mostly the petai dish always match with the seafood, especially prawns and squids. It can cover the seafood's shifty taste.

Petai can help you to dissolving your constipation problem. It's had a high in fiber, petai in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives. For my experience, when I went to washroom for doing the 'business', once you finished, I can smell it a strong petai smell that from the toilet bowl. Sound feels scary, but it is helping you to dissolve your constipation problem. Petai can be lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. For example, pregnant women eat petai to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.Petai can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain,help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal. 

The petai has a lot of benifit to our body. It is a natural remedy for many ills. That the reason why I love to eat petai.