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From: tsc2597@acf4.UUCP (Sam Chin)
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Subject: Re: What is the best way to eat a mango?
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 18:36:00 EDT
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While on the subject of Mangoes with soy sauce, there is a great Malaysian
fruit salad called 'rojak'. Basically, it consists of almost ripe mangoes in
slices, with diced cucumbers and diced pineapple. The sauce consists of 1
tsp of dark soy sauce (not Kikoman please but the thick syrupy, unsalty soy
sauce) 1/2 tsp of Sambal Oelek (a Malaysian/Indonesian chili paste you can
find in Chinatown) 1Tbs sugar, 1Tbs vinegar and 1 Tbs lemon juice. Mix them
all together. If you can find something called belachan (a kind of dried
shrimp paste), sprinkle it on top. Mmmmm... my mouth is watering already.
But beware about the belachan. The last time I cooked with it people thought
that I had a dead body rotting in my apartment from the smell (heavenly to
me though)

It is true that you must not pluck mangoes when they are ripe but just
before.  Besides the flying foxes (a kind of mammal which climbs trees, then
glides down) used to get at them when they were ripe. Leave them in a cool
place for a week or so and you will get a firm, sweet mangoe.

Sam Chin
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