Little did I know, they were sought after to be turned into Turtle Soup or Turtle Noodle Soup..Kuala Pilah town is deemed one of the famous place that sells them openly..
Here it comes! A bowl of yellow noodle with the meat and parts of the gel-like parts that is most treasured by soft shell turtle meat lovers. Cost RM 6/bowl.
You can have it with rice noodle too...this is my bowl..and guess what? I "chickened" out..I transferred all the meat and the other collagen look like stuffs to the rest of them who enjoys it. I settled with just eating the noodle and drinking the soup..
It's like a typical chinese herbal soup that smells and tasted quite similar to Bak Kut Teh but with a hint of a different smell (has to be the turtle smell!).
The chilli sauce that accompanied the bowl of noodles.
Will I come back for seconds? Nope.. I don't think so... I just hope I don't get nightmares about turtles!
To wash off the taste (and the "guilt") of having that bowl of noodle soup, walked over to a nearby Cendol stall.
Priced between RM 1.30 to RM 2.50, this cendol uses a different type of brown sugar.. not 'gula melaka" but I think it's "gula enau".
(But I still say the best cendol I've eaten is in Penang!! :P)
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