Friends often asked me where to find game meat (wildlife) restaurants in Johor. I don’t know any until I stumbled upon Sun Swee restaurant in Kulai.
Game meat restaurants are becoming scarce in
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I asked the towkay to recommend a dish and he suggested young boar stew.
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| Stewed wild boar meat RM10 |
When it arrived, the dish looked pretty ordinary – just like regular pork stewed in gravy made with mainly fermented black bean paste. It even tasted a lot like domesticated pork except that there was little, if any, fat and the fibres felt slightly grainier. The cubes of boar meat were stewed with lots of slices and slivers of ginger. There was also plenty of garlic. It was obvious that a lot of attention was put into getting rid of any gamey taste which is characteristic of game meat.
I mentioned to the boss that the dish tasted little different from the usual pork meat. The boss explained with some pride that his dishes do not have that gamey taste. He told me that they use only young boar weighing 10-plus kilograms as older boars have a gamey taste.
It seemed to me that the game meat restaurants appealed only to a certain segment of mainly middle aged clientele. To keep their businesses going, the restaurants promote the traditional beliefs about the health benefits of game meat and they also make their dishes taste more like those of ordinary restaurants.
For those with an adventurous palate and who are game to try wildlife, now you know where J
Restaurant name: Sun Swee Restaurant
Address: 21-1, Main Road, Kulai Besar, Kulai, Johor
Hours: Noon to 11:00pm (closed on Thurs)
Non Halal
Date visited: 2 May 2012
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