Sarawakian Local Delights : Deer Meat

Hunting story.

A Lone Hunter and his Hilux.

It was a good day of hunting as the hunter caught a deer in a jungle traversed by plantation roads.

As he cleaned his game, and got ready to cook some food, some lucky passers by chanced upon him by the river for a bath.

The smoke from the fire and the aroma of cooking lemon grass and deer meat in a bamboo stem had already alerted the strangers.

This could be just an ordinary and frequent meet up by the river pebble beach after a long trek in the jungle. After a bath in the cool clean river , the trekkers and hunter were ready for a good meal.

It is amazing that the freshly caught deer can be cleaned and a portion can be ready for cooking by the riverside. The hunter can salt the rest of the deer meat for his family at home.

A pebbly river side bank is the best place for an evening picnic with fresh paku (plucked along the way) cooked over a wood fire, and deer meat cooked in a bamboo stem (also cut along the way) with just lemon grass as an ingredient to give it a good aroma. The soya sauce, which a hunter often carries in his basket comes useful.

This is a hunter's life in the jungle of Sarawak if his luck holds and a deer happens to come within view of his gun.

The hunter if he hunts alone may stay another day by the river side and wait for another game  at night and return home the next day with packets of salted deer meat.....with his faithful four wheel drive.