Delicious sates... but beware of their contents or eat them warm!
This story
was famous many years ago right after the completion of the Gerik-Jeli Highway
in early 80’s. The incident said to occur on a section of road exiting the
highway heading to Jeli town, Kelantan.
Not long
after the opening of the highway, someone setup a small stall selling sates.
This stall only operates after dark and it was quite famous of that time as the
sates sold were big, fat and juicy. Most of all, the sates were quite cheap for
that time. So not long after the opening, it has attracted many customers far
and near.
There is a
set of strange rules by the stall owner however. I.e. anyone who wished to
enjoy his cheap sates must consume the sates in situ and while the sates were
still hot. Well, no one really objected to the rules since most of the
customers were travelers and they have no intention to take away those sates
too.
Having said
that, one of the customers, Rizal had ordered a little too many sates at one
time and he figured that it was a waste to discard those unconsumed sates on
the table; furthermore he has paid for the sates. So, Rizal quietly tugged some
sates inside a food container to bring back with him to enjoy later. After
Rizal reached home, he put the sates in his fridge just to preserve them for
further consumption since it was quite late and all his family members were
sleeping.
The next
morning, Rizal asked his wife, Rose to retrieve the sates from the fridge and
to warm them up. As soon as Rose retrieved the food container and opened the
cover, she shouted in fright and the container dropped onto the floor along
with its contents.
Well,
everyone rushed to Rose and only found dead frogs, worms and small snakes
scattered onto the floor. At the same time, Rizal felt stomach ache and vomited
out some stingy yellowish water and animal remains…
Consequently
the duo was sent to the district hospital for treatment. The doc once suspected
Rizal was being forced to consume those filthy stuffs for some reasons but no
amount of explanations could make the doc believe it was just the ‘sates’...
After Rizal
and Rose were finally being discharged from the hospital, they returned to the
stall daytime but to find no traces of stall being built. The only thing they
could find was an old grave located about 10 feet away.
No one sees
the stall again at night since the incident. Perhaps the stall owner has
discovered that someone has broken the taboo by taking away the sates? Or
perhaps he has moved to elsewhere to continue his ‘business’…
So, just a
word of caution when you consume those delicious sates…
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