Stink beans; smell of methane gas, bitter, amino .

[Cecil Lee]

1. This is called "petai" or scientific name is: Parkia speciosa

2. Each pod contains around 15 to 20 beans. The beans are bright green in colour and covered with a brownish membrane.

3. The beans have a peculiar smell. Some mistaken the smell for methane gas. As such some literally call it the "stink bean".

4. To any novice; it is bitter and due to the strong smell; the smell lingers in one's mouth after eating in quantities.

5. As this bean contains amino acids; it's strong smell can be detected in one's urine even after two days of consuming it. And please don't stand near-by to anyone who had given off "german gas" after eating it...

6. Some say that it helps to control diabetees.
7. Often, one can find worms embedded into some of the beans. Apparently, worms do love them also.
8. Most Indonesians are familiar with it. Recently, it has become very popular in Singapore especially with the Malays and the baba's.

[Cecil Lee]

These are the actual edible "seeds". Some even have partial "brown skin" still not peeled off...

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On 4/12/2011 1:23:52 PM, Anonymous wrote:
1. This is called "petai" or
scientific name is: Parkia
speciosa
2. Each pod contains around 15
to 20 beans. The beans are
bright green in colour and
covered with a brownish
membrane.
3. The beans have a peculiar
smell. Some mistaken the smell
for methane gas. As such some
literally call it the "stink
bean".
4. To any novice; it is bitter
and due to the strong smell;
the smell lingers in one's
mouth after eating in
quantities.
5. As this bean contains amino
acids; it's strong smell can
be detected in one's urine
even after two days of
consuming it. And please don't
stand near-by to anyone who
had given off "german gas"
after eating it...
6. Some say that it helps to
control diabetees.7. Often,
one can find worms embedded
into some of the beans.
Apparently, worms do love them
also.8. Most Indonesians are
familiar with it. Recently, it
has become very popular in
Singapore especially with the
Malays and the baba's.

[Cecil Lee]

Do you know that from 1965 to 1975, there was indeed a road named Jalan Petai.

This road was demolished in the 1980’s:-

[Cecil Lee]

Not so fresh at Choa Chu Kang

 

[Cecil Lee]

14 August 2022 - Hougang Central 

Can keep for sometime. As once peeled, sellers usually refrigerate them. And once each piece is exposed to moist, they quickly turn bad…

The disadvantage of the original form is that one has not only to peel and separate each piece from this "shell" but it is also a hassle to peel the brownish protective skin from each piece! Frankly, quite a tedious job...