Sambal Timun

My sisters insisted that I should not omit this old-fashioned side dish. It is hard to find this nowadays, let alone have the recipe for it. My mother always had this at the tok panjang during Chinese New Year, and I would avoid it because it included gizzards. Nonetheless, its absence at our table now signify that a previous generation of true Nonyas, like my mother, is fast disappearing and with it, some of the more traditional dishes.

My father taught me how to remove the bittern