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Cincalok? What’s that? Definition here. I have always liked cincalok, reminds me of the old days when mum will mix it with lime juice and onions, as a sauce to eat with rice or sometimes cooked with egg or chicken.

Wifey went to Malacca lately and came back with a bottle of cincalok. I actually have another bottle which was given to me during my NLDP training in Malacca last year. We rarely eat rice at home, so there is little chance to eat cincalok in that manner.

We had some rice on Thursday night and I decided to open up the bottle of cincalok. I took out my Simpsons bottle opener from the top drawer of the kitchen counter, left the drawer open, and proceeded to open up the bottle of cincalok.

HISSSSSSSSSSS… the mixture of tiny prawns and brine spurt out and hit the top of the counter and a good percent of it landed IN the drawer as well - messing up all the clean and dry cutlery. AUGH! I had barely opened a crack. Damn it!

That’s not the end of it.

I brought it over to the kitchen sink to open it fully. It was bubbling very slightly but I was totally not expecting what happened next. The cincalok spurt out in FULL FORCE… more so than a well shaken can of soda. It hit me full in the face, got into my hair, ended up EVERYWHERE including the ceiling and the CLEAN clothes on the bamboo behind and above me. AUGH!

I was just dumbfounded. Shocked. The cincalok was EVERYWHERE and the whole kitchen stank of it. Yes it is a little pungent…  I didn’t know where to start (to clean the kitchen) and my skin was starting to itch much due to the cincalok on it. AUGH!

All in all I took 2 hours to clean up. And the smell is still lingering in the kitchen like a spurned lover.

So well, photos speak volumes. Go ahead, laugh if you are already not. But I kid you not - if you really hate someone, buy him/her a bottle of Tan Kim Hock cincalok. Sure I guess I can’t really blame the company for this incident but I really don’t know what led to this.

Next time you open a glass bottle of cincalok… just be careful.