M’sian Discovers a Giant Petai in the Jungle… Netizens Warn Him About Eating It

By Charmaine Shaharin  •  20 Oct 2020 in News

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Every recipe has its own secret sauce or ingredient to make it taste better. In Malaysian cuisine, many dishes are incomplete without petai. For example, a sambal prawn dish without petai is not the same sans the bitter bean.

Recently, Twitter user, @kayy_azman shocked local petai lovers and the internet when he posted a pictures of a pod of petai beans he found in the jungle that were not twice, but thrice the size of our normal petai beans! Can you imagine that in a dish?

Kay himself said he never knew there was “XXXL” size petai out there.

 

Umur 23 tahun baru tahu petai ada size XXXL punya 😂😂😂
Haters gonna tell its fake. But yeah mmg real pic.twitter.com/mf2VRTKmRS

— KAYY AZMAN (@kayy_azman) October 16, 2020

When JUICE spoke to Kay, we asked about the origin of the giant petai, to which he simply replied that he found it in a forest but could not disclose the name of the woods due to poachers.

He also stated that he was surprised to find it, but did not try to eat it.

 

Ni video lagi real guys, sorry excited first time dalam hidup jumpa 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/G3xRQXpxVI

— KAYY AZMAN (@kayy_azman) October 16, 2020

This is not the first time giant petai beans have been found.

In 2013,  Aaron Ngu, a Kapit Photographic Society chairman, had found 2 pods of giant petai during a marathon run as reported by the Borneo Post Online.

Petai might be a nice to eat, but it also comes with a smelly aftermath. Following Kay’s tweet, many netizens pointed out that while it may look awesome, consuming it might come with some side-effects…

 

Ni kalau kentut bau neraka

— ☁⃤ (@nureenanis___) October 16, 2020

 

Kalau kencing kt toilet rumah ni, esok jabatan kimia datang sebb bau suspicious😭☝️

— SusKing👻 (@amrl_hqmii) October 16, 2020

 

Kalau yang saiz normal pun bau dia dah lain macam, kalau saiz mcm ni, korang makan kat Johor, silap silap sampai ke Perlis bau petai ni punya penangan.

— Anwar Ahmad 🇲🇾 (@anwarrrrahmad) October 16, 2020

In nature, petai trees do grow in forests but to find one that has grown this huge is rare. It’s great that Kay is doing his part by not disclosing the forest’s information so that it will be protected.

Also, just a reminder that it’s generally not advisable to eat fruits or vegetables that you find in the wild as there are lots of different species that look like the common ones we’re used to consuming, except they might put you on a trip that makes you poop out your nightmares.