Monday, January 2, 2012

Fajervarya cancrivora in The Bowl

    Soup is identical to cook vegetables or meat into a large skillet with additional broth and spices. There are different with this soup, so this soup is a soup or toad that is often called swike. Swike actually is Chinese cuisine, indeed swike using toad meat ingredients but today most people use the chicken to the material. Type of toad that is often used for rice paddies is a toads swike (Fajervarya cancrivora). This type is used because this toad does not have poison glands in their bodies.
     Toad is a type of rice that many live toads in the rice paddies, swamps, ditches and sewers, to the mangrove swamps. Fejervarya cancrivora scientific name, and in English is known as the marsh toad, rice-field toad or crab-eating toad; last name is given because it preys craze frog crab paddies (Lat. cancer crab, vorare eat, prey).The Javanese call it a green toad, because many of them are colored green. Name of other areas that include toads and bangkong china.
     Toads are small to rather large stature, stocky, with strong legs and muscular thighs are huge. Adult males about 60 mm and adult females about 70-80 mm; but the largest can be up to 120 mm SVL (snout to vent length, from snout to anus). Small specimens rather difficult to distinguish from the moor toad (F. limnocharis).Back brownish-colored mud, with dark blotches are not symmetrical. Sometimes there is a bright green moss on large specimens. Side of the body and groin with dark patches. Hands and feet are often streaky-streaked. Black striped lip.
    There are thin folds of skin extending over the back, similar to nodule lines or ridges. Feet with a full membrane pool to the ends of fingers, toes except the fourth. Metatarsal single nodule, located on the inside (the base of the first finger) feet, elongated shape.
     Toads are often found in marshy areas, especially near the man-made environment: the muddy garden, rice fields, water channels; but rather rare in the river. Also is the only kind of modern amphibian that can live in brackish water areas and mangrove forests.
    Most active in the dark and early morning, at noon this toad hiding behind grass or cracks in the embankment or cliff water channels, and suddenly jumped into the water when going trampled. At night, especially after the rain fell, the sound of toads calling male-female sound of the water's edge: ... dododododok .. dododok, with a fast rhythm. But instead of sounds together, male toads are inter-outs. Similar is the case with the stone toad (Limnonectes macrodon), this frog is often sought after to take her thighs are fat, to be used as cooking swike (Swie kee, chicken water) tionghoa delicious at the restaurant.
     Toad is widespread fields ranging from Indochina, Hainan, Malay Peninsula to the Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi and East Nusa. These toads also terintroduksi to Papua.
      Swike was delicious but we must remember that not too much to eat. Recent research suggests that in bone and meat containing tapeworm toad is the same thing with pork. If meat is not thoroughly cooked and is feared if the tapeworm eggs is not dead. When ingested would interfere with the digestive process because it hangs tapeworm in the small intestine and will absorb the juices of the food so the body becomes malnourished. We must also remember that many people out there who do not eat frog meat, then respect them.