GEORGE TOWN: A food stall operator made a surprise find of a human face imprinted on the base of a bamboo shoot that he was about to cook.Mohd Asri Hamid of Sungai Burung, Balik Pulau, found the “face” when he was about to make a special spicy bamboo shoot dish for his customers on Tuesday night.
The shoot was one of two he had bought from a villager in Sungai Burung on Monday evening. “I did not notice anything special about the shoot when I took it home. In fact, I cut one of the shoots that night but as I was about to do the same to the second one, something stopped me from doing it,” he said.
Mohd Asri looking at the bamboo shoot with the imprint of a human face at its base. He was about to make a dish out of it, but decided not to and keep the shoot now.
Mohd Asri said he was amazed to discover the human face. ”It has a face, two eyes - one open and the other closed - a nose and the shape of a mouth.”
Mohd Asri said he also heard “weird noises” of children playing and crying near his house on Monday night although his wife and three children were away in Yan, Kedah.
He said his aunt who lives next door also heard the same things.
Mohd Asri has now decided to keep the bamboo shoot. Link: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/5/nation/21450633&sec=nation
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