Festival tomorrow, so it was time again to stock up on pork. Two professional butchers come and do this, humanely slaughtering the animal (the sisters would have it no other way).
To keep the blood from getting in the way, the carcass is constantly washed with water. To take out the organs, the men reach in and pull with all their might.
The guts are carefully taken out and separated so that they can be be prepared for meals. They are washed in the kitchen and put into plastics bags and then either refrigerated or frozen.
Quang (left) and Can (right) help with carving the large pieces into smaller pieces.
What do we make from pigs that everyone loves? Yes, boys and girls, bacon. The good sisters are carving up the soon-to-be-frying bacon.
And here we are a few hours later at lunch. Now we have on the the table both intestine (white) and heart (red/brown). The Circle of Life...well, not actually a circle because it kind of stops with us. So maybe the Great Line of Life, or something like that.
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