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Pig Trotters in Vinegar

I know this is not a soup recipe but it is something I promised you. Actually I learnt this when I went home to my parents' place in September. And after that I went travelling for business (first to Kerala, India and then to Singapore ) so I didn't manage to share the recipe. The cool part is, I took snapshots of the process so you can see how easy the entire process is. My mother is a good cook (but then again everyone says this of their own moms). My mom makes very good Nyonya kuih like kuih talam, kuih lapis, abok-abok, onde-onde and kuih seri muka. She used to supply to school canteens and she stopped doing it when I reach secondary school as she found the work tiring. My sisters and I used to help her pinch the edges of curry puffs - we used to do this while watching Incredible Hulk on TV! Back in those days (in the 1980s), the only channels we had were TV1 (RTM1) and TV2 (RTM2) and the only good shows were series like Incredible Hulk. Anyway, my mom knows tha