Then Lipok burned all the little hairs and things off by rotating the chicken over the stove. After that part, he cut open the chicken and started removing the intestines and different things. There were only two parts he threw away. One part inside the chicken that collects rice (that's what they feed the chickens) and one piece that was inside the head, the rest of the head went into the curry, along with everything else. One of the most interesting parts was when he cleaned out the stomach. He flipped over one part and all of the undigested/digesting food was inside and it was bright yellow. He cleaned that out and put the actual stomach along with all of the other parts to be cleaned.
Then he just started cutting the chicken into pieces to be cooked. It was so odd, because just a few minutes ago we had a living chicken, making real loud noises, and now it was fully cut up and being prepared for cooking. I was blown away by how fast he did everything and how well he knew every organ and inner working of the chicken. He told us that he had grown up from a young age killing and cooking chickens and everything else. He did a really good job. I guess for many people it's real normal, but for Bev and I, we were in awe of the whole process, because we grew up buying chicken in clean packages at the store.
