In the Land of the White Rajahs
Dec 5, 2006
Giant Centipedes, giant flowers, giant bat caves - Lawrence Millman finds all that and more in Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.
One morning in Sarawak I found myself wandering through the jungly extravagance of Gunung Gading National Park. The heat was formidable, the humidity even more so. Working together, they made me feel like I was at once drying up and drowning.
"...And in this supposedly dangerous part of the globe, the most dangerous behavior I ever encountered was, well, my own. Toward the beginning of the trip, I was chatting with some Bidayuh men about the catholicity of their diet (python, various insects, fermented wild boar, and so on) when one of them asked me if I'd like to try some smoked cat. I shook my head vigorously and took an involuntary step backward, whereupon my leg slipped into a crack between the bamboo-slatted floorboards of their longhouse; it took the men several minutes to extricate me.
This is a remote-control area, " one of the Bidayuh men informed me, his slightly uncertain English being a testimony to the presence of television in his longhouse. But it wasn't really that remote; his longhouse, Anna Rais, was about an hour by road from the bustle of Kuching.
Beware, we sarawakians eat everything with its back towards the sun...(well, almost anything...)
Showing posts with label Sarawak Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarawak Food. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Sarawak Laksa
source http://clareng.com/2007/08/25/sarawak-laksa/Mun ingat kat jalan patinggan, meliur wei...
geramnya nak makan laksa sarawak...
Manok Pansoh
Man, i miss manok pansoh, my missus's mother used to make once a month or whenever we came back for the weekend...yumm..
One of the best known Iban dishes is manok pansoh (ayam pansuh). Chicken pieces are cut and stuffed into the bambo together with other ingredients like mushrooms, lemongrass, tapioca leaves etc and cooked over an open fire - similar to the way lemang is cooked.
This natural way of cooking seals in the flavours and produces astonishingly tender chicken with a gravy perfumed with lemongrass and bamboo.
for pictures :http://headsteadi.com/index.php/2007/02/21/bamboo-chicken-the-bidayuh-style/ or http://www.mum-mum.info/2005/02/bamboo-chicken-theres-been-lot-of.html
One of the best known Iban dishes is manok pansoh (ayam pansuh). Chicken pieces are cut and stuffed into the bambo together with other ingredients like mushrooms, lemongrass, tapioca leaves etc and cooked over an open fire - similar to the way lemang is cooked.
This natural way of cooking seals in the flavours and produces astonishingly tender chicken with a gravy perfumed with lemongrass and bamboo.
for pictures :http://headsteadi.com/index.php/2007/02/21/bamboo-chicken-the-bidayuh-style/ or http://www.mum-mum.info/2005/02/bamboo-chicken-theres-been-lot-of.html
Monday, November 19, 2007
Kueh Chap!!!!!
http://www.deliciousasianfood.com/2007/08/02/kueh-chap/Kueh chap......
Nyaman wei... one of the things that i miss, not that here cannot find, not same ma...
Friday, November 16, 2007
I miss kampua mee and kolo mee



Pictures sourced from http://4.bp.blogspot.com/ and http://makankings.blogspot.com/
I really miss eating those, here the next best thing is wantan mee... ok..close enough..
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