: : Soy Sauce : :

After reading something like this, I’d rather stick to Kikkoman any day.

via Spoonfork (btw, Happy Gawai)

: : Soy Sauce : :

After reading something like this, I’d rather stick to Kikkoman any day.

via Spoonfork (btw, Happy Gawai)

: : Gawai : :

Went visiting last night to a collegue’s house. Had too much tuak @ rice wine as usual but it’s only once a year. Anyway, it’s always a fun time at her house with every one chit chatting until quite late and eating as well. With many cheers of ‘ahhhhhh-huuuuuuu!’ instead of Cheers. My collegue is a lovely hostess as well as her family. Some pictures of the food that was served.

A beautifully decorated cake showing a bag of rice and a traditional beaded choker. The details were just amazing. The cake was so attractive and eye-catching that no-one took a piece of it at all. As shown in the cake, it was courtesy of Hilton Hotel. Their bakery is seriously very good

Another Gawai-themed cake, this time showing the intricate designs usually found on wood carvings.

A lot of the children were looking at the golden-wrapped balls and suddenly realising that in the middle of a beautiful table arrangement, it was Ferrero Rocher dangling before their eyes! They also used small pineapple fruit as part of the decor as well as pitcher plants.

It was a nice night of meeting up with friends and their families whom I haven’t seen or mingled in a long while. I forgot how much fun it is just to sit down and make fun of each other.

Anyway, this is Gawai time. A time of good cheer, fun, laughter in the midst of all the tuak!

: : Potrait Illustration Maker : :

Cute no? Found the link from www.dymolove.com. Fun way to make a self-potrait.

: : Lemang ~ Iban Pulut : :

After travelling to the nearby mining town Bau to visit a friend, she gave me a piece of bamboo with lemang inside it. Lemang is glutinous rice cooked with santan @ coconut milk inside a piece of bamboo. Because of the length of the bamboo, it’s usually cooked under an open fire. Not that easy to do, it takes experience. Banana leaves are cut into strips and later rolled up to cover the entire inner surface of the bamboo, leaving the center part empty for the rice. The gluotinous rice is poured until it fills up about 1/2 of the bamboo. Later, a mixture of coconut milk and water is added in to cook the rice. Place over an open fire, the bamboo being supported at the top by a wooden frame.

Here is the piece of bamboo filled with lemang. Note that it was already cooked by the time I brought it back home. Granny immediately wanted to try it out.

Using a knife, she started to make some slits along the length of the bamboo. Luckily, the bamboo used is a young one so it was easy to cut. Young bamboo aren’t as thick as the older ones which can be half a centimer thick! This one was half as thick. Make two slits so as to make it easier to pry the bamboo open.

SuperGranny! Check out those abs!

Tada! The exposed lemang. The green wrapping is the banana leaf.

And, here is the lemang. It’s very red because it was made from the Iban Red Glutinous Rice. Tasted really nice. Goes extremely well with rendang or curry. Goes very well with satay as well.