: : All is revealed ~ 6 months late : :
Remember this?
As well as this mysterious rice?
Well, slow slow Wena is about to reveal the mysteries behind this meal. We’ll start off with the various vegetables.
Belachan is the taste of this meal. Belachan is a spicy prawn paste that is used in many South East Asian cooking and in this meal, it’s being cook with chillis and spinach. Added to that, all belachan do not taste the same. Different people make it with different proportions so some are spicier, some has a stronger smell, some has a stronger prawn taste and so forth. This one was particularly very nice. The belachan paste can be kept in the freezer for a long time – Granny has been known to keep it for more than a year.
Now this is an interesting meal. Timun dayak @ Iban Cucumber is a vegetable that is found in the wild jungles of Sarawak. Makes a great meal as the veggie is slightly crunchy and slightly sweetish as well. It’s not bitter at all.
Everyone got this one right. It’s squid curry with prawns added in. Yum.
Now this is the ingredient in the mysterious rice picture. It’s a type of fungus that grows on fallen trees and is known as Wood Ears in English. Or so my Sina’ tells me. First, it’s broken up into smaller pieces. Then, it’s soak and rinse in water a few times to remove the strong taste and cleaning too. Finally, fry them with rice to get a tasty local fried rice. Yum.
And there you have it folks. A nice meal at Cousin Garnet’s.
The final one is really interesting, dun think I had that before.
The mysterious rice look so geli.
Hi Wena,
Finally. I so want to come to Kuching to try all the food there. Looks so appetizing! =P
Your Food Dish is Similar to our Food in Iloilo City, Philippines
I noticed that your food is similar to our food in Jaro, Iloilo City like that variety of of fish that you fried and you have also vegetable with prawn paste which we call “apan-apan” made from fried or sauteed “tangkong”(Philippine version of spinach) with tomato/onion and garlic and with “bagoong” shrimp paste. The
similarities may be due to the fact that Malaysians settled in the Philippines and bring their culture , and ways of cooking and even language because when I saw an Amercan film translated into Malaysian the word “Ako”, “Ikaw”
and many words are also in our Ilonggo dialect.
Your Food Dish is Similar to our Food in Iloilo City, Philippines
I noticed that your food is similar to our food in Jaro, Iloilo City like that variety of of fish that you fried and you have also vegetable with prawn paste which we call “apan-apan” made from fried or sauteed “tangkong”(Philippine version of spinach) with tomato/onion and garlic and with “bagoong” shrimp paste. The
similarities may be due to the fact that Malaysians settled in the Philippines and bring their culture , and ways of cooking and even language because when I saw an Amercan film translated into Malaysian the word “Ako”, “Ikaw”
and many words are also in our Ilonggo dialect.