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Sarawak Food: Bidayuh Grilled Chicken

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  Sarawak Food: Bidayuh Grilled Chicken Bidayuh Grilled Chicken Grilled chicken Bidayuh usually available during Gawai Dayak celebration. Chicken will be cooked using firewood (fire). Gawai Dayak is celebrated by the Dayaks in Sarawak and West Kalimantan, which is an official public holiday on May 31 and June 1 of each year in Sarawak, Malaysia. It is both a religious and social occasion. The mode response varies from place to place. Preparation starts early. In fact, after the longhouse agreed to hold a big celebration, Dayaks may need to grow rice in the fields next to each other and to implement labor exchange called "bedurok" which aims to ensure getting rice sufficient by the end of the year in readiness for the big feast. On Eve devices, people will take consolation, aping, palm or coconut tree shoots mostly for making soup with meat and vegetables accumulate such as hiding wild ferns, Fiddlehead fern, bamboo shoots, cassava leaves and round eggplant Dayak from nearby

Sarawak Traditional Food: Chicken Pansuh (Bamboo Steam)

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Sarawak Traditional Food: Chicken Pansoh (Bamboo Steam) Sarawak Traditional Dishes, Chicken Pansoh (cooked in bamboo) When I visited an old friend's house during the Gawai Dayak festival last year, I have been served with chicken cooked in bamboo called manok pansoh by locals. T ime to enjoy the cuisine was first bribe in the mouth, the first word that comes from my mouth is wow! how delicious the food is.  So, lets take a look the secret of this recipe. Ingredients : 1. Meat (Chicken, catfish, ) 2. Garlic (pounded rough) 3. Shallot (pounded fine) 4. Ginger (pounded) 5. Turmeric Leaves (cut abt 5-10mm width) 6. Lemongrass (pounded) 7. Salt 8. Cassava/Tapioca Leaves 9. Young bamboo Optional Ingredient : 1. Turmeric stump 2. Tepus/tipuk 3. MSG 4. Fermented durian (tempoyak) 5. Black pepper 6. Bird's eye chillis 7. Young Galangal (sliced) 8. Bungkang leaf Cooking method : 1. Before using the bamboo, fill it with water for 1/2-1 hour to clean the inside, and encourage the water to