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Kelabit Highlands - Food and drink; List with some info and photos.
Topic Started: Mar 18 2008, 08:53 AM (85 Views)
Richard Howard
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Food and Drink available in The Kelabit Highlands
The majority of food is grown and cultivated in the Kelabit highlands either wild, or in gardens and allotments. There are some items brought in such as tinned meat, most tea, coffee, sugar, Milo, Hot chocolate etc.

examples of food dishes

  • Fried rice
  • Stir fried veg
  • Boiled rice
  • Boiled veg
  • Meat/veg/fish stews
  • Meat/veg/fish soups
  • Meat/veg/fish/fruit curry
  • Mixed fruit
  • Boiled bamboo
  • Boiled Palm Heart
  • Noodles with fried egg on top
Drink

HOT DRINKS

  • Coffee
  • Rice Coffee- Roast and ground rice coffee. I am going to experiment with this mainly Indonesian drink.
  • Tea - Many varieties
  • Fruit Tea - Many varieties
  • Herbal Tea - Many varieties
  • Hot Chocolate
COLD DRINKS

  • Purified Water
  • Milo - a milk type drink from Nestle
  • Cool Tea - Many varieties
  • Cool Coffee - many varieties
  • Fruit juice - Many Varieties
  • Fruit Smoothies - Many varieties


Food

VEGETABLES

  • beans - Many varieties including 4-angle beans!
  • Potatoes
  • Carrots
  • Squash
  • Aborigine
  • Pea Aborigine - tiny pea-sized aubogines commonly used in Thai cooking.
  • Chilli peppers - Many varieties from very how with a gorgeous taste to mild and plain.


SHOOTS

  • Jungle Fern - A common and very tasty fern shoot. Served boiled or fried.
  • Bamboo Shoot


FRUIT

  • Fig
  • Cinnamon
  • Berries (several varieties)
  • Mango
  • Passion fruit
  • Orange
  • Lime
  • Lemon
  • Mango
  • Papaya
  • Pineapple - Another Treasured food of the Kelabit Highlands. Growing conditions are perfect fro the juiciest, sweetest pineapple you will ever taste. Also a Pineapple curry which is a bit like sweet and sour curry and is much nicer than it may sound!
  • Bananas (normal and extra-small) - I personally think the small ones to be the best. These are the ones growing in our garden there and taster exceedingly bananary.
  • Coconut


SEED/GRAIN

  • Bario Rice - Famously perfect rice around Asia. As it can only be grown to this quality in the Kelabit Highlands there is nowhere near enough for it to be internationally available. Some specialist stores around the world may stock it or source it for a very high price! Similar to Thai Long Grain in flavour.
  • Glutinous Rice (Sticky Rice) - At Gems Lodge this will be in a doughnut or wrapped in a leaf and is sweet and tasty like sticky, sweet version of rice pudding.


MEAT

  • Chicken - Usually wings brought in from Miri. Chickens are raised there though
  • Fish - locally farmed, wild caught or from Miri.
  • Anchovies (Or similar) used is some cooking for the salty taste. Sometimes a small fish is on a side plate all brown and salty and is nice mixed into your rice dish.
  • Spam (or similar) - Used in some fried rice dished and is nice cooked like this!
  • Buffalo - Usually eaten at ceremonies and other large gatherings.
  • Mouse Deer - Small and tender tasty steak, but little meat.
  • Barking Deer - Reasonable meat, like average steak.
  • Sambar Deer - Large and plenty of meat but a little tough.
  • Wild Boar - The crème de le crème of pork. Amazing flavour. Wild boar eat such variety that they have the most amazing 'game' flavour. The favourite of most Kelabit people and a must for our future breeding projects in Wildlife Camp.


BAKING

  • Buns
  • Bread
  • Cakes
  • Doughnuts



OTHERS

  • Palm Heart
  • Orchid
  • Banana flower (literally!)
  • Mushrooms (several types)
  • Eggs (free-range chicken)
  • Grub - Yes, like all jungles, there are a few edible grubs. Kelatang being the most favoured and expensive. I may taste this one day, i will definitely try breeding these.
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