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Mukah folk flock to wet market for umai fix

KUCHING: Umai, a traditional exotic native dish of the Melanau, is popular not only in Mukah – home to the Melanau community – but also statewide. At times demand can outstrip supply but at the moment supply is considered normal even though the popular ikan empirang used to prepare the dish is said to be […]

Taste of Melanau food in Miri

If you yearn for Melanau food while in Miri City, you can contact Selihah Tarbi, 42, owner of Selihah Cafe & Catering. The Melanau food she usually sells includes linut or ambuyat, tumpik (coconut and sago lemantak), umai, tebaloi and selisih. Special food items during this Ramadan are ketupat, tumpik, kelupi and grilled glutinous rice. […]

Sago and forest grubs, anyone?

MUKAH:  Sago grubs, locally known as se’iet and forest grubs, known as lelamas are among some of highly sought Melanau exotic delicacies. Sago grubs are found in rotting sago pith and sago stumps. They can also be easily found on sago farms after the logs have been harvested. For the last one or two decades, […]

Try Mukah’s tasty ‘siet sisam’ dish

MUKAH: Siet sisam (chopped sago worms or ulat mulong), a traditional Melanau dish that was very famous in the past, is rarely found today. Usually, it is now only produced if there is a need. Recalling his memories, Kampung Tellian Daya resident Selahat Sera said the process to prepare siet sisam is actually very simple and easy. “The palms […]