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 My kind of food! I always carry a minimum of 3 liters of water with me when I hit the jungle. Doesn’t matter if it is just a day trip, I drink loads. As for food, I usually buy something like nasi lemak, cake (‘kuih’) and tapau into the jungle. Other food stuff already in the minimum kit are a few sachets of drinks and soups.  E’kak stacked together with split bamboos ‘E’kak’ is a container, made of bamboo is used by the Bidayuhs in Semban to keep their smoked food (game meat usually) for months, at times up to more than a year. Here, local guide Glen lets me have a closer look at the ‘E’kak’. Continue reading ‘E’kak’ the bamboo container that holds food for months  Found these while walking in the jungle near KL We were walking Sox in the bush one weekend when we stumbled upon what looked like wild chestnuts (berangan liar) on the forest floor. I looked up and the trees are all rather tall. Scattered around are the fruits, some still in the pods. I have seen chestnuts fruits in Malaysian jungle before but these ones do not have spiny shells. Continue reading Malaysian wild chestnut (berangan liar) maybe?  An opportunity to test out if I can really get water from a banana tree Some survival books talk about getting drinking water from a banana tree trunk in a survival situation. Though I rarely see any banana trees in the jungle, I reckon it would be a cool thing to try. So, with a banana tree to be chopped down, I put this ‘survival tip’ to the test.  Many many clam shells at the water edges Ah!…clams…but this time around, they are fresh water clams. I believe the locals around Sungai Perak calls them Kepah. After a short ‘test run’ on our kayaks on day one, I decided I would try to look for these bivalves. At the water edges, I can see many of the shells lay open (dead ones), so there must be some live ones around. I was right. Continue reading Fresh water kepah – clams…tasting of local wild food? Sungai Perak Part III  The herbal chicken Its been a while since we been kayaking anywhere. So, with plans made as early as two months before, we headed to Sungai Perak for a kayaking adventure.On the way there, we decided to stop and try the famous Kampar ‘Chicken in Bread’ at a restaurant called Yau Kee. How did we know which restaurant to go to? We don’t, the GPS did! Continue reading Yau Kee chicken in bread at Kampar-Sungai Perak kayaking trip part I  Never felt more at home in a stranger’s house The hospitality of the Bidayuhs in Semban is overwhelming. They shared with us the bountiful produce of their land, made sure we saw & experience all the things we wanted to and even had the doors of their home open for us to spend the nights. We totally enjoyed our visit to their village. It was also our first encounter with the Bidayuh’s traditional bamboo smoke pipe, Tepui and fermented pork called Kersam (or Kersem)  ‘No nails’ step ladder into the villager’s hut We were ready to head back when some of the Kenip villagers asked us to join them for lunch. This ‘detour’ gave me a firsthand experience with the Semai’s hill rice, blow pipe and traditional fire starter.  Our guides harvested the palm heart for the group’s dinner I have heard a lot about harvesting the heart of palm, locally known as ‘Umbut’ as jungle food. This umbut has often been listed as one of the survival food in the jungle. In my years of traveling, I have not come across this Umbut, up until recently. During the trip to Sarawak in August 2009, I had my first encounter with Umbut. Continue reading Palm heart or ‘Umbut’ as jungle food; Lessons from a Sarawak jungle trip  My first encounter with the Miri wild durian I got my first taste of wild durian and Mee ‘Kolok’ or simply Mee ‘Kolo’ in Miri. Both of these foods are familiar to me yet uniquely different. I am beginning to love this town even more now. A Sarawak jungle food and local delicacy all in one evening. Awesome! Continue reading Wild durian and Kolok/Kolo mee of Miri; A trip to Sarawak’s jungle Pt. II |
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