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SARAWAK JUNCTION: 10 MAKANAN TRADISI DI SARAWAK - Blog Makanan di Sarawak

SARAWAK JUNCTION: 10 <b><b>MAKANAN TRADISI DI SARAWAK</b></b> - Blog Makanan di Sarawak


SARAWAK JUNCTION: 10 <b><b>MAKANAN TRADISI DI SARAWAK</b></b>

Posted: 13 Aug 2014 11:25 PM PDT

Top UK 'Think Tank' Staged BN's Latest PR Stunt On Palm Oil – INVESTIGATION
Alfred Jabu flew out Sarawakians to dress up as grateful "rural folk" and parade at the IEA as people who had benefitted from SALCRA

Alfred Jabu flew out Sarawakians to dress up as grateful "rural folk" and parade at the IEA as people who had benefitted from SALCRA

The prominent London-based free market 'think tank', the Institute of Economic Affairs, has been put in an embarrassing position over an apparent conflict of interest, thanks to remarks by Sarawak's Deputy Chief Minister, Alfred Jabu.

Jabu, in a speech earlier this week, boasted about his "world-wide acknowledgement" by the Institute, thanks to being granted a platform in January, at the launch of a supposedly independent report on palm oil, commissioned by the IEA.

Sarawak Report has now investigated the matter and uncovered compromising links between the on-going PR campaigns sponsored by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council and this IEA report.

The report, entitled  reflects the arguments of the MPOC and praises the Malaysian palm oil industry, claiming it "has a good record with regards to sustainability":

 "Certainly, some loss of forest and wildlife habitat has occurred as a result of the expansion of agriculture, including oil palm, in Malaysia, but the extent of this loss appears to have been exaggerated. The majority of palm oil plantations are located on the Malaysian mainland peninsula – nowhere near the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo where the Borneo orang-utans are to be found. Over 50 per cent of Malaysia's land area remains under forest cover and many areas are given full protection against logging"[IEA Report, October 2013]

Massive deforestation - the reality of Sarawak's oil palm industry

Massive deforestation – the reality of Sarawak's oil palm industry

The author of the report, which clearly defies all the known evidence about this most rapidly deforested area on the planet, is a member of the Institute's own Editorial Board, Keith Boyfield, who told Sarawak Report that the entire report was commissioned by the IEA, which published it as a 'discussion paper'.

Yet Boyfield, who operates his own consultancy, has enjoyed two recent trips to Sarawak, funded by none other than the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC).

Not only that, it turns out that Boyfield was accompanied on at least one of these occasions by senior staff of the IEA, including the chief operating officer, Glynn Brailsford, who also enjoyed the hospitality of the MOPC.

And their chief host on these trips?  None other than Boyfield's fellow panellist at the IEA event, Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu, the Chairman of the controversial SALCRA (Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority)!

Keith's Malaysian Government host Alfred Jabu enjoying a platform at the IEA with the launch of its research on palm oil

Keith's Malaysian Government host Alfred Jabu enjoying a platform at the IEA with the launch of its 'research paper' on palm oil

Only natural!

Boyfield has confirmed to Sarawak Report that his trip was funded by the Malaysian Government:

"We got an invitation from the Malaysian Government….They [the MPOC] certainly were responsible for organising some of it. That was the background. The study was commissioned by the IEA"

When informed that there have been a number of PR drives of this nature by the MPOC, Boyfield appeared to contradict the IEA's ethical guidelines, which bann government sponsorship and tied funding, saying:

"Well that's only natural!"

He also confirmed he was hosted and escorted by SALCRA to their own plantations. SALCRA has forced thousands of native customary land owners into statutory 'joint ventures' with the state government to grow palm oil with highly controversial outcomes.

The trip in April 2012 was variously described in Sarawak's government controlled media as a "press trip" (Borneo Post), a trip of "international experts" (Star) and as "a visit by an 8 member delegation of the IEA" (Sarawak Monitor)

Hearing SALCRA's side of the story - but was this genuine or "tied" research?

Hearing SALCRA's side of the story – but was this genuine or "tied" research? [The Star Archive]

 Rock solid rules on 'tied funding'

These visits and links to the Malaysian Palm Oil Council by the author of the report and "fellow" of the IEA clearly breech the purpose of the Institute's own "rock solid rules" against any "tied funding" to research or government sponsorship, as explained by a spokeswoman for the Institute this week:

"in terms of our funding we don't take any tied money, so the paper would have been commissioned purely on the merit of the work that is in it.  And again we don't accept any money from government or government agencies" 

Responding to our queries, the spokeswoman admitted that given the clear involvement of the MPOC and Jabu in Boyfield's research and the IEA's own compromising links, "it is a very complex and inter-twined matter".

She added "I understand obviously that it may be the case that the conclusions in Keith's paper aren't necessarily a true reflection of how things are, and that may well be to do with a number of other factors, but in terms of the relations we have, we did not take any tied money".

Posing as representatives of SALCRO "smallholders" at the IEA

Posing as representatives of SALCRO "smallholders" at the IEA

It is a weak position to take and the Institute's will have been further embarrassed by the fact that Jabu and the Malaysian Palm Oil Council have not hesitated to extract maximum positive PR from both the IEA visits to Borneo and the resulting return trip to London to launch the IEA's positive report on Malaysia's record.

'Native smallholders' flown to the UK

To take advantage of the IEA event the MPOC flew over three "Sarawak smallholders" to join Alfred Jabu on stage.

The MPOC named the trio on their promotional 'faces of palm oil' Facebook page, as Thomas Lamit, Rebecca Lambet and Briku Busang.

All three dressed up in tribal costume for the evening, in order to present themselves to the British onlookers as delighted native beneficiaries of the SALCRA 'joint venture' programmes.

Later, the same trio dressed in ordinary clothes, posed outside the Houses of Parliament to record a You Tube video, in which they took turns to condemn NGOs and to boast how they now have new homes and cars, thanks to oil palm and SALCRA.

This video, entitled 'Human Faces of Palm Oil', was sponsored by SALCRA and the MPOC.  In it the lead speaker claims, untruthfully, that "palm oil cultivation in Sarawak is done on land already cleared long ago, so there is no destruction of forest".

Apologists for SALCRA attacking NGOs in London

Malaysian Government funded this "smallholder's" trip to the UK to attend the IEA event and produce promotional material on oil palm

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In the same video Rebecca Lambet describes her own family's rich new lifestyle, including multiple car ownership.

These are circumstances that bear little relation to the reality of life for most dirt poor Dayaks living on SALCRA plantations.

Furthermore, these PR friendly "smallholders'" are noticeably advanced English-speakers, considering they are supposed to be rural folk.

Despite the IEA's attempt to distance themselves from "tied funding" these 'faces of palm oil' clearly had their trip funded by the Malaysian public.

PR dividends for the Malaysian Oil Palm Industry 

It is therefore clear is that Keith Boyfeild and his IEA event have just provided the latest platform for yet another publicly funded publicity stunt by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council in their on-going 'greenwash campaign' promoting palm oil.

And the MPOC generated publicity around Boyfield's Sarawak visits wholly undermines any attempts by the IEA to claim distance or objectivity for their research.

Boyfield and Jabu on his 'press trip' in 2012. He lavished praise to the Sarawak media about BN's record in Sarawak and attacked foreign criticism about human rights and the environment.

Boyfield (3rd left) and Jabu on his 'press trip' in 2012. In the article he lavished praise on BN's record in Sarawak, saying it was time to "correct misperceptions in western countries"

For example, during his MPOC funded visit in 2012, Boyfield was quoted extensively by the KTS-owned Borneo Post (below), who portrayed him as a senior international journalist, relentlessly praising the Sarawak state government and its record on logging, oil palm and the environment:

"The state government should do more to promote the positive things it has been doing with regards to nature conservation to correct misperceptions, especially among western countries…Keith Boyfield, the spokesperson for a delegation of foreign media to the state, said…

Sarawak oil palm expert, thanks to his week long trip?

Sarawak oil palm expert, thanks to his week long trip?

He opined that at the moment Sarawak had been too modest in its campaign to tell the world about its conservation efforts, and because of that it had been subjected to criticisms particularly in Britain and Europe about the way oil palm plantations were being developed here…

"Most of the things we hear about are always threats to the habitats and also constant theme of the elimination of mangrove swamps and rainforests when in actual fact that doesn't appear to be the case," he said...

Boyfield, who is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other leading newspapers and journals including Financial Centres International, said before this there had been a lot of criticisms in Great Britain and Europe about the way oil palm plantations were being developed in Malaysia and Indonesia…

"There also have been sort of view from people in Britain that Malaysians or the people of Sarawak are cutting down all the virgin rainforests and eliminating the habitats for mammals like orang utans so that they could grow oil palm," he noted.

He explained that the purpose of the delegation was basically to see with their own eyes whether some of the claims and accusations made in the western media corresponded to reality, saying what they discovered proved that those reports were untrue."[Borneo Post 28/4/12]

Boyfield's quoted opinions on these matters appear to have been furnished by his week long visit, hosted by SALCRA and being shown round SALCRA plantations by Alfred Jabu. They contradict widely known facts and betray a lack of genuine investigation on the ground.

Indeed his own reports on Twitter at the time focused less on the conditions in dirt poor Dayak longhouses and more on his sponsored accommodation in the Taib family's Hilton Hotel!

Report from the ground? - excited tweets from Boyfield about his luxury experience of Sarawak.

Report from the ground? – excited tweets from Boyfield about his luxury experience of Sarawak in Kuching's Hilton

A bit of time in the interior of Sarawak would surely have informed Mr Boyfield a little better, because according more quotes in the Borneo Post, he then came out with the astonishing claim that the state's oil palm plantations were merely conversions from the traditional rubber plantations and that the virgin jungle remains intact!

"This is because from what we see so far is it appeared that your palm oil plantations have actually switched from other commodities such as rubber and now you have been cultivating palm oil instead of other commodities.

"It is not so much of you cutting down lots of primary rainforest as claimed by some western media," he [Boyfield] commented [Borneo Post]

Fact check for Keith Boyfield

These remarks by Boyfield were repeated throughout the Sarawak media at the time and also later when the IEA report was produced.

One widely disseminated article was entitled "British experts say criticisms from foreign NGOs on environment are exaggerated":

British experts say criticisms from foreign NGOs on environment are exaggerated

"The Institute of Economic Appeal (IEA) has produced a report entitled "Commercial Agriculture: Is It A Cure Or A Curse, Malaysian and African Experience Constructed" by Keith Boyfield.  

The report highlights the roles played by SALCRA in spearheading a move to develop native customary right land into commercial plantation….. This very favorable report was produced by The Institute of Economic Appeal an Independent Body following a visit by its 8-member delegation to Sarawak sometime in April 2012, 

During the visit, members of the delegation led by Mr. Keith Boyfield had dialogue sessions and discussions with members of local business community, representatives of statutory bodies and general public including participants in the land development schemes. 

They visited Palm Oil Plantation at Sungai Stengang in Stungkur, conducted interviews with many SALCRA scheme participants and visited Palm Oil Mill. After visiting Sarawak they visited Peninsular Malaysia for the same purpose.

Great PR material for BN's cyber-bloggers

Great PR material for BN's cyber-bloggers

To the contrary, we suggest it is time that Boyfield shook off the MOPC, took a more independent visit and checked his facts.

Because, this expert of one week was soon engaging in public debates and making his ignorance plain – claiming for example that "property rights are pretty well respected in Malaysia" and that the concept of Land Grabs is too "emotive" and "nuanced" with respect to the oil palm debate.

Academic tour or the usual tourist junket courtesy of the Sarawak government ?

Academic tour or the usual tourist junket courtesy of the Sarawak government ?

Mr Boyfield should contact Sarawak's expert native land rights lawyers, who have seen numerous court victories ignored by the state government and outfits like SALCRA, and think again.

No immigrant workers?

Boyfield has also claimed that during his 'academic visit' to Sarawak he observed that everyone he met working on oil palm plantations was a local person and not a migrant worker! 

"In Sarawak it strikes me because traditionally its been a much poorer part of Malaysia than the peninsula they're able to recruit locally". 

Mr Boyfield should contact any of the grassroots indigenous groups, who could tell him of the major problem with respect to the vast immigrant labour force in Sarawak and the uneconomic wages for local people, even on their own SALCRA "smallholdings", and then speak again.

Great dividends from SALCRA?

In yet another article, promoting his concept that the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry should be encouraged to expand into Africa for the benefit of the world poor, Boyfield even plays the SALCRA 'dividend game', ie spouting big figures without finishing the maths:

"In Sarawak, standards of living have been transformed by commercial agri-business… Farmers associated with SALCRA, a group set up to develop native land rights in Sarawak, have earned $163m individend payments since 1985″ [Keith Boyfield, The Enquirer, Liberia]

Given Boyfield himself acknowledges that there are around 22,000 SALCRA members, this sum in fact calculates over the 30 year period to about $200 a year per family, in return for the sacrifice of their rightful native lands and forests to the government controlled 'joint ventures', managed by Alfred Jabu.

World's worst CEO? Ordinary shareholders have gained little from SALCRA - only BN cronies and himself have profited

World's worst CEO? Ordinary shareholders have gained little from SALCRA – only BN cronies and himself have profited

As everyone in Sarawak knows, the smallholders from SALCRA have received virtually nothing in return for the surrender of their lands and that Jabu's dividends have been paltry compared to the rich profits made by privately run oil palm ventures.

Neither did these native customary rights land owners receive one ringgit from the huge sums raised out of logging the timber from their lands to make way for the SALCRA palm oil plantations (less than 5% of virgin forest remains in Sarawak – just another fact check for Mr Boyfield).

Only government ministers, like Alfred Jabu and their cronies, have raked in hundreds of millions from the land grab policies of the State of Sarawak.  The Dayak remain as poor as ever.

Attacking NGOs

MPOC was about to hire FBC Media, before SR exposed their illegal activities

MPOC was about to hire FBC Media, before SR exposed their illegal activities and closed them down

But rather than check his facts and balance his arguments, this British consultant has chosen instead to adopt the Malaysian Palm Oil's obsession with attacking NGOs.

In Malaysia free speech and independent opinion are treated like crimes by BN politicians, who find all criticism highly damaging, since they usually can't answer it.

But, why should a British onlooker condemn legitimate concerns raised by NGOs in the same way?

This week, when Jabu again went on the attack over native protests against Sarawak's latest dam building and 'industrialisation programme', the DCM as ever blamed "selfish foreign NGOs who are being paid" for "inciting" them.

He revealed his own paid for PR in the process:

"From overseas they get support from negative NGOs, but these people from overseas what do they know about our internal potential? I went over to London last January at the invitation of the Institute of Economic Affairs to be one of the panel speakers whereby my presentation to overseas has been acknowledged worldwide by the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. And I have been invited again to go to Belgium to tell the NGOs in Europe about our need to survive. Our own people, not because of the selfishness of the NGOs who are being paid, I know i've got records, by countries they collect money to finance the NGOs to disturb us here and I'm going to fight that, for the sake of Sarawak."  [recorded speech] 

Sarawak Report will investigate Jabu's Belgium event.  But, meanwhile why has Mr Boyfield has adopted the same anti-NGO line in his supportive articles for the MPOC?

"GLOBAL food security and the need to save Africa's poor from starvation have dominated international discussions for decades, and were key themes at the latest G8 summit. Yet the goal has triggered a raft of accusations from campaigning NGOs that business is guilty of "land grabs" across tropical Africa. The Guardian's George Monbiot, for example, claims that we are about to witness "a new set of agreements that allow foreign companies to grab [Africa's] land, patent their seeds and monopolise their food markets. This is scaremongering of the worst order and symptomatic of an ill-thought out attack on capitalism's role as a generator of prosperity."[Keith Boyfield, The Enquirer]

FBC Media would have been proud of all this from Mr Boyfield – they were the last British champions for the MOPC and they adopted exactly the same theme in their which was later disowned by the BBC.

But, when Ministers like Alfred Jabu start hurling unsubstantiated accusations about "paid NGOs", engaged by foreign powers to undermine Malaysia, someone should remind him about the millions of ringgit that are being wasted by the Malaysian Government itself on engaging this sort of blatant PR from consultants like Keith Boyfield.

It is always public money wasted, because people like Boyfield always get rumbled.

[Sarawak Report is still awaiting promise clarifications by the IEA, in response to our critique of its "complex and intertwined" relationship with the MOPC]

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~Cinta Ini Milik Dia~: <b>Makanan Tradisional Sarawak</b>

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 01:01 AM PDT

Sarawak adalah salah satu daripada dua negeri di pulau Borneo Malaysia. Dikenali sebagai Bumi kayangan ("Land of the Hornbills"). Sarawak juga terkenal dengan makanan bermacam-macam jenis dengan terdapat bahan yang mungkin tidak terdapat  di tempat kita dan memiliki pelbagai rasa yang sangat unik. Hari ni kite berkenalan dengan makanan-makanan yang special di Sarawak...ok,, jom tengok bawah..

Pertama sekali.... Laksa Sarawak... ni la makanan feberet saya. Laksa paling best dan sedap sekali... nak buat perencah tu agak rumit...tapi sekarang nih perencah tu banyak jual dalam paket... contohnye perencah laksa sarawak Haji Manan. Lepas tu juz sediakan bahan2 asas...macam udang, telur dan lain.. tgk gambar kat bawah nih.. terliuq x..?? hihi

Laksa Sarawak

Kedua, Mee kolok. Mee kolok ni ada dua...mee kolok biasa atau mee kolok goreng....bezanya..mee kolok goreng sedap lagi kot. Bagi saya la....mee kolok biasa....dia akan bagi sekali dengan sup,kuah cili...kat sarawak je ada mee nih......sedap. Mi kolok (juga dieja mi kolo), mi kering ataupun mi rangkai (daripada perkataan Iban rangkai, bermaksud "kering") adalah sejenis mi yang cukup popular di negeri Sarawak. Kebanyakan gerai di sekitar Kuching ada menyediakan atau menjual mi kolok ini. Mi kolok ini biasanya akan dihidangkan bersama kuah sup dan kicap.

Mee Kolok

Yang ke tiga Umai. Umai ni makanan mentah. Biasanya menggunakan ikan or udang. Bila dah masak isi ikan tu dah putih..ia di'masak' dengan halia dan asam limau kasturi tu haa..korang jangan gentar..silap2 haribulan,rasa sekali mesti nak rasa lagi.. So korang mesti kena cuba rasa Umai ni.

Umai 

Keempat ialah ambuyat atau dalam bahasa lain linut. Hidangan yang berasal dari batang  sagu. Ia adalah bahan berkanji , dan mungkin mempunyai persamaan dengan kanji ubi kayu. Ambuyat/Linut  juga merupakan salah satu hidangan yang terkenal bagi penduduk pribumi Sabah dan Sarawak.

Ambuyat dimakan dengan garpu buluh dipanggil chandas, dan kemudian dicelup dengan sambal belacan yang  mempunyai rasa masam,masin dan pedas..

Ia terkenal dengan makanan adat dari Suku Kaum Melanau terutama dibahagian Mukah,Oya, Matu dan Daro dan dianggap sebagai hidangan yang paling lengkap kerana ia dihidangkan dengan ulam seperti herba dan sayur-sayuran serta ikan salai atau masin, kuah pedas dan sambal.

Kelima, Manok Pansoh. Manok pansoh adalah sejenis makanan dimana ayam dimasak dalam buluh. Makanan ini merupakan makanan tradisional masyarakat Iban. Cara menyediakannya sama seperti menyediakan lemang di semenanjung.'Manok' bermaksudd ayam dan 'Pansoh' bermaksud dimasak dalam buluh. Dalam Bahasa Iban pula,dikenali sebagai 'Manuk Pansuh' ataupun ' Manuk Lulun'. Ayam ini dimasak bersama beberapa bahan tertentu seperti daun tertentu yang menjadikan rasanya sangat enak dan unik. Namun ade yang menggunakan daun ubi.

Seterusnya......

Tebaloi, sekarang telah diproses dalam berbagai rasa(snek),diproses secara tradisional, menggunakan tepung sagu, kelapa parut segar dan gula. adunan tadi di bakar diletakkan atas daun pisang.Perisa Tebaloi dapat di dapati dalam rasa stawberri, coklat, pandan dan rasa biasa.Pembungkusan dan pengkotakan yang menarik telah diperkenalkan untuk menarik minat pengemar makanan tersebut. 

Tebaloi

Ikan Terubuk Sarawak adalah salah satu produk terkenal dikalangan pelancong yang berkunjung ke Kuching, Sarawak. Para pelancong terutamanya dari Semenanjung pasti akan membelinya sebagai ole-ole sebelum meninggalkan bandaraya Kuching. kenapa ikan terubok popular? Walaupun ikan terubuk mempunyai tulang yang banyak tetapi ianya amat menyelerakan bila digoreng dan dicecah kuah asam.

Ikan Terubok


Kelupis ni makanan tradisi masyarakat kedayan di Sarawak....Setiap tahun akan ada satu upacara yang dipanggil upacara makan tahun....lazimnya dibuat pada bulan jun setiap tahun....Dalam dia guna beras pulut..tapi nak buat tu ada cara2 tertentu..kalau biasa kita tgk org buat...dua hari lepas tu basi dah..tapi kalau mmg org yang betul2 pandai..sampai seminggu pun tahan lagi....memang popular sgt kelupis ni dalam kalangan masyarakat kedayan.... 

Kelupis


Kuih punjung....kuih ni kuih tradisi masyarakat kedayan...kuih ini lebih kurang macam kuih celorot bentuk fizikalnya cuma yang ni bentuk kon sikit.

Kuih Punjung


Kuih Celorot


Sagu

 Bubur pedas....bubur ni dia guna banyak bahan2 berempah..... rasa bubur ini sangat sedap. especially kepada orang yang suka makanan pedas. Merupakan makanan tradisi masyarakat Sarawak.

Bubur pedas

Kek lapis Sarawak memang menjadi pilihan pelancong apabila datang ke sarawak. Kalau saya balik semenanjung memang penuh bagasi dengan pelbagai jenis kek lapis sarawak. Lain pada hari raya aidilfitri masyarakat sarawak dengan masyarakat semenanjung adalah koleksi kek lapis di atas meja menanti tetamu.

Kalau2 u oll nak lihat koleksi kek lapis sarawak, ni ha link kek lapis yang sanga famous di kuching. KEK LAPIS DAYANG SALHAH!


Kek Lapis Sarawak

Ha........... Ini yang last sekali. Jeng..Jeng.. jengg.... Ulat mulong! 

popular gak dalam masyarakat Melanau...yang ni i memang surrender la... ulat yang kontot sket n chubby....tapi kalau dalam masyarakat Melanau masak la dengan masakan apa pun...nampak sedap. walau bagaimanpun..x semua masyarakat Melanau makan ulat nih...acaner..?? teringin..?? hihi


Ulat Mulong

So.. sekarang dah tahu lah serba sedikit makanan yang ada di Sarawak yang mostly mmg x kan jmpa kat tanah Malaya nih...Jadi, kalau ada yang x berkesempatan lagi nak pi sarawak..t kalau korang pergi....pesan2 la makanan yg ada kat atas nih utk dirasa...hihihihih.....Selamat mencuba....

Restoran Zende Perkenal Masakan <b>Tradisional Sarawak</b>

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:16 PM PDT

- Sunday: 2014-06-01 10:24:06'.

Nasi Beras Bario (nasi pulut) dan sayur Midin Belacan dihidangkan di Festival Makanan dan Budaya Sarawak 2014 bermula pada 27 Mei hingga 6 Jun ini.

Nasi Beras Bario (nasi pulut) dan sayur Midin Belacan dihidangkan di Festival Makanan dan Budaya Sarawak 2014 bermula pada 27 Mei hingga 6 Jun ini.

BAGI mereka yang ingin mencuba keunikan masakan sarawak boleh berkunjung ke Festival Makanan dan Budaya Sarawak 2014 di Hotel Seri Pacific Kuala Lumpur.

Festival yang diadakan sehingga 6 Jun ini, membolehkan pelancong tempatan dan antarabangsa mencuba masakan Sarawak yang cukup enak ini.

Pengurus Besar hotel, Mohamad Halim Merican berkata Sarawak merupakan destinasi yang menarik untuk diterokai kerana ia kaya dengan sejarah serta budaya masyarakat pelbagai suku kaum.

"Sarawak sebuah negeri yang kaya dengan sejarah dan budaya. Antaranya hutan belantara yang hijau, rumah kepada orang utan, pantai yang cantik serta hidupan laut yang unik," katanya.

Pihak media juga berkesempatan untuk merasai keunikan masakan Sarawak, termasuk Nasi Beras Bario, Manok Pancoh dan Bubur Pedas Sarawak.

Kek lapis Sarawak turut dihidangkan pada Festival Makanan dan Budaya Sarawak 2014.

Pengurus Jualan dan Pemasaran Kampung Budaya Sarawak, Zaini Zainuddin, yang bercakap bagi pihak chef Sany Kalol dari Sarawak berkata menu yang disediakan terdiri daripada masakan tradisional Sarawak.

kek-lapis

Kek Lapis Sarawak

"Kebanyakan masakan diperbuat daripada ramuan asli dan herba seperti halia.

"Menu yang dihidangkan sepanjang festival ini juga agak jarang ditemui di Kuching," katanya.

Beliau turut mencadangkan agar kami mencuba masakan tradisi masyarakat Bidayuh, yang dikenali sebagai Daging Tepus Bidayuh.

"Daging ini dimasak dengan halia tua untuk mengekalkan rasanya," katanya.

Satu lagi hidangan yang dicadangkan ialah bubur pedas yang diperbuat daripada beberapa ramuan istimewa.

Sany berkata dia menggunakan bahan-bahan seperti daging lembu, sotong, ayam, sayur-sayuran seperti bawang, serai, cili kering bersama-sama dengan kelapa dan kunyit.

Dengan mencampurkan semua bahan-bahan ini menjadikan bubur pedas mempunyai rasa tersendiri dan merupakan hidangan yang digemari ramai.

Daging Tepus Bidayuh diperbuat daripada daging tanpa lemak, ringkas dan sedap.

Sayur Midin Belacan sesuai dimakan bersama dengan nasi kerana ia agak masin dan sedikit pedas.

Masakan lain yang turut dihidangkan sepanjang festival berkenaan ialah Manok Pansuh, Umai, Kek Lapis Sarawak, Linut, Mee Tomato dan Daging Kisar dan Murtabak Daging.

Semua masakan ini disediakan untuk bufet makan tengah hari dan makan malam, bermula pada harga RM60 dan RM79.

RESTORAN ZENDE, Seri Pacific Hotel, Jalan Putra, Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-40494351. Waktu operasi: 6.30 pagi hingga 1 petang, setiap hari.

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