Cooking with banana leaves
this year’s theme is food wrapped or bundled in banana leaves. Banana leaves are an ingredient that is easily found in Brunei and around South-East Asia, and they often give flavour to food, whether sweet or savoury. Food wrapped or bundled in banana leaves will then be further given the aroma of the leaves. This style of cooking also makes the food tasty. Brunei dishes and foods that are usually wrapped or
Pais and other banana-leaf dishes
bundled in banana leaves include Pais Daging, Pais Udang and Pais Ikan. “Pais” is a seasoning
for meat or seafood which is usually made with an aromatic blend of garlic, shallots and chilli and seasoned with pandan leaves. Bundles
At Brunei Gastronomy Week, guests who dined at Radisson Hotel enjoyed various fish and meat dishes that had been prepared using banana leaves. In addition, the Chef prepared Rendang Daging Tenderloin Angus with nasi lemak rolls, cucumber pickle, crushed peanuts and sambal belacan.
made with tea biscuits and a malt mixture, given a ‘Radisson’ touch with a choice of Oreo cookies with Red Velvet cake and pandan flavour. Kuih Badak Berendam, glutinous rice balls filled with palm sugar dipped in salted coconut cream,
Clearly, this year’s Brunei Gastronomy Week has kinds of dish flavours as well as servings of traditional Brunei cuisine.
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2018 Mar-Apr, pages 53-53. Printed in Bahasa Melayu and translated into English for this site; text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected.
