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Monday, April 12, 2010

Torajan Style Cuisine

About culinary in Toraja, we'll also find the uniqueness although actually we'll find several equations with others places culinary in Indonesia. I mean pa'piong and how to make it ?. Making pa'piong with set on fire in bamboo.
Cooking in bamboo, we can also find in others places like in North and Middle of Sulawesi, West Sumatra and may be in out of the places. But I want to tell you about how Torajanesse cooking using bamboo as container for cooking.
Cutting meat and mixer with many kind of spices. The main matter is meat and the second is vegetable.

The vegetables is Coleus blumei (Indonesia :mayana, Toraja : Bulu nangko). This vegetables at most used in cooking pa'piong with compressed Colous blumei after mix with all of spices. One bar of pa'piong will contain much coleus blumai that means this is health culinary.
Many species of Coleus blumei can grow thriving in Toraja although Torajanesse not make cultivation of these species. These species can grow in wherever land moreover until to the land of mountains stone.


Mixture with meat, coleus blumei, spices in bamboo will emit fragrance after fired and sure tasty and delicious.



2 comments:

  1. Use of mayana for cooking is news to me. In Maca-as, Catmon, Cebu, Philippines Nanay Juliana, my great grandmother had medical use for mayana: treating skin infections like boils and skin trauma.

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  2. For long time Torajanesse cooking mayana. Other race in Indonesia use mayana for medical too, but Torajanesse can cooking with mayana.

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