laksa curry prawn in sarawak

This is my favourited laksa..it called curry prawn laksa..its tasted very spicy..,and delicious.This laksa is very popular food in malaysia.There are many type of laksa in malaysia.We can maked our own laksa in home.We can get this recipe through internet,.magazine..and from our friend.It very easy to make this laksa.I hope that, laksa food can attract more people to try the delicious laksa..

sape music instrument popular in sarawak

hai,..everyone..i would like to introduced sarawak traditional music instruments called(sape).This music instruments is very popular in sarawak.
The sape is a traditional lute of many of the Orang Ulu or "upriver people", who live in the longhouses that line the rivers of Central Borneo. Sapes are carved from a single bole of wood, with many modern instruments reaching over a metre in length.
Initially the sape was a fairly limited instrument with two strings and only three frets. Its use was restricted to a form of ritualistic music to induce trance. In the last century, the sape gradually became a social instrument to accompany dances or as a form of entertainment. Today, three, four or five-string instruments are used, with a range of more than three octaves...

IBAN TRADISIONAL COSTUME

This is the complete set of it. Usually the girl wearing ngepan is ready to ngajat, for her wedding or the gawai celebration itself

"marik empang" made up of beads and threads.

We called the set of bracelets and silver belts "tumpa"

The tumpa is originally made from silver, nowadays it is really hard to find the original one. So if your grandma gives you hers, keep it properly.

"sugu tinggi"

> also made up of silver, nowadays the sugu tinggi that were sold on the streets most of it made up of steel or other fake materials.

bracelets a.k.a "Tumpa"

tumpa is pronounces as tumpo

selampai

*handmade, I remember the last time I saw my grandma weaving the selampai is around May 2001.

silver belts with coins on their waist it is called tating kain

during gawai we're having beauty contest also. The girl that won the contest crowned as kumang gawai.

the skirt that they are wearing is called kain kebat

IBAN TRADITIONAL KUIH JALA@KUIH SARAN SEMUT

hello..everyone,..i will like to introduced about iban traditional(kuih jala@kuih sarang semut)in sarawak.During gawai festival,this traditional kuih very popular among iban races..it very easy to maked this type of kuih.This kuih is very differenced among other kuih in malaysia.It tasted very delicious,sweet,crispy and produce good aroma..To maked this kuih,we need apong sugar(gula melaka),tepung beras and other ingredient..