Lemang Bakar session 2012 @ Banting

August 19, 2012

Lemang Bakar session 2012 @ Banting

Never in my life i bakar lemang before.

Lemang in buluh means glutinous rice in santan put into bamboo.

This is a traditional delicacy for the Malay in Malaysia. This delicacy is especially important during the Aidilfitri season.

I was invited to this lemang bakar by my colleague. Then I say Yes! the next day since i always wanted to see how is this tradition being carried out.

Reach my friend's place after Ishak (around 9pm). And they already started the fire.

So now i gonna intro the way to make a standard lemang bakar.

1st Step : You need to get the bamboo (buluh). People nowadays buy from the pak cik (Uncle) in the village

2nd Step : You need to clean the Buluh using your own way. In our case, we used a cloth to wrap around the wooden stick for cleaning the buluh.

Step 3 : Use clean banana leaf as the pembalut (wrapper) of the lemang. You roll it up using the help of a thin stick from the centre of banana leaf.

Step 4 : you put in the rolled banana lead into the buluh. Slowly. If it got stuck or loosen then push it in using anti-clockwise.

Step 5 : pour in some santan (coconut milk) into the buluh. This is for the moisture from the bottom.

Step 6 : Put in glutinous rice into the buluh. The rice need to be washed first.

Step 7 : Put till 70% full. Then you pour in the santan till 90% full.

Posing for the photo~~

Making it together!!

Step 8 : All done! And ready to transport it to the Lemang bakar site.

Step 9 : last inspection before putting it to the fire. You can't put too lil santan or else it will turned out dry.

Step 10 : Bakar lemang !! The hottest session of all. And need constant taking care of.

While we were waiting for the lemang, He bakar satay (satay is a malaysian food made up of beef, chicken or other meat and being poke into a stick and BBQ)/.