Forest ferns have a special place in the diet of
the people, with the two most popular ferns used as vegetables being midin and
the fiddlehead fern (pucuk paku). Midin grows wild in the secondary forests and
is peculiar to the state. It has curly fronds and is very crunchy even after it
has been cooked. Rural dwellers have always considered the fern a tasty,
nutritious vegetable and the jungle fern’s rise from rural staple to urban
gourmet green occurred in the 1980s with the increased urban migration of the
Iban. Aromatic leaves from trees, such as the Bungkang, are also used in
cooking to flavour food.
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