| Open every Thursday evening and Friday morning, the tamu (open-air market) offers a range of local food, fruit and vegetable including jungle produce that is sold by farmers from the ulu. These include fruits such as jackfruit, temaga (red bananas), asam kelumbi - fruit of the rattan - and rambutan. A rich variety of vegetables includes the distinctive curling fronds of pakis, kangkong, batat, tapioca, bayam and sawi. There is also kampong rice, cili padi (small red-hot chili), and thick palm stems called luba which are steamed with belacan and chili to produce a spicy dish. The tamu starts getting busy after 4p.m. on Thursdays but doesn't come alive until much later in the evening, at about 7p.m.-8p.m. Stalls open the following morning by 7a.m.
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Original text researched and written by Nick wood . Text updated in 1996 by Haji Hussin bin Ahmad, re-researched and updated in 2000 by Hans Dols |
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