What is Lemang?
Lemang is glutinous rice mixed with coconut milk then compacted into a hollow bamboo rod. It takes skill to ensure that just the right amount of rice is placed inside without it spilling over as it cooks and expands, and also it takes skill to roast it over the fire for hours, to ensure that it cooks evenly or at all!
When Hari Raya comes around, you may notice many roadside stalls sprouting up like mushrooms after a rain, roasting sticks of bamboo. If you aren’t familiar with this scene, you may be wondering just what they are up to. These sellers are in fact roasting “Lemang” – a traditional Malay Rice cooked in bamboo.When cooked, the bamboo is split open and the cooked Lemang is taken out to cool. Once cooled, they are sliced up into slices about 2cm thick and eaten with curries, rendang or popularly with serunding (spicy dried meat floss).
The taste is rich with coconut milk and a subtle flavour of bamboo. Personally, I don’t like it much but I know of people who love it so much they even eat it outside of the festive season!kak shila lemang kampong enterprise
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