Daun Lirik for Kelupis

The indigenous people of Sarawak depend a lot on leaves for food presentation.

Leaves are useful to wrap rice for example. And food need to be taken to the farms where it cannot be heated up over a fire. So food must be wrapped up to prevent it from becoming stale.

The nicest way of preparing glutinous rice is to make small little finger like tubes and have them wrapped up neatly by leaves.

These little parcels of rice are called kelupis.

Daun lirik or daun long is used. Sometimes when this leaf is not available, banana leaf is used.