The binjai is a local Sarawak fruit, sour and its flesh is white. It is a peculiar fruit which might not be liked by a lot of people who are unfamiliar with it.
There is a similar local fruit called belunu!
Both fruits have huge trees which can grow up to more than 200 feet tall.
Ambuyat or linut is a Bruneian dish and it is also favoured by the Penans, Melanaus and Kedayans of Sarawak.
It is called linut in Sarawak and is made from sago flour. It is actually very gluey. You eat it with a special bamboo home made chopsticks. Linut is served with sambal, cucumber and selections of sour fruits.
My former SMK Limbang student, Dayang Lasung who is Lun Bawang married a Melanau. She and her husband, both studied in the Tanjog Lobang College, Miri, One day they prepared a Linut feast ad invited me . It was a sumptuous Melanau lunch with linut and all.
The way to pick up linut is to use a Melanau chopsticks, made from fine bamboo, which look like a pair of Chinese chopsticks. Now I know what the Melanau and Penan tamu vendors sell in the their stalls. They are selling Melanau chopticks and not Chinese chopsticks.
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