Young immature chempedak, a local fruit in Sarawak is often sold as a vegetable in order to allow fewer to grow to maturity. Chempedak fruits from a stalk on a tree trunk or a branch and they grow in large numbers. Hence they must be manually plucked so that a few could grow to maturity. Usually the poorer formed ones would be plucked first. These little "pillows" would then be sent to the market in gunny sacks to be sold.
The hawkers would then cut open the fruit and chopped up the inner part of the fruit into a basin of water. These chopped up immature fruit would be sold . Today Rm2.00 would be just the right amount to make a nice dish of young chempedak in coconut milk. With a bit of belacan, this dish is very exotically aromatic and pleasant to eat. Loved by young and old, it is considered a delicacy in Sarawak.
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