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Wild mushrooms can be cooked with long beans. It is one of the favourite dishes in the longhouse.
It is quite easy to find mushrooms in the secondary jungle as they do spread around a lot by spores. Most villagers know exactly where to find the wild mushrooms provided the jungle is not devasted by bad logging. Once a forest is badly logged and soils turned upsdie down, the old spores could not grow.
It is always a blessing for the longhouse people if they keep their foraging grounds in good conditions. In that way they will always be able to find wild mushrroms, wild fruits and other jungle vegetables.
That is why the Ibans would like their land kept in their natural conditions. It is their supermarket.
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