The leaves of the palm are used to make the roofs of the indigenous people's houses. The leaves, matted evenly together form a beautiful material for making of walls. These leaf based walls are called attap in the local language.
The stems of the leaves when burnt result in salt, nipah salt is organic and is known to have curative benefits.
The flowers of the nipah are pretty and when their stems are tapped in the early morning, a sugary sap flows out. This sap when boiled result in nipah sugar, a lovely palm sugar which is delicious.
In the olden days, this sugar was the only sugar known to the locals before the advent of granulated cane sugar from developed countries.
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