Miding

Miding plant

My mom was in Kuching for my grandma’s birthday over the weekend. Since she is there, I had an inspiration to have this particular dish made from the Miding plant.

I think this particular plant only grows in Sarawak hence its quite hard to get it in other countries like Singapore or even West Malaysia.

The wild miding grows by the roadside or in the jungle. In the morning, the natives would go around plucking them to bundle them up to be sold in the market. I think its quite a hard work considering that you have to pluck a lot to make one bundle. And each bundle below sells only like RM2 or so.

Miding bundle

Natural packaging

The miding packaging is also quite interesting. They would pluck these big leaves from the plants in the jungle and just bundle it up with a string. It looks like a big burrito.

When you open it up, it looks quite neat and clean.

The best way to eat it is to cook with sambal belacan. My aunt had prepared two type of it for me to try. One with blue ginger and the other without. I wonder which one taste better.

I actually forgotten what miding tasted like. Its supposed to be better tasting than kangkong belacan. I shall try it tonight as the miding plant cannot be kept that long after plucking.

More pics later when I cooked it.

Update: This is the cooked miding with sambal belacan. Taste good, but I think I put a bit too much belacan coz a bit too salty.

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