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Baba Nyonya Culinaries
The Baba and Nyonya communities are well known for their traditional culinary normally based on Chinese cooking but adapted to suit the buds of the Babas who love the Malay hot dishes. Their dishes are served during celebrations such as Chinese New Year, birthdays and weddings. The dishes are like curries, pastes, pang-teh, bak-wan, crab soup, timitik duck where the duck is covered with preserved vegetable, siohi duck where the duck is covered with spices, as well as nyonya pickle, and nasi lemak. The cakes are kuih bakul or tih kuey, and kuey-ku in the shape of a tortoise coloured in red, blue and black.
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Pasembor Salad
Pasembor or Pasembur is also known as Malaysian Indian Salad. This dish is a mixture of cucumber slices, onion, potato, bean curd, bean sprout, dried shrimp, crab fried in spices and fried squid, served with sweet and spicy peanut gravy. The gravy is akin to the gravy of the gado-gado (mixed vegetable salad) dish or satay (grilled meat in a skewer). This dish is normally taken in the afternoon as a vegetarian diet if not mixed with seafood. Traditionally, the Tamil Muslim pasembor seller turns his motorcycle as a kiosk for the preparation and selling of this dish. Nowadays, the seller moves about using a small lorry.
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The Dance of the Seletar Indigenous People – Ketam Bangkang
The Ketam Bangkang Dance (or the ‘Crab Dance’) is an arts form of the Orang Asli (indigenous people) that live in Bakar Batu, Johor. Ketam Bangkang is called ‘Yok Sang’ in the language of the indigenous people. Among the dance steps are elements of the crab like ‘clawing’, ‘crab run’, ‘provoking’, ‘crab’s joke’ and ‘shooing the crab’, as well as ‘wave’s billow’, ‘peeping’, ‘rowing a boat’, ‘the Seletar sway’, ‘dipping mud’, ‘wiping sweat’, ‘nose picking’ and ‘brink of bridge’.
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The Dance of the Seletar Indigenous People – Ketam Bangkang
The Ketam Bangkang Dance (or the ‘Crab Dance’) is an arts form of the Orang Asli (indigenous people) that live in Bakar Batu, Johor. Ketam Bangkang is called ‘Yok Sang’ in the language of the indigenous people. Among the dance steps are elements of the crab like ‘clawing’, ‘crab run’, ‘provoking’, ‘crab’s joke’ and ‘shooing the crab’, as well as ‘wave’s billow’, ‘peeping’, ‘rowing a boat’, ‘the Seletar sway’, ‘dipping mud’, ‘wiping sweat’, ‘nose picking’ and ‘brink of bridge’.
Malaysia