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Historically, the Iban were known for their warrior culture, particularly the practice of headhunting, which was a central element of their societal structure and spiritual beliefs until the early 20th century. The Iban’s traditional social units are based around longhouses, which serve as communal living spaces for extended families.
The Iban's staple food is rice from paddy planted on hill or swamp with hill rice having better taste and more valuable. A second staple food used to be "mulong" (sago powder) and the third one is tapioca. The Iban's famous cuisine is called "lulun" or "pansoh" which is wild meat, fish or vegetable cooked in wild bamboo containers over fire.
Bruneian, Iban, Bajau and Kadazan-Dusun: Main ingredients: Rice flour, cooking oil, palm sugar: Jala is a traditional kuih from Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia and Brunei.
Ayam pansuh or manuk pansuh is a dish prepared by cooking chicken meat in a bamboo stalk, [2] filled with water (which will later be the soup), seasonings and covered with tapioca leaves from the cassava plant (later can be eaten together with the cooked chicken).
The Lun Bawang (formerly known as Trusan Murut and Mengalong Murut or Southern Murut) is an ethnic group found in Central Northern Borneo.They are indigenous to the southwest of Sabah (Interior Division including Labuan) and the northern region of Sarawak (Limbang Division), highlands of North Kalimantan (Long Bawan , Krayan, Malinau, Mentarang) and Brunei (Temburong District).
Sarawakian cuisine is a regional cuisine of Malaysia.Similar to the rest of Malaysian cuisine, Sarawak food is based on staples such as rice.There is also a great variety of other ingredients and food preparations due to the influence of the state's varied geography and indigenous cultures quite distinct from the regional cuisines of the Peninsular Malaysia.
Linguistically, the Salako belong to another language family tree which is of the Malayic Dayak family (the same family as the Iban). [11] The Lara, although said to be more related to the Bidayuh (Jagoi-Singai), speak a language almost not mutually intelligible at all with the Bidayuh but belonged to the same language family tree which is the ...
The Iban longhouse functions as a community, each holding several families (over 50 in some cases) related through blood and marriage. A communal corridor (the ruai ) runs through the building, and is the location of communal activities, such as work, socialising, celebrating, and discussing community matters.