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Delicacies
Tamu
Kianggeh grouped together with hundreds of small entrepreneurs, mostly Bruneian Malays and few are Chinese. Most of are elderly
local women and a few are men. Some hawkers prefer to put what they sell on stalls.
The tamu in Bandar Seri Begawan, for example, has numerous things for sale, including various kinds of local vegetables-musk-limes
and chillies are two common ingredient in Bruneian culinary, salted fish, medicinal herbs. fruit, rice, potted plants, flowers,
pots and vases, different kind of leaves for making mats, baskets or to covered foods like daun nyirik, daun mengkuang, bamboos, dried fish and shrimps, condiments,
live chickens and freshly cooked food such as fried rice, beef, fish, prawns, fried noodles, banana fritters and other culinary
delights. The tamu is first about the best place to buy eggs, which are produced, sufficient to met local requirements. Some
vegetables and fruits are imported from Brunei Darussalam’s neighboring country, Malaysia are also sold here. Occasionally, the tamu sells not onl food and
drinks but also toys.
For the visitors who wish to savour the delicacies of Bruneian cuisine, the tamu
is the best place to go to. Some visitors claim that if you want to sample Bruneian cuisine Tamu Kianggeh is the place to
start. Here customers are seen buying some grilled foods like honey grilled chicken, satay
(made up of small chunks of beef or chicken marinated in sweet aromatic spices, skewered in ribs of coconut leaves and
then grilled, taken with peanut sauce and ketupat) and traditional culinary delights known as pais, which are wrapped
in leaves and then grilled over charcoal fire. Others like liking (marinade mackerel
which is mixed with chillies, onion, pounded turmeric, salt and tamarind. Usually cooked it fry), belutak, lalap, etc.
Other delicacies are sold here are Brunei Malay
kuih and traditional biscuits (wet or dry), pots and vases, fishes, snacks and
drinks, lamps, powder and so on. You may also finds different kind of ornaments, antiques, local traditional handicraft products
like tudung dulang (beautiful and decorative food cover), nyiru, pemarang (machete-like knife), baskets, pengayuh (boat paddles) and so on in this place. Customer can purchase $5 to $30 only for tudung dulang.
The main attraction
of the tamu is not only its low prices and high quality products that made by experience and expertise locals but also the
fact that many of the things sold there are not available in the conventional markets and handicraft shoppers may find good
bargains here.
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