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lemang

Name: lemang
Cuisine: Indonesia

Traditional dish from Indonesia

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About lemang

Indonesian and Malaysian traditional food

Lemang is a Malay traditional food made from glutinous rice, coconut milk, and salt, cooked in a hollowed bamboo tube coated with banana leaves in order to prevent the rice from sticking to the bamboo. Lemang is believed to have origins linked to the ancient Proto-Malay and Deutero-Malay peoples who settled across Maritime Southeast Asia centuries ago. Similar dishes made from sticky rice in bamboo are common throughout Mainland Southeast Asia.