Food and Drink in Kelabit

English: serving of drinks (e.g. burak) using a ladle made of gourd; scooping off excess water when cooking rice (using ladle made of `payang' fruit)

ebek-ebek

English: to bubble up (of boiling rice)

ebpeg

English: pulp of tapioca or coconut that has been squeezed by twisting it in a cloth, dregs of rice wine

gayut

English: instrument for scraping burnt rice, or rice stuck to the bottom, from the bottom of the container

gerio

English: cooked rice mixed with tapioca powder, usu. used to save on rice

gerut

English: hard rice that sticks to the bottom of the pot after cooking

gula'

English: sugar
Bahasa Malaysia: gula

isip 1

English: plant with thin glossy leaves which are used to wrap rice cakes, packages of rice, etc.

keber

English: pineapple
Bahasa Malaysia: nanas

kerid

English: generic name for vegetables; vegetable dish to go with rice

kikid

English: porridge, gruel (made from rice mixed with vegetables)
Bahasa Malaysia: bubur

kulat 1

English: mushroom, toadstool
Bahasa Malaysia: cendawan, kulat

kupi

English: coffee
Bahasa Malaysia: kopi

melang

English: to slice a rice cake (nuba' laya') with something

menebpur

English: rice porridge
Bahasa Malaysia: bubur

mi

English: noodles
Bahasa Malaysia: mi

mi goreng

English: fried noodle
Bahasa Malaysia: mi goreng

minyak

English: cooking oil
Bahasa Malaysia: minyak masak

mirup

English: drink, beverage
Bahasa Malaysia: minuman

ngaur

English: remove the rice from the pot after cooking, and wrap it

ngebpa' (ng-ebpa')

English: 1) to add water to rice when cooking or to a wet padi field, etc; 2) to remove water, as from a pond, so as to catch the fish in it

ngelaak (ng-laak)

English: to cook (rice)

ngerut (ng-gerut)

English: to scrape out hard rice with a `gayut'

nuba'

English: cooked rice
Bahasa Malaysia: nasi

nukenen

English: food
Bahasa Malaysia: makanan

pangin

English: brown-skinned pithy fruit from the mango family, often eaten with rice

penguman (peng-kuman)

English: anything eaten with rice

senape

English: rice cakes made by boiling rice wrapped in leaves, usually "isip" leaves

tara

English: storage place for husked rice, salt, etc. above the fireplace

terur

English: 1) egg; 2) testical
Bahasa Malaysia: 1) telur; 2) buah pelir

tusa

English: milk
Bahasa Malaysia: susu

tutungan

English: bamboo for cooking rice in

u'ut

English: straw for sipping rice wine; cigarette, pipe (for smoking)

ui

English: cheer uttered when passing 'arak' or 'burak' rice wine in a festival