Jungle food, common ancestry of Igorots, Dayaks, Nagas and how Christianity 'tamed' them.
Jungle food: Purple hill rice, pickled small river fish, chicken soup cooked in bamboo, pickled jungle fern, river fish crackers. I brought Cristina and her fellow Igorot friend (who has just come to Singapore for work) to eat at Kantin@Jewel a restaurant serving the food of the tribes in Sarawak. See photo captions. The food is not really authentic though they do use the wild herbs and vegetables found in the tropical forests. The Igorots of The Philippines, the Dayaks of Sarawak, the Nagas of Nagaland, India are all descended from the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan. These fierce warlike tribes with their common head-hunting tradition were never subdued by the foreigners who invaded and colonized their country - the Japanese in Taiwan, the British in India and Malaysia, the Spanish, Americans and WWII Japanese Army in The Philippines. But those who accepted the Christianity brought by missionaries were transformed. But even today, some Nagas are still fightin...
