Making Ketupats - The Lost Art

Ketupat or packed rice is a type of dumpling from Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei,Singapore, and the Philippines. It is made from rice that has been wrapped in a woven palm leaf pouch and boiled. As the rice cooks, the grains expand to fill the pouch and the rice becomes compressed. This method of cooking gives the ketupat its characteristic form and texture of a rice dumpling. Ketupat is usually eaten with rendang (a type of dry beef curry) or served as an accompaniment to satay or gado-gado, a chosen mix during Eid Mubarak. - WikipediaYou can earn a living weaving ketupats.That was what I was thinking as I spent the last 2 hours weaving ketupats for Eid Mubarak. Eid will come to us in the next 2 days and if I don’t finish this whole bunch of...

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