Local Dishes

1. demok

   Demok (young taro leaves boiled in coconut milk)

2. chelang

   Chelang (boiled taro stems sweetened with coconut milk and sugar)

3. chelbakl

   Chelbakl (sweetened crushed tapioca or taro, wrapped in leaves and boiled)

4. blsiich

   Blsiich (pounded taro, i.e. poi)

5. basabasang

   Basabasang (a soup of rice water and coconut milk)

6. sabao

   Sabao (soup)

7. cheluomel

   Cheluomel (fish wrapped in leaves or betel-nut fibre and baked)

8. cheliotel

   Cheliotel (a dish cooked with coconut milk)

9. mellolau

   Mellolau (caramelised coconut milk)

10. ilaot

    Ilaot (syrup boiled down from coconut sap)

11. odoim

    Odoim (the non-starch side of a meal — meat, fish and the like)

12. ongraol

    Ongraol (the starchy staple — taro, tapioca, rice)

13. kliou

    Kliou (dessert — the sweet dish prepared for guests)

14. sasimi

    Sasimi (sashimi — raw fish)

15. bento

    Bento (a lunchbox; food eaten away from home)

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