5 items must buy

When you visit Sarawak, you must not forget to buy 5 items from Sarawak, the land of the hornbill.

1. Sarawak Layer Cake or Kek Lapis Sarawak.

Sarawak layer cake is unique, its look, the design and how it is bake. It requires special skills, careful attention to detail to make a tasty delicious cake and the look of its art and skill. The finish product would translate of how skillful the maker and time requires to complete the particular cake. The cake is definitely beautiful.

Cakes are made with multiple layer at least 2 layers with varieties of colors. Some are designed with complex and intricate pattern  from horizontal, vertical, cris cross, and etc. 

mariam cakes

The layers are made of chocolate, cheese, coconut, and many choices of flavours. You may find cake at Dayang Salhah enterprise, Mariam Kek House, Rabiah Amit Cake and many more.

1.Terubok Salted Fish / Ikan Terubok Masin

One of the favorite food that people craving for when they visit Sarawak. Terubok  (scientific name is tenulosa toli or American Shad Fish) salted fish is a unique souvenir gift to bring back from Sarawak. Its taste is one kind and totally the best appetizer known in our local menu in Sarawak. It is cooked with various style and  you can also eat them with some lime and chillies. You must try this..

3.Pottery

Sarawak is one of the best pot producer in Malaysia.  It has a unique design because it is made by various ethnic such as iban, kelabit, melanau and some from chinese. As a result you will find different motives crafted on the pottery. The motives are very unique and some are very expensive because the pot has it own history and some was made in hundred years old.  You can also find the modern design and shape like the tea cup, ashtray, photo frame and etc. Just take a walk along the Gambier Street in front of Kuching Water Front and there you can get it.   

4. Sarawak Pepper 

This commodity is one of the highest  quality that you can find in Sarawak. Sarawak pepper is grown by small farmers in Sarawak. They contribute the largest export of pepper in Malaysia.  Sarawak pepper is well known throughout the world because of the quality. They come in two types: black pepper and white pepper. Pepper are made into pepper powder, pepper sauce and also pepper grind.  One of the famous black pepper sauce producer is Fezul Foodtech Sdn Bhd.  

5. Bead

blue barrel bead

Beads are native most famous accesories for all time. Native of kelabit, one of the indigenous groups in Sarawak are the best bead maker. They would make a bracelet, necklace, head , even a costume out or it. The colorful beads are beautiful and the design are unique. In the olden days,  certain beads were considered status symbols for the the Kelabit people. beads symbolise its status  from middle class, aristocrats and commoners. Now beads are still popular and become one of the story to share and valuable history for Sarawak.