Apam Johol @ N9

Apam johol atau apam daun rambai ialah sebuah makanan tradisional, sejenis apam di Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Makanan tersebut dibalut dengan daun rambai untuk mengekalkan aroma apabila dikukus. 

Kadangkala dimakan bersama rendang, sambal tumis dan bubur kacang.  Ia biasanya dihidangkan semasa sarapan pagi atau minum petang .

rambai leaves
( Baccaurea motleyana )

dough made of primarily flour, egg, brown sugar

steam

Rendang Maman @ N9

Cleome gynandra ( maman )is a species of edible annual wildflower native to Africa, but now has become widespread in many tropical and sub-tropical regions across Asia.

In Gemencheh, Negeri Sembilan, it’s an important ingredient in cooking the rendang maman.

rendang maman

ingredients of rendang maman

maman plant

manan seeds

Air Jando Pulang @ N9

 

Air Jando Pulang is a traditional Negeri Sembilan drink.  Literally, its means “returning of a divorced-woman”.

Air Jando Pulang is actually coconut water sweetened with nira enau ( jaggery extracted from enau palm, i.e. Arenga pinnata ).  The coconut water together with the flesh is first remove from a young coconut. The water is added with liquid nira enau, then poured back into the shell together with beluluk ( flesh of enau palm ).  

The process of removing and refilling in the coconut water is in allusion to the separation and reuniting of a woman with her husband.   Another explanation is that the concoction of three sweet 

The name actually implies that the process of preparing the drink of which is sweet in nature, ( i.e. coconut water, nira enau and beluluk ) is so flavourful that the separated wife was persuaded to return to her husband.