/ shrimp,then to smoking and drying,all these long process brings hard work with patience. These are famous products of Belawai,they called ' sesar' (Malay language) , ' kupas ' (Melanau language) , 'dried shrimp' is what we ordinary called. The salted dried fish is 'ikan masin' .
Price of kupas is rm60 per kilogram.
From the photos...we know how painstaking the process of getting dried prawns out to the market...so tiring...Thanks for the photos and story....
ReplyDeleteI missed this feature when I went the other day.....no fishing boat came back...and no fish ..and prawns.
I was told by Leh Tiong you missed this inccidence,not in good timimg Sarawakiana . We were lucky at our 1st trip .
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