Gawai Visiting
Jun 3rd, 2008 by Clare
Note: Photos are all taken with Canon EOS 400D DSLR
Sidenote: My blog is down for two days due to the outage at the data center of my web host in the United States!
Who say Chinese don’t celebrate Gawai??? Some do you know! Neh, those married to Iban spouses ones lor, they are celebrating Gawai wor! (I can hear many of you say “CHEH!”) Hahahaha!
Anyway, I went Gawai visiting the other day (to two houses) and like I said in my earlier post, there were drinking, eating, and dancing. Oh yes, I did all of the above! 
We were served with great food at the first house that we visited.
1: Pickles
2: Ayam masak merah
3: BBQ Chicken Wing
4: BBQ Pork
5: Potato from Chicken Curry
6: Masak Hitam (my favourite!)
7: Bread - to be taken with some Satay Sauce (not in pic)
8: Fried bihun
So much for lunch! Down them all with a glass of tuak, an alcoholic beverage made of fermented rice, yeast and sugar. Burps!
The fun only started at the second house we visited. The friendly host poured us some tuak
Probably to get us high and drunk before conning us to dance. LOL! Not only that, he fed us with FOOD too:
Homemade delicacies that I seldom see anywhere else. And they taste different from those sold outside.
Then the host led us to the balcony outside his house (can be called ruai) where he put up a tree with food and drinks tied onto the tree
The Iban music started
The host lead the dancing
He took out the long knife and danced (ngajat) towards the tree before cutting off harvesting an item from the tree using the knife. Then he proceed to dance around the tree before passing the knife on to the next person to do the same ritual.
Sweet young thing harvesting a can of soda from the tree 
After everyone had his/her chance to dance and harvest, we went into the house to have another round of tuak!
Free booze mana mahu cari?!!!
One of the musical instrument used for the music - Gongs!
Another type of musical instrument as seen being played by the lady in one of the above pictures - cenang (I think)
The sword with unique carvings! I like! See you next year
fuh, the tuak looks good! must be very the powderful judging from the colour!!!
It not only looks good. It smells good and tastes good too!
Powderful I tell you, so nice!
bongkersz, the one we had at finnegan’s last saturday was quite okay also wat.
woh, i missed penganan semut, penganan bintang .. aih .. best nyerr …
when it comes to gawai, it’s all pork pork and more pork .. seriously.
that tree is called ranyai
Hey… Is that Michael Ili’s hse?