Mani's Food and Cooking
If you are an outsider looking in on
the Mani they can seem to be backward and uncivilized when it comes to
food. However, there are many people who
do judge before even knowing people. The
Mani are not as backward or uncivilized as you would think. Mani eats only
well-cooked food. They cannot stand raw
food and if they find out people do they think "those who eat raw food are
barbarians not friends"
The Mani’s daily diet mostly consisted
of wild animals, fruits and vegetables. Meat is not as likely to be around for
the Mani to eat. Moreover, it is if the men were able to succeed in their
hunting. When they do have a successful hunt the Mani people will have a feast-like
meal. They do not let any food go to
waste so they will eat the game and all the food they have gotten for that day
and eat it all.
Mani’s main way of cooking when they have
successfully hunted an animal, they cook it the old-fashioned Mani way by
simply throwing the meat into a fire. When they think that the meat is ready,
they pull it out of the fire and eat it immediately. However the Mani does have
other ways of making their food, for example, they know how to curry, boil, fry
and roast in bamboo joints just like their Thai neighbors.
No matter how many cooking methods
the Mani have recently learnt, the Mani will cook the old-fashioned Mani way by
simply throwing the meat into a fire.
When grilling/cooking the meat in this way, the animal is not skinned. Furthermore,
when the animal is in the fire the hairs are merely scorched away. Then before
the Mani eat the meat they will remove the last remaining hairs.
Foods the Mani people eat
·
Vegetables
o Paak
Kood
o Paak
Priang
o Ton
On Kluay Pah (wild banana sapling)
o Ton
Kaa Laah
o Ton
Kra Teu
o Louk
Pa Niang
o Louk
Pa Nang
o Ton
Tao Raang
o Paak
Sampeng
o Nor
Mye (bamboo shoot)
·
Fruits
o Deuay
Ngua
o Ngoh
Pah
o Daam
Thong
o Pa
Wah
o Hua
Lam
o Tong
Beung
o Pra
o Kee
Korn
o Whai
o Som
(orange) Treed (similar to a marian plum)
o Ma
Fai Din
o Ma
Fai Lee
o Ma
Fai Kaa
o Nom
Kwai
o Nom
Maew
o Kluay
Pah
o Ma
Pring Pah
·
Meats if there is a successful hunt
o Monkeys
o Gibbons
o Squirrel
o Flying
lemur
o Deer
o Chevrotain
o Koo
Rum
o Langurs
o Civet
o Paab
Maew
o Moo
(pig)
o Kaeng
o Ohn
o Boar
o Reptiles
that are hunted and eaten include lan (monitor lizard)
turtles, including the soft-shelled turtle.
that are hunted and eaten include lan (monitor lizard)
turtles, including the soft-shelled turtle.
o Birds
that are hunted and eaten are limited to relatively large species,
such as the kaa bao, ka haang, ngeuk, chon hin, ka pood and koo ke birds.
that are hunted and eaten are limited to relatively large species,
such as the kaa bao, ka haang, ngeuk, chon hin, ka pood and koo ke birds.
o Marine animals
that are hunted and eaten include various species of fish found locally (such as the too nah, the nguad, and other fish).
that are hunted and eaten include various species of fish found locally (such as the too nah, the nguad, and other fish).
o Molluscs
that are collected and eaten include the hoy loh and the hoy kaab.
that are collected and eaten include the hoy loh and the hoy kaab.
o Crustaceans
such as fresh-water crabs are also collected and eaten.
such as fresh-water crabs are also collected and eaten.
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