Local Spice and Herbs

We all learn about it in our history textbook. Where ships all over the world visit Malaysia, Malaya then in decades past for the Spice trade.

What's being used in most of the cooking we made in our daily lives? What herbs and spices are available here in Sarawak? 

Well for one Sarawak's Black Pepper is well known for its use in cooking worldwide.
As a kid, my parents and grandparent always tell us stories about how they migrate to Sarawak from China with nothing to their name except the knowledge to grow and make peppercorn, and that's how they make a living then. That was before my time. 

Today, Sarawak's Pepper industry, although not as abundant as it was back then, is still a spice recognized for its flavor and quality.
The nation even established a research center for the industry, it is from there that our black pepper can be improved and developed even further. 

Now, Sarawak's pepper is one of the things people can actually buy off at the Kuching international airport to bring home as souvenir.
So next time you visit us, bring some home. Be it whole peppercorn or black pepper sauce.

Sample of black and white pepper whole.