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ANTHROPOLOGY (FOOD) NOTES

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PART SIX (31-) 32.  Saisiyat Words -  Bon 米 and Ki 旗 - Holo Borrowed? HERE . 31. HOT press pancake (China Anhui and Hungary Budapest)  Magic of IRON PART FIVE (26 - 30) 26.  Orchid Island Pigs gu'is (Hokkien borrowed word kuí-á 鬼神) HERE . 27. Hakka White-jade-radish Couplet (an example) HERE . 28. Taiwanese  草仔粿 ( tsháu-á-kué) Plains Indigenous  按啦 粿 ( ah-lê- kué) Papora  (The Kingdom of Middag) Old Name 都都 (tu-tu) . Grass cake/dumpling is typically available around the time of Qingming (Tomb sweeping) Day. Common 'grass' includes mugwort, barley grass, cudweeds and is a tradition in China, Taiwan, Japan and some others.  Plains indigenous adopted and adapted the tradition and give it a name 按啦 粿  ah-lê- kué , ‘ah' in Holo means to PRESS - wrap rice in a chosen leaf and PRESS into shape. Most appropriate name for the shape is Tamale. (This photo was taken in Taoyuan near Daxi) Intriguing is the phonetic proximity of  'kueh tutu' (a ...