Papuan meals!

I just wrote about recently the Indofood and Filipino style of cooking.  Here I wanted to know of what the real Papuan food.  The photo below shows my "pembantu" ( house girl) with "singkong", called cassava in a known language in her hand.

Her name is Melince.  I got her when she was selling bananas at my front yard.  For the first time, I have to ask her to buy cassava for me so we could both eat it!  I love it!

This woody looking fruit is called singkong in Bahasa Indonesia and kamoteng kahoy in Visayan language.  You need to peel the fruit and the flesh is white and hard.  When you boil it, usually that's how the Papuan cooked it, you would see that it turns into yellow.  They said that this fruit is rich in cyanide which is very poisonous.  So there is a special process on how you peel it, cook it and prepare it!