Tutong

Sparsely populated, Tutong is the 3rd largest district in Brunei. With its diverse culture, Tutong has managed to retain her unique lifestyle of rural Brunei.

It has abundance of natural beauty such as the white sands of Pasir Puteh, the famous beach Pantai Seri Kenangan and a beautiful lake - Tasek Merimbun. In fact Tutong has an interesting history.

Brunei map

Tutong is located in between the Brunei-Muara district and Belait District.

This the newly built tamu in the Pekan Tutong. This morning, I managed to visit the place. It was bustling with local Tutong vendors selling all sorts of stuffs and merchandises; ranging from potted plants, clothings and food. There are also a mini-mart and a wet market too.

Scanning 360 degrees around the tamu, we saw this 'makcik' selling kuih Melaya and decided to buy 2 large pieces of the kuih.

This is how the kuih Melaya a.k.a. 'apam balik' is cooked. Heat up the round flat pan...

Then pour in a mug of battered flour ...add raisins and let it bubbled up like this ..

errr ...seems that my picture is wrongly posted ..lols

Then add grounded peanuts, sugar, condensed milk and planta margerine ...hmmm not suitable for diabetes though hehehe ...


There is a food centre, so we decided to have our breakfast there. We all mian soto. We ordered telu bowls of the soto.

The soto here, particularly in Brunei itself, the taste is so different to the sotos from neighbouring countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Brunei soto taste more like soup (p/s: this is MY personal view) and is best when served with cilipadi paste.

After breakfast, we took a peep into the wet market. It has been ages that I last went to a wet market heheee ...

Wow! fresh fish...

Tempted by its freshness, we bought the upper half of a whole tuna fish. That costs us B$9.00! Woohhh so pricey lahh ...We asked the intestines to be taken out and put some ice in the palstic bags...as we were heading to KB ...don't want any fishy smell in the car :)


Maybe next time I would like to venture into the rural areas of Tutong.

Glossary:
mian * = makan (Malay) = eat (English)
telu * = tiga (Malay) = three (English)
tamu = pasar (Malay) = market (English)
cilipadi = small chillies
makcik = aunty

* Tutong words