When the forest is your supermarket, you won’t go hungry.
In the industrial town of Bintulu, residents unable to afford rent have found refuge on empty land. Clearing trees to build makeshift homes and growing their own food in the process, they make simple yet tasty meals that make the most of the meagre income they earn from manual labour jobs.
They show us the absolutely scrumptious dishes whipped up using their free-range chickens and river fish, the flowers and buds of bananas and papayas planted behind their homes, and sourced bamboo shoots and wild plants from the forests in their backyards, just as their Iban ancestors have done for generations.
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About Slumfood Millionaire: Good food does not need to be expensive. These cooks from slums in the provinces of Asia show us how they work with limited resources and still make the most mind-blowing, mouth-watering dishes.
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