Sui Wu’u or Bogi
Sui wu’u
or Bogi is a unique culinary from
Ngada, would certainly get addicted. Sui
Wu’u is preserved pork is traditionally mixed with cornstarch and salt
stuffed in bamboo (tuku). People who
make Sui Wu’u are skilled women. The
pork fat part cut size a fist and then washed clean. Other materials that have
been dried corn starch and salt to a nice taste. Then the material was arranged
sequentially into the bamboo that had been cleaned. It filled the double
decker, maize, meat, corn flour and meat again. And then the bamboo is place in
a rack. To produce the Sui Wu’u with
taste tempting should be kept about three months recently opened to eat. It
could also be less or more than three months. The skills are needed due to Sui Wu’u produces quality and delicious,
to be able to mix the ingredients of meat, flour and salt with the proper
rules. The do not right mix not only can make Sui Wu’u or Bogi tasted
delicious, but also easily damage or wormy, thought stored for months. There is
a motto; the longer stored the more tasty and delicious to eat. Sui Wu’u raises distinctive aroma. If
the meat is burnt, people can distinguish the scent Sui Wu’u with the scent of freshly killed pork. The aroma could
increase the people appetite.
The uniqueness of the Sui Wu’u or Bogi can reduce the bitter elements in the leaves of papaya and
passion fruit to be eaten. How then the burned Sui Wu’u dripping oil dropped sufficiently to papaya or passion
fruits leaves. As a result the leaves are eaten, not bitter. The manufacture of
Sui Wu’u it has meaning.
Economically, shows the meaning of their savings. The Sui Wu’u or Bogi provided
meat to indigenous people to get it when do the rainy season has coming. To
these months the events needed to get meat have no chance. So, the local people
still have the Sui Wu’u which saved
for some months ago.
In ancient times, the availability
of meat is very limited, so to eat meat usually occurs only when there are traditional
events, such as Reba, Sagi, Ka Ngadhu, Ka
Sa,o and Ka Nua. The meaning of
other customary of Sui Wu’u is that
foods are offerings to the ancestors. In the growing season, usually Sui Wu’u stored in every corner of the
garden. Its function is to repel pests that plants are free of pests and harvest
could be overflow. There is a belief of Ngadanese that when creating a Sui Wu’u no one can saw it. If someone
is watching, then taste of Sui Wu’u or
Bogi was not tasty, even can be easily damage and cannot be stored for
months. (Adapted from: www.dionbata.com )
