Wuninang Multicultural Daluhan Workshop

「Sharing beauty of simplicity in Bunun food culture」

How is a typical day like for a Bunun family? In the morning, Meihua cooks doughballs, a traditional Chinese dish in Bunun style, for her husband Hu and her son Xiaosien, before they start their agricultural work. The doughballs are mixed with flower buds of mountain litsea, which are a traditional ingredient in Bunun tribe, with a refreshing fragrance of lemon. After the breakfast, the family starts to work on their farm of pumpkins, millet, red quinoa, Solanaceae and wild Alianthus prickly ash. Meihua and her husband place mash bags on heading millet and remove the grass in the pumpkin field. They would pick young leaves of red quinoa and blanch, chill and mix them with other food to make Bunun-style salad. At dawn, the family may go home with a ripe pumpkin, steam it and place smoked dried flying fish given by their Amis friends on the pumpkin. The sweet flavor and salty fragrance of the flying fish are a perfect combination of complementary flavors. They may start a fire with some wood to boil a pot of chicken soup with pineapple, Solanaceae and drink it with home-made sausages made with Alianthus prickly ash and sweet fermented millet. “Wuninang” means “thank you and bless you” in Bunun language and sharing simple, delicious home food is the best reward for hard work of a day.