Yu wan -
Big pella pis same wite wun (Barramundi will do)
Tu spun bilong ol, same gi (ghee)
Tu big pela unon
Tu big pela ka lick
Tu krush im one smal pela ginger same kola grass
For tispun koryanda
Tu tispun kumin
Tu tispun elo stuf (or Tumeric)
Sal, makim tas gud
Won smal pela pepa, yu kutim gud same unon (or cut up capsicum!)
Mabi yu likum burn bakside, yu putim sum chili
Mike's Tip
I likim gud kari pis!
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| Fijian
Fish
Synthesis
(Or
Number One Long Pela Kai Kai Long Pis, Belong Me)
Fiji
Islands
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Jason (Mack) M.
MacKinnon |
| Mack
has been a friend since school days. We were together for a year,
with my first cousin Rob Wright, in Form 5 (1964) at Suva Grammar
School at Veiuto, Suva.
My strongest recollection of those days, no it's not the school,
is of Rob and me helping Jason build one of his outboard boats
under his house in the Domain in Suva. We received regular refreshments
from Mrs Mack, I recall. The boat was a concept design with a
central stearing console and ribbed sides - a first for Fiji!
Jason later used the boat to help out on the Rewa River during
the floods one year, transporting none other than the Prime Minister
of Fiji at the time. Mack currently lives and works in his "boathouse"
in Southport, Queensland, where he crafts boats, furniture, Grandfather
clocks, and anything else you ask him to design. Such is the creativity
of this master craftsman from Fiji. Jason remains a true friend
of mine. Knowing of my interest in cooking, and being a regular
visitor to our hot food shop in Southport, on 11 April 1989 he
crafted this recipe for my 40th birthday, unknowingly as his contribution
to Mike's AsiaPacific Kitchen!
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Yu makim -
Yu katim
big pela
pis to smal pela pis - Yu takim bone and chuckim.
Nex
- yu putim pis in bol an mixim same time sal, elo stuf, kumin,
koryanda, ginger same kola grass - yu levim same time drink one
pela beer - yu sturim gud.
Nex
- yu litum fire, makim hot.
Nex - yu putim pis in ol an kukim small time an takim out an putim
side, levim.
Nex - in same pela ol yu putim onun, ka lick, an yu kukim til
same kola brun wun. Then yu putim smal pela pepa an backside burna.
Yu stirim gud. Smel gud ha? Yu putim tu one pela wata same size
XXXX (Queenslanders only!). Now yu kukim slo, yu tasim (OK?).
I
forgetim - yu needim wite wun yam (spuds!). Yu kutim smal al same
hienze an addim kuik. Yu kukim tu.
OK
- Yu redi? Yu
bilum rice gud? Rice stickum pot no gud. All same wife in bed.
Nex - yu takim pis (yu kukim befor - remember?) an yu putim in
kari an stirim slo, slo, slo, or pis im al buga up. Yu putim smal
pela garim masala (me forgetim that pela tu).
Nex
- Yu pis (s) on fire an putim kari in basin an you putim on flor
- yu rich pela true putim table. Yu putim on top of kari smal
pela parsley - makim luk gud. Married man eat kari - single man
eat parsley.
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