RESOURCE : ASEAN CULTURE & HISTORY > 23 November 2024
In Malay language, the word 'rendang' may carries several meanings;
1. to fry in general
2. to cook something with coconut oil until it dries out
3. to fry without oil
4. a specific dish made of different types of meat and cooked with spices and coconut milk until it dries out
5. 'rendang' with the 'e' pronounced as close-mid front unrounded vowel (/e/); 'exuberant' (for plants); example: 'plants with exuberant foliage'.โฝยนโพ
The history of rendang traces back to the era of ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ญ๐ in the 15th century,โฝยฒโพ when its capital was a regional centre of maritime spice trade, attracting traders from east and west. It was from this melting port of cultures, that the sophisticated Malay culinary tradition, including in meat processing techniques, were developed. Modern Rendang shows a fusion of Malay, Indian, and Portuguese culinary traditions, where it incorporates the use of coconut milk, dry spices, and chillies.โฝยณโพโฝโดโพ
The method of cooking called 'rendang' (to fry) have been mentioned in several Classical Malay literary texts associated with Melaka Sultanate, particularly ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ (14th century).
The worldโs earliest and first record of the word 'rendang' as a specific dish can be found in the ๐ป๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ก ๐ด๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ง๐โ (1500s) which recorded a certain ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (goat meat rendang).โฝยฒโพ In ๐ป๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ก ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐โ (1700s), the term 'rendang' was used as a catch-all phrase for meat dishes that are fried or stewed apart from curries (๐๐ข๐๐๐).โฝโตโพ A specific ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (rendang made of a type of saltwater clams) is mentioned in Perak chronicle, ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ข (1780s).โฝโถโพ
In foreign records, the term 'rindang' appeared in the Dutch-Malay dictionary (1623) referring to a method of frying in clarified butter or oil,โฝโทโพ while in 1701, the term 'randang' was registered in the first ever English-Malay dictionary, meaning to 'to fry'.โฝโธโพ In A Dictionary of the Malay Language (1894), it is stated that a dry curry is termed 'rendang', while a wet curry is called ๐๐ข๐๐๐ by the Malays.โฝโนโพ Rendang is also defined as 'to fry with oil and spices'.โฝยนโฐโพ
Rendang is also recorded in the ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ข ๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ข๐๐๐ (1865), where the Yang Di-Pertuan Muda of Johor served religious leaders ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (spicy rendang) and ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ (chicken rendang) following a religious ceremony in 1738.โฝยนยนโพ In A Royal Malay Banquet Menu extracted from Perak and the Malays: "Sarong" and "Kris" (1878), the Maharajah of Johor hosted a banquet where a plethora of Malay dishes were presented including ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (minced meat rendang) and ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ (a type of fish rendang).โฝยนยฒโพ
Today, there are hundreds of rendang variants which vary depending on the region and ingredients, with new variations continue to be created. In 2009, Rendang was designated as one of Malaysia's national heritages by the Jabatan Warisan Negara (JWN).
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โฝยนโพ Kamus Dewan - rendang
โฝยฒโพ A Samad Ahmad, p. 10
โฝยณโพ Boileau JP (2011), p. 228
โฝโดโพ Jackson, Annabel (2020), p. 70
โฝโตโพ Kassim Ahmad (1975), p. 507
โฝโถโพ Raja Chulan bin Hamid (1962), p. 177
โฝโทโพ Wiltens, Caspar., Danckaerts, Sebastiaan., Heurnius, Justus., Ruyl, A. C.., Hasel, Jan van. (1650), p. 6
โฝโธโพ Bowrey, Thomas (1701), Section 9
โฝโนโพ Clifford, Hugh Charles., Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1894), p. 504
โฝยนโฐโพ Clifford, Hugh Charles., Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1894), p. 499
โฝยนยนโพ Raja Ali Haji (1984), p. 258
โฝยนยฒโพ McNair, John Frederick Adolphus (1878), p.211
๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ
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