I te Tāone o Baoshan, i te Tāone o Tengchong, i te Porowini o Yunnan, he tokomaha te hunga e tīmata ana i ō rātou rā me te peihana pī porridge. Ehara i te mea ka makona noa te reka o te iwi o Tengchong i te pī porridge, engari ka whakatairanga anō hoki i te ahurea kai o tēnei whenua.
He āhua koura te poro pī Tengchong, ā, he ngawari te kakano. I te wā e kai ana, kokohia he pūnu o te poro pī koura ki runga i tētahi pōro raihi pūangi, ringihia ki te hinu tiri kakara, ka tauhiuhia ki ngā aniana tapatapahi hou me ngā pīnati kuru. I a koe e whakaranu ana, ka pupuhi te kakara o ngā pīni, ngā aniana, me te hinu i te hau. He reka te kakano maeneene me te tae kanapa o te mangai.
Ko ngā kai mō te parāoa pī he wai me te pī noa iho, engari ehara i te mea ngāwari te tukanga whakarite. Tuatahi, ka tīpakohia ngā pī kounga teitei, ka rumakina, ka hurihia kia āta. Ka whakaranua te paraoa pī pai ki te wai kia puta he paraoa matotoru. Kātahi ka whakamahanatia mārire tēnei paraoa ki roto i te kōhua. I te pikinga o te pāmahana, ka huri te paraoa hei ranunga maeneene, ngawari, ka puta he kakara pīni māmā. Hei whakamutunga, ka honoa ki ngā mea kakara ahurei pērā i te hinu tiri, te hinu pepa Sichuan, te hinu kūmara māti kua whakamāoatia, te pīnati kuru, me ētahi atu, ka puta he peihana parāoa pī Tengchong e whakaharikoa ana i ngā kare ā-roto i te tae, te kakara, me te reka.
He reka nui te pīni i hangaia i tēnei ara, engari kāore e hinuhinu, me te kakara pīni kaha engari kāore e tino kaha. I ia ngau ka puta te kakano maeneene, ngawari o te paraoa pīni, me te mea kei te kanikani i te pito o te arero. Ka tāpirihia e ngā mea kakara ahurei he paparanga reka - te werawera o te hinu tiri, te ahua whakangoikore o te hinu pepa Sichuan, me te hou o te hinu pūmua māti kua whakatōkia hei hanga i tētahi reka e kore e warewaretia.
He maha ngā huarahi hei kai i te pī porridge. Ko ētahi e pai ake ana ki te "maoa", me te paku tote hei pupuri i tōna reka taketake me te reka o tōna reka pumau. Ko ētahi e pai ana ki te tāpiri i ngā momo mea hei tāpiri. Ko ngā tohunga e mōhio ana ki te mauri o te pī porridge ka wehea te porridge kia rua ngā wāhanga: tētahi me ngā mea kakara, tētahi kāore. I te kai, ka kohia e rātou ngā nūru raihi mai i te taha kua whakaranua, ā, ki te tino werawera, ka inumia e rātou te taha kāore i whakaranua - he wheako tino pai! Hei tāpiri, ka taea te tāpiri ki ngā keke raihi, ki ngā poraka raihi, ki ngā rākau paraoa parai rānei, he tino reka katoa. Ko te kakano pakari engari ngawari o ngā rākau paraoa parai, te kakara wera rānei o ngā poraka raihi tunutunu, me te reka hou, momona o te pī porridge, ka ea ai ngā wawata katoa mō te kai i roto i te ngau kotahi.
I Tengchong, ehara te pī porridge i te rihi noa iho, engari he tikanga noho. E whakaponohia ana ko ia tangata whenua o Yunnan e noho tawhiti ana i te kāinga, e pupuri ana i tētahi peihana pī porridge wera e koropupū ana i roto i ō rātou ngākau. Ki te toro atu koe ki Tengchong mō te wā tuatahi, he aha e kore ai e whakauru atu ki te mano tini o te ata, ka whakamātau i tēnei reka tuku iho o te nostalgia, ka wheako i te mahana me ngā tikanga ā-rohe o te iwi Tengchong?
Wā tuku: Mei-13-2026
