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Meghalaya Cuisine

The home of three Mongoloid tribes, Meghalaya has a unique cuisine of its own, different from other states in the north east of India. The common food of the people is rice with meat and fish preparations. Besides rice, they also eat millet and maize with a number of vegetables and roots. They rear goats, pigs, fowls, ducks and cows and relish their meat. They observe food taboos, for example certain clans do not take pork. The popular dishes are Jadoh, Ki Kpu, Tung-toh, and pickled bamboo shoots. Like the other tribes in the north-east, they ferment rice beer, which is a must in all the religious rites and ceremonial occasions.

Updated on 7th June, 2005