Instructions: Method

Boil the banana leaf for 5 minutes. Stir-fry rice with shallots and garlic. Marinate pork with five-spice powder, salt, pepper and sesame oil. Set aside. Lightly fry the octopus and dried shrimps with shallots. Set aside to cool.

Fold the banana leaf into a triangle shape. Place the glutinous rice on it, followed by pork, dried shrimps, octopus and shredded black fungus. Top off with rice again and wrap into pentagon shape.

Boil over slow fire for 8 hours or until cooked.

If you would like to email yourself the recipe for later use, or share the recipe with your friends or family, enter the email addresses below and this recipe will be emailed to you and others as well.