The Serumpun Codex · River life and insects
Tekuyung
River snails gathered and cooked by longhouse families.
The entry
- Name
- Tekuyung
- Other names
- River snail; tekuyung panjai, the long snail; tekuyung minyak; tekuyung pasang
- Scientific name
- Not yet identified: tekuyung is a general word for river snail
- What it is
- River snails gathered and cooked by longhouse families.
- Knowledge from
- Longhouse families, as at Ulu Budu, Saratok.
- How it is used
- Tekuyung panjai, the long snail, is gathered among pebbles and fallen leaves in clean streams; tekuyung minyak, with a shorter shell, is caught with bait.
- In the French Borneo kitchen
- Tekuyung pasang in the overture, and a snail glace in Course I, River, at Osaka.
- Season and place
- Tekuyung panjai, the trumpet-shaped kind, is gathered in clear streams and small rivers in Sarawak, among pebbles, fallen leaves and sticks in the water, with no bait needed. One family gathered it at Ulu Sungai Budu, about two hours' drive from Pakan. No season is recorded.
- Codex Alimentarius
- No Codex standard
- Medicinal knowledge
- Held privately by the community
- Consent
- Given, recorded by CHASS, 30 October 2026
Still to be confirmed: who shared it with Serumpun and conservation status.
Sources
Added to the Codex on 1 November 2026. Sources last checked on 1 November 2026.
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How to cite this entry
Serumpun Sarawak (2026) ‘Tekuyung’, The Serumpun Codex, ed. James Won. Available at: https://www.chefjameswon.com/serumpun/codex/tekuyung/ (sources checked 1 November 2026).
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