Chimbridge Singlish Dictionary

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noun

1. the edible* seeds of the Pangium edule tree, also known as kepayang in Malay, native to Southeast Asia.^[1] It is famously used as one of the main ingredients in traditional Peranakan dishes like ayam buah keluak, as well as more modern creations such as buah keluak fried rice.
   *Buah keluak has to be boiled, buried, and soaked for up to forty days before culinary use, to draw out the toxic hydrogen cyanide naturally present in the raw nuts.