From SW Cameroon ↔ Cross River and Akwa Ibom, Nigeria.
Pin · Bakweri country (Buea), Cameroon–Nigeria border dish · historical or cultural region, not a town
- Era
- Not dated yet
- Fold
- Leaf parcel or pillow
- Cooked
- Simmered in palm oil with smoked fish, meat, crayfish, periwinkle, pepper
Anatomy
Inside
- Dough
- Leaf-wrapped grated tuber
- Made with
- Freshly grated cocoyam rolled in cocoyam leaves
- Cooked
- Simmered in palm oil with smoked fish, meat, crayfish, periwinkle, pepper
- Size
- About 6 cm across
- Note
- A borderline case: it stretches the definition of a dumpling.
Not known yet We don’t yet have a written story, a recipe, a date for its first record, a dated or primary source or a precise place of origin for Ekwang. What we do have is below, with its sources.
Range
Where
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How sure we are
Evidence
Reasonably sure. Reference works agree, but we have not yet found a dated or primary source.
The grade comes from the project's source report and has not yet been checked source by source. How grading works.
First record No dated attestation found
Notes from the research
A cross-border dish whose name has spread across languages.
This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §5.4, the project's source report. Its grade, S secondary consensus, says how far that has been checked against a primary source.
History sources are from the atlas and not yet independently checked.
Family H
Kin
More leaf-wrapped grain parcels (separate inventions)