Let's Enjoy Belitung! Get to Know Eating Bedulang, A Tradition Full of Symbols of Togetherness

Only then does the third person flip the fold so that the fourth person can use the same napkin, but on the clean side.

After the four people have finished eating, the tray is covered again with the mentudong and tudong lambak, then lifted and moved to the back or to the kitchen.

Then the tudong lambak is opened, a sign that the food in the tray has been eaten.

Salim said that eating bedulang is not only a way to enjoy food.

However, as a symbol of the application of good manners in the lives of the Belitung Malay people.

Eating bedulang also has values such as togetherness, mutual respect, cleanliness and good manners.

"As civilized and customary people we have to apply that, not just eat bedulang," he said.

(Posbelitung.co/Novita)