apeo cook something in a bamboo container

• • cook something in a bamboo container
  • • food & drink

  • • Example 274:
      

      O koopu vai o peree to apeo riori bona tabaan.

      They stuff the food into the green bamboo. (lit. (It's) the green bamboo that they stuff the food.)

      Source: Sii 40W 036

    • Example 275:
      

      Na mosi maari bona maa nava koopu, eori repaa apeo bona tabaan tabae to rake riori tea apeo: e guu, manii, kaukau, gea tabae to rake riori tea an.

      They cut some bars of koopu bamboo, and then stuff into the bamboo whatever food they like to cook: pork, possum, sweet potatoes or what they like to eat.

      Source: Sii 40W 034-035

Related entries

• See also:
  • apeapeo cook many things in a bamboo container
  • koopu¹ kind of bamboo
  • nava² bar (the section between two knots of bamboo or sugarcane) / knot of a bamboo