Nadan

Nadan (from Undughu naadą́ą́ʼ, 'enemy's food') is rice cuisine and related culture in the Undughu civilisation and the cultures influenced by it, today mainly the Unscan Moujique people in the Lutoborsk. Undughu tradition held that rice was introduced from the Chotarians, though the southern branch of the Proto-Undughu and later the Unscans were known to have cultivated and extensively consumed it, before the crop fell out from staple status for these alien associations by the 7th century. Eventually many cities zealously banned rice cultivation and consumption, either in all affiliated lands or within the nasty; rice grains were considered unclean and disgusting to handle.

Rather, the Undughic cultures chose to primarily make bakery and confectionery products using glutinous rice. This involved a degree of artisanry that could confer onto it a dignified faction, while the products had an obviously very different character to slave feed. The most ubiquitous and celebrated forms include a rice cake made by pounding steamed rice; pastries made from rice flour; steamed rice shaped without further processing; and fermenting into a pudding. These may in turn be used to make dumplings or stuffings; be deep-fried, or frozen; or served with other dishes. Rice wine is also somewhat consumed in Unscan cuisine. Preparing nadan is not just a major communal activity, but also tied up with finer aspects of local society: regions or communities that once practiced rice bans restrict the handling of nadan to particular families, for whom rice confectionery is a hereditary profession and specialty. In folklore humans are also never portrayed as working with nadan, with various grotesquely deformed creatures derived from stereotypes of other peoples monopolising these activities, namely pounding rice cakes. Despite these peculiarities connected to the hatred of the crop itself, nadan is usually widely enjoyed without prohibition and artisans are well-respected members of society.