What is "ulam"

Ulam may refer to:

• Ulam (salad), a type of Malay salad
• The Filipino term for the word viand or main dish. Food item usually eaten together with rice.
• ULAM, Naryan-Mar Airport by ICAO airport code
• Ulam, the language spoken by the prehistoric humans in the movie Quest for Fire
• Ulam spiral, or prime spiral. A simple method of visualizing the prime numbers that reveals the apparent tendency of certain quadratic polynomials to generate unusually large numbers of primes. Named after Stanislaw Ulam

Ulam, a traditional salad produced from the leaves of Centella asiatica, is typically eaten with anchovies, cincalok or sambal. It is recognised as a popular main dish in traditional Malay villages.

Ulam can be eaten simply as it is, or with cucumber, cabbage and eggplant. Another type of ulam is traditional ulam, in which it is used more as an ingredient, such as in nasi ulam (ulam rice), nasi kerabu (a type of bluish-coloured rice) and cooking with other vegetables. It also has its uses in Ayurvedic and traditional medicine, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.