back, back, back from the land of fabulous local dairy products, beautiful produce, disastrous haircuts and a brief encounter with a german biker, and lovely native lasses who bestowed me with a bouquet of curry leaves. yay, curry leaf princess! i've been looking for those.
(and all of these, too)
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back from where the green banana met the curry leaf princess.
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5/14/2006 11:28:00 PM
Ok, that last photo makes me cry - you lucky thing! The markets must be so much fun to walk around! What a great way to spend a couple of hours! :)
5/15/2006 12:46:00 AM
langka!!!!!! mangga!!!! indian mango!!!!! pakwan!!!!! i thought the indian mango was cainito, initially. lol
5/15/2006 01:00:00 AM
Welcome back! Those curry leaves look so much better than the sorry ones I bought last time. All that fruit looks amazing - can't wait to hear more about your trip!
5/15/2006 02:33:00 AM
oooooh i miss the philippines! the fruit stands were so wonderful.
5/15/2006 12:02:00 PM
hi ellie! i know it's almost completely impractical to go shopping at the markets when i'm usually there for only a few days, but they are so irresistible.
kayenne, i think that's durian, langka has smaller, greener spikey things. rather would have the mangoes anyway :D
hi cathy, unfortunately i had to freeze them to bring them back, so i don't know how nice they will be when i finally use them. i wish i had more to report regarding the trip, but i don't. although, at a couple places i went, there were women with cameras and tabletop tripods taking photos of food; one of my friends wanted me to ask what blogs they had :) heee. we're *everywhere*
hi reese! aren't they? really spoiled for choice--if i was there longer, i would've bought the lot.
hi chas, that's wonderful that you accompany your grandmother to the market. i'm sure she appreciates the company, and i'll bet you've got a wonderful selection of produce where you are.
5/15/2006 12:47:00 PM
I freeze them all the time because don't use them quickly enough. One of my cookbooks always calls for fresh or frozen curry leaves and always specifies a slightly larger number of frozen versus fresh leaves. I'm sure the flavor is diminished somewhat by freezing, but I can't tell.
5/15/2006 02:29:00 PM
that's good if you can't tell, right? i bought a couple of plants to grow at my mom's house in the province, so next time i'm out there, i'll see how they're faring.
5/15/2006 04:17:00 PM
Great blog, I lived in Japan for a year and now work at one of Bill Granger's restaurants so a lot of your food is deliciously familiar! I only lament the lack of good Mexican in Australia...
5/16/2006 03:12:00 AM
What pretty pictures. I will have to research those curry leaves. They sound very interesting.
5/16/2006 12:47:00 PM
hello carolyn, thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. that's a shame that there isn't much decent mexican food in australia, it seems like it is such a food mecca right now, and so much is already represented. surely good mexican food can find a home there!
acornbud, i don't know much about curry leaves, but often see it as an ingredient in the indian cookbooks i've picked up recently. i'm eager to try them soon.
5/16/2006 05:30:00 PM
oh yeah..durian! eeeeewww... good thing i can't smell it from here. langka's stem isn't that big.
5/16/2006 06:50:00 PM
Santos,
Manila again? Sheesh. =)
5/17/2006 01:52:00 AM
oh my god i am seriously SICK from laughing about the haircut. your voice is so wonderful.
you know, when someone else is suffering a bad haircut, you think, oh it's just hair, it'll grow, not to worry. but i can remember coming home from a haircut i hated and BAWLING my eyes out. (as, like, an adult.)
at first i was wanting to see pix of the bad haircut. (becuz after all, isn't that something you'd like to post?) but then i realized you did it all with your writing...
5/17/2006 04:59:00 AM
i just want to travel with you. welcome back!
5/17/2006 08:58:00 PM
green bananas are everywhere on guam!
5/18/2006 02:26:00 PM
kayenne, it's funny how if you are away from something long enough, you might come to miss it. i certainly am not fond of the smell of durian, but i miss it when it's not mixed in with the other scents at the marketplace--it's one of those distinctly asian marketplace smells that you can't find in any other part of the world.
reid, manila again. (laughing) you gotta problem with that?
tg! i knew you'd *get* the whole hair thing. it was a lot more funny (and more offensive) than i was willing to write about--i'm always surprised at who finds these entries and then alerts the people in question--but you get the idea.
is it bad that i think that my hair looking like adrian grenier's is infinitely better than it looking like j.love's? it could be worse. it could look like p.dink's.
maria! i want to travel with you. let's go to that aquarium in san pedro with baby blogger!
anon, they are! although right now they are all yellow :)
5/19/2006 12:39:00 PM
Welcome back Santos!
DURIAN! I love fresh durian. I never know something that smelt so bad could taste to good.
5/19/2006 12:56:00 PM
hi bex! hahaaaaaa, that could sound like you're talking about something nasty, you know. although yes, durian's smell is totally evil. i meant the other kind of nasty.
5/21/2006 06:19:00 PM
S,
You're just so lucky to be able to get away so often...I'm jealous! Besides, I heard Manila has cleaned up a lot since I was last there in 1987. (Been too long!)
5/26/2006 12:55:00 AM
HELP!! does anyone know the tagalog or kapampangan word for curry leaves or does it even grow in the phlippines?
5/26/2006 01:42:00 AM
jinggay, i don't know the tagalog or kapampangan name, but i bought these at salcedo market. they sell just the leaves, and the plants as well. i bought two of the plants and they are doing well.
6/30/2006 11:48:00 PM
What do you cook with curry leaves? (Excuse my ignorance.) I do live in Manila, and we have 2 curry trees thriving in the garden -- and we never thought to cook with them before.
7/01/2006 01:10:00 AM
miles, i'm as ignorant, so no worries :) i've seen curry leaves called for as an ingredient in numerous indian and indonesian dishes (not just curries), but haven't tried any of them. yet :) i'm sure there's a filipino recipe out there that calls for it, i just have to find it.
do you use the plant for anything? medicinal purposes maybe?
7/01/2006 01:04:00 PM
Purely ornamental, to be honest. But since you asked, it got me curious & I did a bit of google-ing. Found some great resources: http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Murr_koe.html; http://kurma.net/essays/e8.html; http://www.asiafood.org/. All culinary and botanical, no medicinal so far. Thanks!
7/24/2006 03:07:00 AM
I like the green langka and mangga, the market photo
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