http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pakwan-watermelon A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:54:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pakwan-watermelon/comment-page-1#comment-130838 jorp Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:28:10 +0000 /?p=33#comment-130838 during the watermelon season, its normal for us to stock around half a dozen watermelons and last summer it was mostly the yellow variety. during the watermelon season, its normal for us to stock around half a dozen watermelons and last summer it was mostly the yellow variety.

]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pakwan-watermelon/comment-page-1#comment-174 Rina Hubilla Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:56:08 +0000 /?p=33#comment-174 this article just makes me remember the melon tagalog (green elongated, looks like a fat zucchini) of my childhood (usually made into a drink with milk and sugar). I think this is one crop that is slowly disappearing into oblivion - hopefully I am mistaken! I sometimes see small quantities of these in the watermelon stands along Bulacan but have never seen them in the Manila markets. this article just makes me remember the melon tagalog
(green elongated, looks like a fat zucchini) of my childhood (usually made into a drink with milk and sugar).
I think this is one crop that is slowly disappearing into oblivion – hopefully I am mistaken! I sometimes see small quantities of these in the watermelon stands along Bulacan
but have never seen them in the Manila markets.

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