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, 30 Aug 2008 07:48:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pakwan-watermelon#comment-174 Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:56:08 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pakwan-watermelon#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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