Comments on: Pasalubongs (Gifts) from China…

By: Elizabeth r.valerio

Elizabeth r.valerio — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:59:59 +0000

wants to buy the fruit not the juice POMEGRANTES OR POMEGRANITES if you know were to by it let me know

By: jencc

jencc — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:04:18 +0000

my FIL regularly goes to China for some business meetings and once he brought home a pomegrante (called it “granada”) and it looked scary. but when we ate it, it was sooooooo good, i couldn’t stop! looked exactly like your pictures!

By: bedazzle

bedazzle — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:07:15 +0000

It must have been a truly enriching experience for the Kid because I went to Beijing last year (for the first time) around November and the temperature at the Great Wall was -2 degrees centigrade. It was my first time abroad and I really enjoyed that trip. Those are beautiful pashminas, Kid, you have your parents’ taste for finer things. I remember when we went shopping in Beijing, I was advised to make tawad at 30% of the quoted price. I was so afraid na baka batuhin ako ng mga nagtitinda, but to my surprise, it worked! Kaya I brought home a couple dozen (fake) t-shirts and some scarves. Also plenty of underwear..hehehe..Hope I can go back to Beijing sometime soon.

By: Blaise

Blaise — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:09:57 +0000

Wow, The Kid is really in tune with her daddy’s mind, because I’d never think of fruit as a pasalubong from China, at least when I was still her age..

By: edel

edel — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:10:46 +0000

i remember eating pomegranate when i was young. i’m not sure if its from our garden in the province or the neighbor’s. i think my mother and aunts called it “granada.”

By: shaz

shaz — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:07:33 +0000

from where i used to live, in la trinidad, benguet, there’s local silk production, across the benguet state university, i’m not sure if it still exists, one of my classmates would bring lots of those silk cocoons dyed in different colors in school and we use it as an ornament for the christmas tree during holidays and in those cocoons are tiny wigglies…

By: cwid

cwid — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:59:36 +0000

Further to what MM mentioned earlier, here’s a video on the pomegranate trick:

https://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-by-popular-demandthe-secret.html

By: bluegirl

bluegirl — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:23:45 +0000

I learned something really interesting from a man (a Pakistani or Nepalese) whose family has been in the Pashmina business for years.

He said Pashmina wool comes from the neck portion of the goat which is why is very soft.

He said that true 100% Pashmina can pass through a woman’s ring. He took one stole off his shelf, we made sure it was 100% (price was a whooping 10,000 Baht and it still wasn’t the most expensive item in the store) and I gave him my ring (I’m a size 6) and he took one end of the scarf and pulled it through the ring till it came out. At no time did the stole look like it was straining my ring.

He said most Pashminas are made with 70-30 pashmina-silk or pashmina-nylon combination. The cheapest alternative is 100% acrylic. And though it is cheap, the acrylic version is quite soft but not as warm.

We did try the same test on the 70-30 combination and 100% acrylic. If my memory serves me right, the 70-30 reached close to half-way through. The 100% acrylic clogged my ring very early on the test.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:44:16 +0000

chi, they are “pashminas” and they were $7 each. Though most pashminas aren’t REALLY pashminas… but these ones are a great deal for $7.

By: aggy

aggy — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:01:37 +0000

the kid has fine taste just like her dad!