Comments on: A Siem Reap Market Foray — Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit et al…

By: Delma Buhat

Delma Buhat — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:07:49 +0000

the unidentified palm nuts are bettle nuts on top of the mam-in, the green heart shape vine. Bettle nuts are used for chewing nganga that goes with lime and mam-in.

The chrysanthemum leaves are probably celery that were removed from its bunch.

Nice pictures and sensitive eyes. Reminding me of my rich Asian resource.

By: Delma Buhat

Delma Buhat — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:02:50 +0000

Makopa is the Tagalog name for the Malaysian apple. Yes, I never saw the green makopa here in The Philippines. The yellow tart? Isn’t it a kind of semi-riped mangoe? very crispy and less sour that goes with sugar and salt.

By: dorismaclaren

dorismaclaren — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:22:32 +0000

Don’t we call the green tambis MACOPA at home?

By: cynthia

cynthia — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:10:20 +0000

The green tambis reminded me of the similar fruit I ave eaten in Malaysia. It has a pinkish-red color like our own native tambis but bigger and sweeter. I was ecstatic to find such fruits so I bought a kilo for my own personal consumtion. I finished the whole bag in less than thrity minutes!

By: chris

chris — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:36:35 +0000

ginger: were the seeds of the lotus small like black poppy or sesame seeds only they’re round? then as you push the seeds out of the sac, you suck it from the opening and the tart taste invades the taste buds. i remember a boardmate from infanta, quezon who brought some to let us taste the unusual fruits and produce from her province.

mr. mm: those looked like aratilis at first glance! however you mentioned they were tart, so i thought of our own “butuan.” di ba parang ganoon? thanks for bringing us around the market in combaodia. you make us want for more.

By: iya

iya — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:40:17 +0000

hi MM.wonderful tour of the market. i also always buy makrud limes whenever i can, hoping to plant the seeds but all past attempts have been futile.one time even had “cuttings” carefully wrapped in my suitcase, but not one thrived. my thai friends would then just gift me with a plant or two but these would also die eventually inspite of constant care. hard to grow, slow grower, hard to maintain – but i love looking at the 8-shaped leaves.

By: sonia

sonia — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:34:55 +0000

thanks MM. so that is how they are called — pea eggplants. will visit that post.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:11:48 +0000

sonia, yes, they did have thai pea eggplants there and I did have a photo but didn't include it in this post. I did a post on thai pea eggplants years ago, here. :)

By: sonia

sonia — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:47:35 +0000

a very fascinating veggie i saw in the siem reap market were round, miniscule eggplants the size of a small thumb. i ate some in a dish served in a restaurant and they tasted like the eggplants we have here.

you may failed to see them MM or else you would have surely photographed them .
but thanks for all the wonderful photos — i missed seeing them for myself

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:24:01 +0000

Doddie, that was what I thought, I used to have it in soups at Japanese restaurants…