Comments on: Boiled Peanuts

By: Mila

Mila — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:43:06 +0000

My father and I were the boiled peanut fanatics at home. He’d buy them in Sta. Cruz, and we’d demolish a pound of the stuff while watching tv or reading.
I remember how thrilled I was to find boiled peanuts for the first time in the US one year. Little things like that make a place more like home. Now, if only I could find some darn chicharon here in China.

By: maddie

maddie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:34:05 +0000

I used to buy anything from street vendors and eat food sold by manangs and what we would call “la constra” for carenderias at construction sites beside our office building. But that was many moons ago until i got hepatitis which scared the hell out of me.

I still love eating boiled peanuts but only of the homemade kind.

By: Jake Speed

Jake Speed — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:14:22 +0000

I never really thought about the dirty water that was used til you mentioned it :). But there were times I was compelled to buy a cup or two from the lads with their cariton brimming with boiled peanuts, meandering through the cars in the metro traffic.

By: EbbaBlue

EbbaBlue — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:12:59 +0000

I am really glad that now there’s alot of different Asian Supermarket close by my area (I live in Houston, Tx). I get to buy boiled peanuts from these groceries, usually still piping hot. And also they sell fresh harvested peanuts too, mostly planted by the Vietnamese in the area. About fifteen years ago though, (there’s not much Asians in the community), I boiled peanuts myself and share them to my officemates; not only they were leary eating it, but some of them actually told me directly that it was something they wouldnt eat again. It was something new to them. Now in North Carolina in was a different story. They love boiled peanuts there, but they cook it way, way soft and mushy, and also too salty.

By: letty

letty — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:02:33 +0000

The best to boil peanuts is ..wash then soak died peanuts over night w/ salt ..then discard old water ..use fresh water boiled them for and hour till tender..

By: ta

ta — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:31:32 +0000

When I have a craving for boiled peanuts and it is not in season,I buy the dry roasted peanuts with the shell from Chinatown and boil it for one hour.It’s really good.

By: Clarissa

Clarissa — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:31:38 +0000

Like Junb, I used peanuts before as practice in learning how to use chopsticks when I was a kid!

I think the peanuts sold on the street was more of the the “nabilad sa araw” kind of problem. On my trips to and from school before, I pass by Valle Verde area where they sell the nuts. The traffic was so bad I ended up buying some peanuts and didn’t heed any warnings about it. I was miserable after that. My tummy was upset for a while.

By: kaye

kaye — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:11:23 +0000

Lannie, when I was kid, I saw something on a television show (I’m not sure if it was 5 and up, Chikiting Patrol or another kiddie program) that Taho wouldn’t form if the container or the ingredients are dirty. I guess that’s true because they were interviewing a Taho vendor / maker.

Yeah, parents wouldn’t allow their kids to buy food in the streets. Same as my mom.

Wow! Peanuts and Coke! Yum Yum! :)

By: atbnorge

atbnorge — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:37:44 +0000

@Robert Vicencio & Jack, I also used to buy boiled peanuts and corn in Teresa, Rizal and don’t forget the DUHAT and SINGKAMAS!…This makes three of us who’d been on the same route!

I ate peanuts even when they were raw or just sun dried. I learned to appreciate healthy home cooked afternoon snack from my maternal grandmother thus making me a mom who doesn’t like bags of chips in the house.

MM, it’s wild strawberry season here and it’s heaven!

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:34:43 +0000

I love boiled peanuts, but watch out, overeating them can cause gout attacks.