Comments on: Kasoy / Cashew Nuts, Part II

By: nocem

nocem — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:42:07 +0000

yummy…

By: rouan

rouan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:32:24 +0000

i’ve just come back home to singapore after a 3-week long trip to the philippines. i was in puerto princesa for baragatan and my goodness! the snacks are AMAZING. bastillos(?), halo-halo, polvoron, and ESPECIALLY bandi kasoy and all the other kasoy products opf palawan!!! i can’t find them anywhere in singapore, and i only have one 10php piece of bandi kasoy left. i’m saving it as long as i can but i don’t think it will last more than a week. ho ho.

By: maria edna t. cruz

maria edna t. cruz — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:24:12 +0000

It is good to find a site that we can give comments and info as well.I came all the way from mindoro just to see whether it is possible to process nuts in palawan. My deutch friend wondered why there are only small – time processor in that place when in fact 98%of nuts supply in our country comes from palawan. You are righ maria clara, it is high time these politicians think of something more FRUITFUL than just politics.

By: crissy

crissy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:26:44 +0000

They call that Bandi (I think that’s the spelling), one of my favorite pasalubongs from Coron. I like the taste of cashews, and the sugar tastes more like panucha than caramelized sugar.

By: chick

chick — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:22:19 +0000

i like the cashew nuts we bought in antipolo before.. the plain and adobo flavored ones! :D

By: Rudy

Rudy — Mon, 14 May 2007 04:52:52 +0000

An interesting discussion about Casoy (Anacardium occidentale L.). The medical benefits from eating the roasted seeds and from using prepared sap for wart removal is also taken up.
There is a big market for the roasted seeds in Kazahkstan. They like cashew nuts better than peanuts as a companion food while drinking.

By: lightheaded

lightheaded — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:40:48 +0000

Your post on finding the kasoy fruit brought to mind memories when as a kid I first tasted the fruit.

I hope you were able to try bandi, another Palawan kasoy product. It tastes better than the cashew nut brittle.

By: solraya

solraya — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:55:24 +0000

Big AL,

That was what I was referring to when I posted in the first thread about Kasuy.

I will vouch for that product :)

By: MRJP

MRJP — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:29:18 +0000

Balubad…. the term brings me back to childhood… these are sold in the market in the summer. We also went each summer to some neighbors’ yards and picked some when they were ready for picking. Me and my cousins would collect “balubad” shells/nuts in preparation for our summer picnics by the river or just for an adventurous day in the woods. We would bring some snack and lots of balubad nuts with us, a box of matchsticks, some papers to start a bonfire, a clean empty can of biscuit (we usually bore holes at the bottom for better roasting of the nuts) and will head to the woods or to the river to have picnic. We would make a bonfire out of woods and make an improvised stove and cook the balubads inside the empty can. They smelled really good each time. When they are almost burnt, we would cool them down and crack them open and eat them under a tree on a lazy summer day :) We always went to a far distance from the neighborhood each time we roasted cashew nuts, otherwise our neighbors will get mad at us, especially those who raised chickens because they say that it makes the chicken and other birds to catch a cold.

By: Big Al

Big Al — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:47:44 +0000

Here is an interesting link about a Filipino inventor who created an herbal cream preparation from cashew nuts: https://www.healthtoday.net/main_section.cfm?ID=837&section=Printer_Friendly