https://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. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pakwan-watermelon#comment-130838 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:28:10 +0000 /?p=33#comment-130838 during the watermelon season, its normal for us to stock around half a dozen watermelons and last summer it was mostly the yellow variety.

]]> https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/pakwan-watermelon#comment-174 Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:56:08 +0000 /?p=33#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.

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