Comments on: Tapilan / Rice Beans

By: B

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:57:05 +0000

I bought some of these at a market in Batangas for the same price as monggo. I cooked them almost like monggo, and reserved some for mashing into a sweet paste for something like mochi.

By: tulip

tulip — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:43:31 +0000

At a local market, some actually sells it as monggo. “All kinds of monggo” are placed in a separate tupperware like containers.Ask the vendor and she’ll just say those are monggo-red,green etc. hehehe There are tapilan that are redder, and that I can mistakenly identity as azuki beans(popular in Japan).
MM, I just observed that your latest posts are mostly beans. Uric acid level alert. hehehe

By: bijin

bijin — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:19:18 +0000

hmmm, interesting. i’ll try and look for them here in japan. when you go to a natural food restaurant here, sometimes you get a choice of brown rice or rice with a lot of grains and seeds like barley, millet, soba, black soy beans, etc., mixed in it….i wonder if rice beans is one of them?????

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:46:32 +0000

They would in theory, be selling them at a loss, since they could be getting more for them in a different venue… I suppose they are high in protein as with other legumes, but yes, they do have starch, carbs and worse, a lot of sugar.