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Vietnamese named vegetable


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~K

Thank you as well for the conversational haitus. I generally refrain from speach during gustation. There are those who attempt both at the same time. I find it coarse and vulgar.

Big Dan Teague

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now you're driving me insane! i wish you'd taken a photo of this thingie. 'wei ting' ...wei ting....i'm going insane here! :) hahah... at first i thought it was 'Khoai Cao' [taro], but taro is purple. batata ['Cu San'] is crunchy and solid white on the inside so that's not a match. what the heck IS this? :) for sure it's a root, innit?

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Did it look like this?

http://www.melissas.com/images/products/196a.jpg

The Vietnamese call taro root: khaoi mon

Have your friend write the word of the vegetable in the native language, then take a digital picture of it or scan it in and post it here. Does she know how it is grown and what the plant looks like?

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Thank you as well for the conversational haitus. I generally refrain from speach during gustation. There are those who attempt both at the same time. I find it coarse and vulgar.

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Thank you as well for the conversational haitus. I generally refrain from speach during gustation. There are those who attempt both at the same time. I find it coarse and vulgar.

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aha! i looked high and low now that you provided the photo and its scientific name [Xanthosoma sagittifolium]. the name in VN is 'Khoai Mon'. sorry no recipes but i've had it in savoury soup/dessert. i prefer it as dessert though.

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Thank you as well for the conversational haitus. I generally refrain from speach during gustation. There are those who attempt both at the same time. I find it coarse and vulgar.

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It's definitely taro; the brown flecks you mentioned are typical. It's also used a lot in Cyprus, where it's cooked like a potato, and never cut but rather chipped into wedges. It's also never washed after peeling because it gets slick. The roots get quite large; at a certain age they begin producing offsets (which is what you have).

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From what I have read about this veggie, it seems strange my friend used this with hamburger and carrots in spring rolls.

Raw!?

It can be pretty hard to tell the various "Elephant Ear" plants apart, especially when they are just tubers. Well, even after they grow up, they can be some of the toughest plants to differentiate.

The "malanga" name can also be confusing because it can be used for different plants depending on the second word. "malanga blanca" and "malanga lila" are different species of Xanthosoma. Malanga can also sometimes refer to taro.

Click for a round up of many of the names various edible relatives of Taro go by in different cultures.

BTW, your tuber looks like Taro (Colocasia esculenta) to me.

-Erik

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