@And12-X2 thank you for our beautiful word dear. I just hope they can give you some knowledge about us here. Is any of these plants available at your place?
Another amazing post @Sophia_Cambodia I love your photo quality a lot. What camera do you use take all these nice photos? Really great. Some plants are found in our country also. But normally we do not eat them. I saw a soup photo, what is that? And how to make that? Is it spicy? Thanks for sharing this nice post and tagging me. Regards.
@MukulR all photos are taken by phone only. The first photo by iPhone 7plus and the rest are by OPPO.
Thank you for beautiful and kind compliments.
The soup is made by using Kandieng or Water primrose stem. They are bitter so in order to make a soup, you have to cut then very small - then put them in mortar until it almost become texture, then you rinse it, all bitter taste goes with the water and you only take the rest to put in the soup. It can be in Kokor (Mixed soup) or Sour soup. It does not need to add other vegetables into this soup.
Thanks a lot for all the information @Sophia_Cambodia That is very much healthy I think. Bitter vegetables are good for health. Am I right? Thanks once again for this nice post with amazing photos, description and other things. Regards.
@MukulR you are warmly welcome. I am very happy with your engagement and that you also have seen them. However, why people there donβt eat these plants? Do you know?
I do not know the actual reason why we do not eat them @Sophia_Cambodia Maybe, it is our years-long tradition not to eat them. And it is the same everywhere. For example, we eat something which people in Cambodia do not eat. We are not habituated of eating them. Thanks for your interest. Regards.
@MukulR Humm I was thinking maybe they donβt know they are edible? Anyway, from the civil war people almost ate anything so that they could survive because they were starved to death. I think that might be one of the reason we eat many things because we know they taste good and they are edible.
I agree with you @Sophia_Cambodia this maybe one of the reasons of eating the plants in Cambodia. We do not know the way of eating some of them. If we can adapt our way of cooking and eating the plants I think they will be popular in our country also. Regards.
@MukulR right dear, maybe the eating tradition has been here longer than of the war and that we have so many types of plants?.
Came to think of it, I wonder how they test and do research, what can be eaten and what cannot be. Interesting!
Some plants are very bitter - how come they can find ways to get rid of those tastes? Some plants are worth eating raw and some need to be cooked to eat⦠I am beginning to be curious now
One time, I read some article and they mentioned about tea. About 5000 years ago, tea leaves were plenty and people were boiling water near the tree. Then, tea leaves drop in the pot - when they drink it, it tastes really good so they knew that they can drink tea.
@MAHBUB_HYDER you are warmly welcome. I only have one more post of this series - Medical plants.
For the unknown - I would suggest you take the English names for Google Search - I am sure the pictures come up. I hope they bring you a bit of knowledge in regards to plants! Thank you for reading too dear.
@TusharSuradkar very happy you enjoyed the post. Are there any similar plants that you also eat over there? And you eat them also or not really? @MukulR and @MAHBUB_HYDER
said there are some same plants exist there but nobody eat them.
@TusharSuradkar interesting to see how they are cooked in a different way. We donβt use lotus stem in curry but as normal boiled dish. I cooked once or twice the lotus tube and really love it.
