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Originally Posted by Brazen_NL
Okay ... now I'm curious (which I already was because I wanted to see the market).
Funny, though, I hate going to markets myself, but am always interested in what's on offer.
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My curiosity was piqued the first time I wandered through, and couldn't identify 75% of what I was seeing. Perhaps understandable with Thailand's 60-75 different prepared main entrees on offer, but I couldn't even recognize half of the produce I was seeing! Five or six were different types of basils (but I didn't know which was holy basil/thai basil/sweet basil (NOT Italian Sweet basil) Lemon basil, Pra Kao basil... OK, no problem...
But the long stemmed stuff that looks somewhat like spinach but isn't, and there are 5-6
different long stemmed veggies! Things that look like slightly oversized green peas, but aren't, half a dozen different rhizomes that look like ginger, but aren't, little round lumpy green balls that you can't eat, but you can use the skin to make curries.... Fruits that defy imagination! Until I took the cooking class, I really had very little idea of just what all this stuff was, or how to use it.
Stitchawl