Tropical fruit / Banana
Thai name:
Kluai
Scientific
name: Musa sapientum L.
Season: all
year Bananas are
perhaps the most popular of all tropical fruits, and Thailand
has about 20 different varieties, ranging from fragrant,
sweet little "finger bananas" to large specimens with thick golden
skins. The fruit is also among the most versatile and turns up
at Thai meals in numerous forms besides fresh at the peak of ripeness.
When young
and green, they may be eaten raw as a vegetable with a
spicy sauce; more developed, but still unripe, they are sliced,
dried in the sun, and fried for a snack. Bananas are also
grilled and soaked with syrup (kluai ping), boiled in coconut
milk with salt and sugar (kluai buat chi), boiled in syrup
(kluai chuam), smoked in the peel (kluai phao),
and turned into golden fritters (kluai khaek).
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Jan Garanoz
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Chiang Rai, 57000 Thailand
Created: September 1, 1995
Last updated: September 14, 2009