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Fruits and nuts learning at le le pa island

OMG, it has been so long to write blog. I am so sorry if you come and visit my blog and nothing was written so long :(

I have been crazy busy with every aspects of my life. Nothing bad, many good things have been happening so I am super happy but at the same time, I've got so many things that I want to share but I can't! I have been so frustrated!

Anyway...

I still have lots of things I want to share about Vanuatu!

When we went to le le pa island, that has no electricity or supermarket. People there just grow everything.

Even though, they don't have what we have, they have abundant food

Look the mangos! I saw so many mango on the ground!

The mango is much smaller in Vanuatu I guess these are the original mango supposed to look like... No steroid or too much fertiliser.

But I was kind of sad after peeling skin with knife and get so small fresh

then I saw men just peel the skin with mouth. Wow, so easy. Since I am lady, I peel with finger and bite. no bother using knife to cut into pieces.

another great learning about treating fruits is pineapple

It is again very small so they just slice with core then eat around the core.

So much easier! just when I eat, I don't look elegant.

I saw lots of these. I was wondering what they are. unripe fruits? ?

Actually they are nuts! when you open, you can find nut inside

found out that the nuts I bought at the market!

I skewer is like $1.

It's a lots of work to get 1 skewer of nuts but so cheap. Unfortunately, I didn't like these nuts... I liked the brown nuts much more. They are both raw and very soft.

then I found these banana. plantain - the cooking banana

I saw these at the market a lot but never bought. They are much thicker than usual bananas

The village people gave me ripen planine.

You can actually eat raw ripe planine

Yes, taste like banana but more starchy.

I met a couple from Newzealand who come to Vanuatu 5 to 6 times a year, told me how to eat them

They said that simply fly and eat with toast

So I cooked in a frying pan!

Once cooked, it become yellow!

see the difference! and cooked banana become like potato but bit sour.

I ate banana lap lap at the market but it is so much fun when I can actually cook!

Vanuatu breakfast!

Very lucky that we found brown bread at local shop. In super market or market, no brown breads are sold :(

miraculously found (?) brown bread!

Also New zealand couple introduced me a wonderful gadget.

coconuts opener!

Instead of using machete, you can just insert into the coconuts. They are available in New zealand if you are interested in.

I had so much fun and learned a lot about food in Le le pa island :)

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