28 small portion in Nanjing, China
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Galangal
My mum had big bushes of this rhizome, and I knew it as the Blue ginger or lam keong.
Whenever she braised ducks or belly of pork, she would tell be to dig a
sliver of it. It is very difficult to dig the rhizome in the dirt. Your
hands get all muddy and the rhizome is very tough to cut. You have to
be careful not to dig too much, otherwise you injure the plant. We kept
our own ducks, and we slaughtered a lot of them. So there was a lot of
digging and muddied hands. Mum She says it helps to remove the gamey
smell of the duck.
I too, grew a big bush in the NTU gardening
club allotment. It is more than eight feet long. I don't use it because
my husband didn't like it's flavour. So well did I grow it? It was for
nostalgia.
In Singapore, it is called Galangal
, But it has different names in the different South East region. It is
grown for culinary and medicinal uses. The Malays and Indonesian use it
for their fried rice Nasi Goreng,
it is a must in the Thai Tom Yum soups. The Vietnamese use it in their
braised pork like my mum did. You can buy them as a whole root, or cut
or powdered.
As a medicinal use, in the Southeast area, mix with
lime juice and drink it as a tonic. In man’s quest for youth, some
drink it claiming its prowess as an aphrodisiac, and a stimulant. Galangal oil is also used regularly in various forms of oils for anointing.
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This was a very formal event. Here he is wearing the formal attire of a royal official of the Ming Dynasty. It was a black silk top on top of a black silk gown.
Mum made his cake. An aunt brought some red chinese cutting of auspicious words. Making it a perfect fusion of East and West. For breakfast, all of us were served with sweet long noodles. yes, you read it right, the sweetness signifying a sweet life, and long noodles for long life to all who ate this noodles.
There was great feasting, and hundreds of guest were invited. My dad told me that at the birthday of a very healthy and successful person, people like to come to these parties. Some even gate crash. They believe in taking away a bit of the luck of this birthday boy. They will take away uneaten food to share with their family at home.
Vice versa, if the birthday person was a sickly person, people will avoid going to the party. It is seen as taken home the bad luck of the sick person.
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