Back about three years ago I asked this question: What's this?
The more astute amongst you will have recognised it as the fruit of the coffee tree. Yes, those little berries have seeds inside which are harvested, roasted, ground up and drenched in hot water to make a delicious hot beverage we call coffee. However, these particular ones are called Coffea Liberica, and they are particularly popular in the Philippines where their strength and dark roast make what one might call an acquired taste, a brew called barako (which means 'manly'), dark and intense with just a touch of muscovado sugar.
Anyway, why, you may ask, have I suddenly posted a Name This Food! entry after three years. I don't have an answer to that. I just was struck by it this morning. Maybe I was at a loose end. But mainly I was thinking about this blog that I started in 2010 and how neglected it is. So maybe I wanted to post something just to remind the blog itself that I hadn't forgotten it.
As always with Name This Food! , I will give you a recipe, and since this post is about coffee, I will post this one for Dalgona Coffee, a whipped coffee originating from Macau, which looks like this...
And now, I'm going to give you a new Name This Food! question, in the vain hope that I will come back to this blog sooner next time. So tell me, what's this called?
Welcome back! I had to image search the above. Very interesting! I’ve heard of it, but had never seen it.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty certain that's a water chestnuts ... and this is how I know this:
ReplyDeleteI was living in Park City, Utah at the time and we had a food co-op / exchange we subscribed to. You'd get new, sometimes unique and exotic foods to try out and I received a few of these particular items in a Chinese-themed lot at one point. I had not idea what the thing was and I bit into it as an experiment.
Yikes! Very acidic and sour, if memory serves! I figured it was something that needed to be prepared - boiled or cooked somehow - in order to be palatable. I later discovered it was a water chestnut, nasty little thing raw but people eat them this way.
More power to them ...