Wet Market at Cape Panwa
A few days ago, I blogged about the Mouth of a river, on the same day, I walked across the road to an open wet market. It was buzzing with life and colours, smells and curious things. I had myself lost taking a frenzy of colourful photos.
I share with you the colours of asia that captures my heart so much, speaking of which, I am often torn between the love of Europe’s soft muted tones of romanticism and Asia’s vibrant colourful life. I struggle to give my blog a colour theme, which most successful blogs do, but I find the experiences in life are too diverse and too beautiful to just stick to one tone.
So my blog is a mish-mash of colours, experiences and themes. Since its such a messy little colour theme blog, its unique like abstract art, hopefully unique like me.
This lady with her giant beans, do you think she sells magic beans to Jack?
Sweet, spicy and Seafood. 3S of Thailand’s cuisine.
This odd bundle of vegetable looks like seaweed, i’m not to sure how to cook it but I definitely would like to taste it!
Some angry skewered birds.
This soup base looks so spicy it would burn my tongue out!!
Your pick of glorious fresh seafood.
wow… that’s a whole lot of petai’s!!!! Nice colourful photos too! =)
Haha thanks! What’s Petais? The beans?
The photo of the stall selling the beans hanging in her stall are called petai (this is a Malay word). The technical word is called Parkia speciosa or stink beans. Have you tried eating them before? It does not stink when you eat but …. it is after it is digested and discharge, it does give a strong stinky peculiar smell. =P They say it is good to eat them as it helps to . This stink beans goes well with belacan (chilly shrimp paste). Wanna know how to counter this smell after eating them? =)
Ahh that’s cool oh you know what! I’ve eaten this many times before and it’s part of the Indonesian cuisines! Funny I didn’t recognize it in the pod form, usually eat just the beans 🙂 well I duno how you counter the smell even though I eat it!
When you eat this petai’s, do eat along with brinjal or eggplant dish as brinjal counters the ‘wonderful’ smell of petai. You can cook them together there 2; brinjal and petai in a dish too.
Oh I see! I usually eat petais with chilli and tempe ( fermented bean cake)
Yup… that’s nice too. Usually Petai is best to eaten with something spicy. I like mine fried with belacan. yum yum!!
I love what you wrote about colors and comparing the romantic colors of Europe Europe to Asia’s bright vividness. I completely agree. Safe journeys xo
Hi thank you! Love your sunset pic on your blog! I’m right now in Indonesia as well, at Yogyakarta. It’s lovely and I will post it up soon! Do visit goa gajah(elephant cave) I love it
What kind of bean is this and what for? So coulorful street life
Well “just a simple guy” commented it’s a bean called petai, it’s good for health but apparently really stinky when it goes out of your digestive system and I’ve seen it in Indonesian cuisine, he wrote more! I’m asking him how to counter the smell!