Hard-shell lobster is seductively aromatic, accompanied by taro, edamame, and Riesling. |
Local staples include breadfruit, arrowroot, pandanus, and taro, and are now supplemented with imported rice, flour, and sugar. |
A basic meal comprises a starch food, preferably soft or hard taro, tapioca, or rice, and a protein food, normally fish. |
The flesh of both the larger taro and eddo is white or cream-colored with pink-purple flecks. |
With a larger pond, you can have lilies or tiger lotus, maybe some taro or umbrella palm that will help shade the pond surface. |
Then I went to my favorite Malaysian restaurant for a bowl of curry mee with young tau foo, then to Ten Ren for a taro root bubble tea. |