In the flood season, durian buds – a typical vegetable are sold everywhere, especially in Chau Doc market and Tinh Bien (An Giang) market. Durian trees grow naturally or are planted throughout the Mekong Delta province, but mostly in An Giang and Kien Giang. According to some recorded documents, durians originate from India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and in tropical and semi-tropical regions.
The durian tree also has other names such as winter melon, melancholy, salad, white oval, drought tolerant, and Indian neem. The tree is tall and straight, not picky about soil, easy to grow, fast growing, can reach a height of 15-19m. The leaves are not green, the taste is bitter, the taste is sweet, the nature is cool, the flowers are less bitter and fragrant. Every year, from October to January in the lunar calendar, the tree begins to shed its leaves and flowers. The tree is widespread, has a dense canopy, planted around the house for shade.
Durian trees grow naturally or are planted throughout the Mekong Delta province
In the past, this vegetable appeared regularly in bad diets, considered the people’s “hunger busting” vegetable here.
The leaves and flowers are often eaten raw or mixed in salads with boiled fish, boiled meat, and fish sauce in the daily diet. The most famous dish is the durian salad mixed with shrimp, meat, dried cork fish, colorful fish, or mixed with dried catfish, pineapple fish … Durian salad is often bitter when eaten, but will develop later. bitter taste, sweet aftertaste, coolness, the aroma remains in the mouth.
Ms. Kim Cuc (Tan Chau, An Giang) just reached out to mix the salad and said: “For the salad, choose the young flowers that are in bloom, remove the leaves and cotton to mix with dry roast, tear into small pieces to chill. Mix. more cucumbers and thinly sliced tomatoes to… make a charm. The secret of this salad is to mix it with tamarind water, add a little sugar, fish sauce and chili so it has all the salty, sweet, sour, spicy, bitter and fresh flavors. The sauce should be concentrated fish sauce sour, spicy, sour but only eaten to enhance the taste.
Dried pumpkin salad is a famous specialty in this country
Guests from far away come to An Giang but haven’t tasted the salad, when they come back they will surely regret it. “This is my third time enjoying durian salad at An Giang. I really like the bitter taste but there is a melancholic sweet aftertaste, there is no unique salad like that,” said Minh Vy (District 3, Ho Chi Minh City).
Currently, durian is one of the mainstay menus for families, restaurants, and restaurants ranging from rural to urban areas. It’s not hard to find dishes from durian leaves in rustic to fancy restaurants. In the market, durian leaves are also widely sold. According to the survey, fresh durian leaves cost 50,000 – 60,000 VND/kg.
Seeing a trader who often sells durian leaves in the online market, Ms. Hoa (37 years old) said: “I often ask my family to pick melon leaves in An Giang and then send my car upstairs, sold on the same day according to the amount correct. previously accepted applications. On average in a day can sell 7-10 kg of durian leaves in the apartment market, online market. Most customers, eating clean and natural vegetables and good for health has become a habit.”
Durian is widely sold in the market.
The durian tree is no longer a medicine in traditional medicine, it is often used to treat fever, colds, anti-inflammatory, treat skin diseases, aches and pains… Especially in the field of Western medicine, the efficacy of durian leaves has been proven. Effective, it has been used by Indians since ancient times to make blood sugar-lowering, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, antibacterial, antifungal, and treat malaria drugs. Apart from that, it also has an anti-oxidant effect on cells and fights agents that cause genetic mutations or cancer…
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