By Phia Sing
Published 1981
Reference was made on the preceding page to banana ‘flowers’. The Lao name for these is nam wah, and they are not, strictly speaking, flowers, but rather the ‘heart’ of the banana, i.e. the male bud with its fibrous outer bracts removed. See the drawing below left.
Dok khing, the flowers of the ginger plant, are used in Lao cookery. See the drawing above right of a flower in bud. (Ginger itself is treated.)
Dok khae ban, the flowers of the cultivated plant AGATI GRANDIFLORA, also used, are illustrated below left. (For dok khae, a wild plant.) Below right is a drawing of the flowers of the plant CAESALPINIA MINOSOIDES, for which the Lao name is nam panya.
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