In the area I am staying at (around Tainan city), you see many signs like this. For a while I had no idea what this was. I soon discovered this is a picture of a waterchestnut, which are famous in our area. This waterchestnut "patch" was close to our school, so Lung-Chieh took us to pick some up and see the plants first-hand.
The plants grow close together in a bog, and you lift the whole plant up to pick the waterchestnut from underneath. They are all picked individually. The young red ones are crunchy and you eat them right away. The older ones are boiled first, so they are "meatier" and taste a lot like roasted chestnuts. They are delicious.
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| cracking open the waterchestnuts |
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| each waterchestnut is harvested individually |
I told everyone that waterchestnuts are sold in a can in America. They looked at me like I was crazy. I'll never touch a canned-type again, there's no comparison in taste.
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| Lung-Chieh and Osamu |
Something funny, the woman at the stand said 2 American guys were by the stand earlier that morning. She said they wanted to pick some themselves, and they proceeded to strip down to their underwear and got right in the marsh. Americans!
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