I'm from the Philippines and that GREEN WRINKLY THING is called ampalaya or "Bitter Gourd" in English.
The SPHERICAL TANNED EGG is actually a Chinese thing called "Century Egg", it's sort of like a pickled or salted egg. The egg is a chicken egg.
hehehe... hope to have put your curiosity to rest.
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Originally Posted by Robbie Hatley[_2_]
Howdy, group(s). I was in a philipine restaurant today
(Kainan Sa Kanto, Stanton, CA, USA, to be precise)
and I ate some weird (but delicious) food, including:
- A dish that appeared to be a mix of some kind of sliced
vegetables mixed with scrambled eggs.
- A dish that appeared to be roast chunks of beef in a
savory sauce, with weird tan spheres with rubbery
texture and meaty flavor.
I was very curious as to what the weird vegetable and the
weird tan spheres were, so I took a sample of both home,
and did some digital photography.
Here's a photo of the weird vegetable:
http://www.well.com/user/lonewolf/Weird-Vegetable.jpg
I sliced the tan sphere in two and photographed both the
inside and outside. On close inspection, it appears to be
some sort of egg, though of what type, I have no clue:
Weird egg, exterior:
http://www.well.com/user/lonewolf/We...g-Exterior.jpg
Weird egg, interior:
http://www.well.com/user/lonewolf/We...g-Interior.jpg
Anyone here recognize that vegetable or that egg? If so,
what are they?
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Curious,
Robbie Hatley
lonewolf at well dot com
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