Coconuts are also important to the Vietnamese. Coconuts grow on coconut palms and are used to make jewlery, cooking utensils and food. The meat of the nut is used in cooking. The milk is often cooked down to produce an oil that is used in cooking or to create candy. Green coconuts are cracked open and the milk drank with a straw right from the nut!
Coconut candy is made by mixing the milk from the nut with sugar and cooking it down into a thick taffy-like mixture. It is then placed into molds, cooled and then cut into bite-sized pieces that are wrapped for shipping.
The shell of the coconut is also used for fuel.
3 comments:
This coconut candy looks really good. it's cool how they use almost every part of the coconut for something!
Coconut candy is so good, I might just have to travel over to Vietnam to see how it's made.
Abby and "The Animal",
The smell of the candy when they are making it is wonderful! I wish I could send you the smell! But since I can't, I'm sending you some candy. Mrs. K will have a box for you soon. Enjoy.
And yes, Abby, they are VERY resourceful. They use everything and throw very little away. Look at some of the market pictures (enlarge them if you have to) and look at what they eat! They eat almost ALL of the animal parts. YUCK!
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