Sago pearls are almost identical to tapioca but they come from a different plant. The pearls are cooked and eaten with coconut milk or made into a sticky springy pudding.
Tapioca pearls
Supermarkets, Asian stores
Burmese faluda, Sago pearls in coconut milk
As the name suggests the rice becomes sticky when cooked. It is made into a variety of dishes both savoury and sweet…
Green mangos are used in salads, pickles and curries. It is different to ripe eating mango – the flesh is a pale green…
It is called chin baung ywet in Burmese, the roselle leaves have a lovely sour taste. Cooked with chillies and shrimp paste…
Similar to spring roll wrappers, popiah wrappers are thin paper-like crepe usually made from rice flour and circular in shape…
