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
Green mangos are used in salads, pickles and curries. It is different to ripe eating mango – the flesh is a pale green…
Roselle buds, also known as hibiscus buds or sorrel, are a unique and flavourful ingredient used in culinary creations in SE Asia…
White poppy seeds are used in Burma although there is very little to distinguish them from the blue poppy seeds…
