When a cluster of bananas appears on a tree, you wait a while and lop off the flower (which grows upside-down from the bottom of the cluster’s stalk). This is from the biggest tree in our backyard, of which there are always 5 to 10 in various stages of growth (I cut them down after we harvest the bananas, and new ones sprout up next to the stumps).
A banana flower is a beautiful thing. It looks like something out of a Giger sketch.
Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
ask P’ Nahm to cook Banana Flower Curry (Kaeng Hua Plee). It’s interesting!Believe me.