We went to the Koloa Farmer's Market today where a guy with a whistle and a long welcome in Hawaiian announced the beginning of the market aka food fight, and the huge crowd of tourists and locals waiting under trees raced to sample and buy the wares. Under the hot Kauai sun, local farmers sold an astonishing array of exotic fruits and vegetables. We sampled Acelia cherries, fresh coconut water and some funny kind of green beans. We bought starfruit, dragonfruit, mountain apples, lychees, custard apples, tropical tangerines, mangoes of 3 different types, tree tomatoes (taste like mix between guavas and passionfruit) and papayas ($1 for 4!). We also bought the freshest eggplant ever, baby bok choy, buckwheat sprouts, a giant avocado, bunches of mint and basil and these miniature red and orange chili peppers which the lady selling them assured me were relatively mild. I even got a macadamia nut for free. All in all, a true vegetarian's paradise!
For dinner, I whipped up a stir fry of the eggplant, bok choy and water chestnuts with mint and basil in oil flavored with garlic and about 10 of the miniature red peppers. The result is the hottest, most interesting Asian fusion dish I have ever tasted. While Hemanth and I cried and sweated our way through the rice and veggie combo, we exclaimed how good food picked that day itself tasted. Perfect for building an appetite for a fruit breakfast and hike on the North Shore tomorrow!
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The fruit names are mostly foreign to me but you enjoying and doing the simple things of life are so much like my neha i always knew.keep writing, your sharing simple thing are very interesting stories to me.and your style of explaing things is awesome.
I felt like dipping my fork into your stir fry via my computer screen
Ha ha it was truly memorable. I miss Kuai!
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