I really miss some of the island food, especially what you really can't get stateside.
Mangoes - OK we have them here, but they're usually a buck or two each. Not falling from the trees like when we were kids. And, just try to get a green one that you can dip in soy sauce.
Breadfruit - I've never met anyone who even know what this was.
Red Rice - I did find some achoate seeds here and I'll try to whip some up one day.
Pickled Papaya - There was always someone selling this in school. And, at least once a semester, some poor kid who had an allergic reaction and was at the nurse's office. I did get my wife to try and she likes it, but there's no luck in finding a truly green papaya to pickle. "Slightly pink" just doesn't cut it.
And, the grand daddy of them all, the chamorro wedding party. I'd fly out there just to stand in line with my paper plate!
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16 comments:
O.K. Brother, when ever you are ready to fly out to Guam for a smashing fiesta, let me know! Then you and I can crash a party of local good foods that we all miss!
I miss the red rice a lot. If you can duplicate the recipe successfully, pass it on to me.
And Sean, Gamma made a mean bread with a beef topping with mustard I recall. Do you have that recipe?
Ric
Hey Sean, my wife Teresa is the only person I have meet out side of Guam who has heard of Bread Fruit.
How many weddings did we crash to get a good paper plate full of red rice?
I have to agree Sean, that the food is one of the things I really miss too. Stateside, my dad could make good bar-b-que Guamanian chicken and also chicken kelaguen. My sister Pat also makes good lumpia but I know it's lots of work.
What about those dried salty plums you could get at the little store? I crave those maybe once a year and have found them in a local asian store.
I work in a very culturally diverse departmart and when we have a potluck I'm always happy when the Philipino girls bring pancit and lumpia, and one of my Cuban coworkers makes great flan.
Cindy - Those dried plums are Salty Seeds. Just the mention of them and I have some sort of Pavlov dog reaction - my mouth starts to water.
I have found them a couple times since leaving Guam. The first time was in Manila (I was there on business in early 90's) and the second time in Shanghai (also on business earlier this year).
Ric - that was "open faced steak sandwiches" - basically hamburger on toast. I'll see if I can dig up the recipe.
All I have to say is that I enjoy every Chamorro gathering. Tamales,deer keleguen, chicken keleguen,shrimp keleguen,golia upon,dried deer,pork or beef.Potato salad,pickled cucombers,and everything pickled like mangoes and red rice and a killer finadene filled with onions,and small tomatoes and done'. Now I need to go to the next fiesta!!! And that's not even the dessert part.Hmm,Hmm Good.
I remember a few birthday barbeques parties at yapo beach.
Stop it, Stop it!!!
I live in the Meat and Potatoes belt. No one likes anything Spicy.
Oh what I would give for some red rice, chickn and Lumpia.
I can still find green mangos at "save alot". I enjoy them with salt mixed with hot sauce. Also our older kids, cindys and mine always request my lumpias...ugh, so much work, but fun to do. I'll have to do them this xmas forsure.
Sean,
Yes, and don't forget Beatle Nut. Yea, and without the lime leaf. That is Chew.
Pat,What about (I don't know what they are called) that salted plumb we would get at the village store?
I do miss the fiastas, and I never got thrown out of one if they didn't know me.
Red rice is one of my favorite foods.
I get funny looks all the time( thats just me), but yes Bread Fruit. Try and even explane it to any off islander.
Dan I agree with you, STOP THE MADDNES (oh, wrong one), you are torchering us northerners. I live on Elk and Potatos(we do grow them in Idaho).
Thanks again for more memories!
The dried salty plums and the not-so-salty plums are called "LI HING MUI". I still eat the freakin' stuff, still buy 'em by the pound ... yeah, they are good...from Crack Seed Center in Honolulu at the Ala Moana Shopping Center.
Da best one is the TOURIST PLUM
Here's the link: http://www.crackseedcenter.com/
Oh yeah, and the breadfruit is called "LEHMAI". It is enjoyed also in Tahiti where it is called "URU".
How about we just all have a reunion at Jeff Jones' place on the North Shore of Oahu...I'll bring the Doni (red boonie peppers, Red Rice (rice cooked with Achote' coloring), and maybe some Lehmai (breadfruit).
What about "ebas" - those little berry-things, we used to put 'em in soy sauce. Well, did that with pretty much everything I suppose.
Also, someone got me hooked on dipping orange slices in salt and tabasco. Not sure who that was, but my wife thinks I am crazy.
Well we can't forget Empinadas just cooked and still hot for sale infront of the school at BJHS(Now called Untalan middle school. Chorizo! I can get the Spanish sausages in Germany, everytime I go there I buy I few but they are getting harder to eat because they have a lot of fat in them.
Isn't this Dean's Circle blog just the best?!!! I am in constant awe that everyone remembers those details in our lives which is about Guam?!
Sean? Ebas? Yeszzz. Those were the little yellow berries, tasting tart at times, and sometimes we could find bigger ones that aren't so tart.
These memories are always relived, albeit on the island of Tahiti. I still find Ebas trees everywhere in Tahiti, as well as mangoes, boonie peppers "doni" guavas, avocados, breadfruit "lehmai", ... life there in French Polynesia took me 40 years back into early Guam.
There are a couple of things that I totally introduced to the Tahitians: RED RICE and Hot sauce with Doni for the Green Mangoes. They thought I was gonna get sick, but they ended up really loving the stuff. A gift from this Guamanian to the Tahitians eh?!
I'm headed back to Tahiti on November 21st ... lots of surfin' to do out there...and ebas,mangoes, etc.
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