Tag: lotus

  • A Fruit and a Root!

    A Fruit and a Root!

    For our Cambodian cooking class, I chose mango salad and lotus root with pork. I picked the salad because I love mangoes and I picked lotus root with pork because it was different.  Success! Everything was delicious! Try these recipes to taste for yourself! For the mango salad: Ingredients: Salad 1 green mango, peeled and…

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  • Asia’s Beautiful Flower

    Asia’s Beautiful Flower

    The lotus is an aquatic perennial that can be found throughout Asia. The seeds of the flower can last a long time – in some cases over 1000 years! We have seen this exquisite flower throughout our Asian explorations . The beautiful bloom is said to represent elegance, beauty, perfection, purity and grace and is…

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