Re: OT: Chinese (& the Pearl Drink Invasion)
| From: | Viktor Orenji <vmed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 8:16 |
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:45:05 -0500, Douglas Koller, Latin & French
<latinfrench@...> wrote:
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>>ube
>>(mashed purple yam), among other things.
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>That'd be "taro". Taro stuff is nasty no matter what medium is
>involved. Purple yam kinda says it all.
>
"Ube" (purple yam) is different from "taro" (Colocasia esculenta). I'm
not 100% sure, but I think ube is in the Dioscoreaceae family, although I
don't know the exact scientific name for it... The Japanese call
it "murasaki yamaimo" (purple mountain potato).
--Viktor