Coron Harvest

The one and only authentic product that you can buy at Coron Town is cashew nut. This is the only one of the few harvests this province can produce cos of the limitation of planting soil. The province is laden with red soil which  mineral-ly contained manganese . There are also other  fruit bearing trees that can be  planted as potential commercial harvest for the place, but the locals choose to focus and work on the obvious gifts of nature to them which are fishing and tourism . This town is undoubtedly gifted with  marine wealth and is not yet at all interested to dig soil. 



When you ask Coron where to buy cashew nuts, there's only one name which echoes from blogosphere back to the origin town - Lita Escarda. Tourist could hardly miss the place cos it 's on the way to Maquinit Hot Spring which is one of the destinations included in Coron tour.

I'm sure there are many others in the town who produce the same caliber of L. Escarda's cashew nuts, but for some reason, yet to be heard in the future.



Aling Lita was obviously relax and very comfortable posing with her customers.

garlic cashew nuts

Why not?, she has been doing it everyday for the longest time. Her wall was loaded with celebrities' photo ops.

two different sugar coated cashew nuts

She had been interviewed by popular t.v. shows from major broadcasting such as channel 2 and 7 and lately was featured in Living Asia Channel. And ofcourse continually being blogged in the internet, obviously. Apart from Aling Lita's endearing public relations, which could be one of her secrets of popularity. . .



toasted cashew nuts
. . . her cashew nuts really walk the talk ! They are fresh and crunchy and good quality.

Low Fat Pulutan

Father-in-law had celebrated his 66th birthday last week. He had an intimate drinking session with his friends at home.

Daughter-in-law (that's meh!) prepared something healthy that they could munch around with the low fat pulutan -grilled fishes mother -in-law prepared for these gathering of senior citizen gentlemen already with health conditions.


I prepared vegie salad plates with low fat dressing.
Happy 66th birthday daddy Ed!!!

Balunsagin

Do you know what these are? Nah, they are not Christmas ornaments,but can be used as such why not? With their deep red color which speaks of a happy season., they would surely make a tree more christmasy.





They are called balunsagin , Edible fruits. some are sweet, some are sour.The seeds are not meant to eat thu' as usual . You just prick out the translucent flesh with seed in the middle, throw into your mouth, make sure you don't swallow the seed . It's like eating a fresh lychee.

We met a local gentleman in Coron, Palawan and introduced the fruit to us. He said the fruit was his childhood snack while playing in the wilds with his playmates. They would happily climbed balunsagin trees and got as plenty as they wanted. The trees look as the above photo and found in the midst of mountain forest.

Definitely a wild fruit.