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fronk
Posted on: Juiced!
June 10, 2009 at 1:15 PM@shenyajin
The Thai restaurant may have something similar to bai torayn". They may call it something like "khao torayn", as the Thai word for rice is "khao".
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June 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM@sydcarten,
interesting that the belief would be that it makes the body hot as the traditional medicine belief (at least in Southeast Asia) is that Durian is supposed to help suppress fever. It's an anti-pyretic, which is a substance which reduces fever but doesn not effect thermoregulation when there is no fever. This effect may be produced by the high concentration of amino acids in the fruit.
Here is an exerpt from wikipedia on the medicinal effects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian#Nutritional_and_medicinal
"In Malaysia, a decoction of the leaves and roots used to be prescribed as an antipyretic. The leaf juice is applied on the head of a fever patient.[29] The most complete description of the medicinal use of the durian as remedies for fevers is a Malay prescription, collected by Burkill and Haniff in 1930. It instructs the reader to boil the roots of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis with the roots of Durio zibethinus, Nephelium longan, Nephelium mutabile and Artocarpus integrifolia, and drink the decoction or use it as a poultice.[46]
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June 9, 2009 at 6:03 AMshenyalin
It's durian season down here in Cambodia. I agree the fruit is heavenly. Here they have a dish called "bai torayn" which is durian in syrup laid over sticky rice covered in coconut milk - a dish that would make your cardiologist cringe.
The asians have a saying that durian "tastes like heaven but smells like hell".
chand,
great recipe. Here in Cambodia we have peanut tukalok
Posted on: Student or Teacher?
June 15, 2009 at 3:54 AM@shenyajin
Whatever age you are, you are surely nice to look at ;-)
And with some personality to back it up.