South Pacific: Part 5 of 11

5.  Delicious food.  Many of the people on Guam and Saipan are Filipino, so we had some authentic cuisine of the Filipino variety (pancit, lumpia, turon, kare kare, bagoong).  I'm not able to describe how delicious some of that stuff was.  There was a Thai restaurant with food that was nearly to-die-for.  Having fresh coconut readily available doesn't hurt.  We ate at an Indian restaurant once too.  Pumpkin curry is very tasty.  There were delicious fresh fruit and vegetables:  sour sop, star apple, papaya, avocados, bananas, coconut, and much more.

Star apple is on the left, and sour sop is on the right.  Star apple has a soft texture sort of like a slimy pear (more smooth than grainy) with a mild, sweet flavor.  Sour sop has a texture similar to over-ripe pineapple, but it tastes much better than over-ripe pineapple.  It has a fairly strong yet pleasant sweet flavor that is difficult to describe because it doesn't really remind you of another fruit.

Sour sop on the tree.

We ate at the buffet at the Hyatt one evening.  Yes, that's an octopus on my plate.  Then I also ate Uncle Bex's octopus because she didn't want hers.  You can tell this is my plate by the number of black olives on it.

Getting fresh fruits and veggies at the Tuesday market.  Along with some apigigi, coconut flat bread, and coconut water for snacks.

In general I'm not a big papaya fan, but I loved the papaya grown in Saipan.  Delicious.

Ernie uses Uncle Max's home made coconut shaver tool.  See the mound of fresh coconut at his feet?  They were making one of the meals at 'vention.

 

Uncle Bex grows a taste for pig skin (and pig's feet?).