Comments on: I Guess It’s Fall http://global-gal.com/2008/11/04/i-guess-its-fall/ China - From the Outside Looking In Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: globalgal http://global-gal.com/2008/11/04/i-guess-its-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1280 globalgal Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:27:07 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=562#comment-1280 Thanks, Peter. The gua part is strange to me, too, because the sweet potatoes that we get are really normal sized, not large at all! They are delicious, though. The Di Gua man in our neighborhood knows that we like them VERY cooked, so that they are soft and squishy and caramelized. So good! Thanks, Peter. The gua part is strange to me, too, because the sweet potatoes that we get are really normal sized, not large at all! They are delicious, though. The Di Gua man in our neighborhood knows that we like them VERY cooked, so that they are soft and squishy and caramelized. So good!

]]> By: Peter http://global-gal.com/2008/11/04/i-guess-its-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1253 Peter Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:09:59 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=562#comment-1253 Di(ground) Gua(melon) it is. I don't know why the mainlanders treat it as a melon. I guess some sweet potatoes like those in S.E. Asia can be as large as a cantaloupes hence the reference to melon. Chinese outside China call them Fan Shu. When we were kids in Malaysia, we used to roast sweet potatoes in slow burning charcoal. Yum! Di(ground) Gua(melon) it is. I don’t know why the mainlanders treat it as a melon. I guess some sweet potatoes like those in S.E. Asia can be as large as a cantaloupes hence the reference to melon. Chinese outside China call them Fan Shu.

When we were kids in Malaysia, we used to roast sweet potatoes in slow burning charcoal. Yum!

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