Once I heard older farming people in Hong
Kong mentioned this old variety of corn that they used to grow, saying that it
has a good taste and texture much better than modern varieties. The name with the
word glutinous fascinates me.
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| Black & white glutinous corn - before cooking |
When I visited Taipei in Spring, I found a
seed company and indeed found these corn available, black glutinous corn and white glutinous corn.
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| Black & white glutinous corn |
I sow them together in my garden, beautiful
tall plants, and after 2.5 months, ears started to form. It is not the modern
sweet corn that I used to grow and eat, which are super sweet and juicy.
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| Black & white glutinous corn |
When they are harvested in time, before becoming
hard and starchy, they are pleasantly mild sweet. It is the texture that is unusual,
chewy and how to describe it ... glutinous!
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| Black & white glutinous corn- after steaming |
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