是房东在煮夜宵, 分了我一碗, 我一看就是地瓜嘛, 可我在国内吃了无数的地瓜也没闻到过这样的香气. 喝起来就没有闻起来的那么香, 问了之后才知道香气来自”香兰叶”, 煮完汤, 叶子就扔掉了. 房东还从垃圾桶里扒拉出一片完整的叶子给我看…

Common Name:
Pandan, Screw Pine

Scientific Name:
Pandanus amaryllifolius

Description:
The leaves of the screw pine have small thorns towards the apex along the margins and midrib. A freshly cut leaf has a delightful fragrance like that of a new hay. The plant never flowers and is propagated by cuttings.
Uses:
The leaves are used as flavouring in cooking. Juice extracted can be used as an essence in cake making or the entire leaf used with coconut water and rice to make nasi-lemak.

Wiki:

Pandan (P. amaryllifolius) leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking to add a distinct aroma to rice and curry dishes such as nasi lemak, kaya (‘jam’) preserves, and desserts such as pandan cake. In Indian cooking, the leaf is added whole tobiryani, a kind of rice pilaf, made with ordinary rice (as opposed to that made with the premium-grade Basmati rice). The basis for this use is that both Basmati and Pandan leaf contain the same aromatic flavoring ingredient, 2-Acetyl-1-pyrroline. Pandan leaf can be used as a complement to chocolate in many dishes, such as ice cream. They are known as daun pandan in Indonesian and Malay; 斑蘭 (bān lán) in Mandarin and as ใบเตย (bai teuy) in Thailand. Fresh leaves are typically torn into strips, tied in a knot to facilitate removal, placed in the cooking liquid, then removed at the end of cooking. Dried leaves and bottled extract may be bought in some places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandanus

百度百科上, 很随意的说:

香兰叶是东南亚常用的香料之一，可以打成汁液添加在甜点内，也可将新鲜的香兰叶用于炖煮或用来包裹食物油炸，添加在白饭中一起煮，煮好的饭会有股特殊香味，相当诱人，新鲜的香兰叶汁还可以用来替食物染色。马来西亚的娘惹（Nyonya—华侨与当地土著生下的女性后裔）就喜欢把这种植物加入食物里，因为它有一种十分独特的天然芳香味，能让食物增添清新、香甜的味道。后来慢慢地演变到以新鲜椰汁混合香兰叶来制作各种食物与糕点。而在蛋糕、面包、饼干、慕斯等食品中加入香兰叶，吃起来更爽口、更香甜、更美味！　　

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Categories: 分享; Tagged with: 邵薇故乡; @ October 18th, 2012 21:56

下午四点钟, 十五楼会议室, 电话会议. 我拖着下巴, 呆滞的看着窗外, 脑子里什么都没有, 耳朵也关掉了.

应该是刚下过雨, 不阴不晴的就像深秋的傍晚. 会议室里的冷气开得很大, 不自觉的系上了袖口的扣子. 呱啦呱啦的英语在电话里噼里啪啦的响着, 我不想听, 瞪着窗外河里的游船发呆, 我想给自己制造另外一个季节.

外面的高楼不多, 河里的游船稀稀拉拉的过来又过去, 冷气呼呼的吹在身上, 像极了深秋放学前的阴冷教室. 我盼望时间过得快一些, 快些放学. 跑过秋风, 跑过落叶, 坐在炕头上等着白菜炖粉条. 可我知道我只是在做梦, 很快老板就会有一堆问题问我, 我也知道这里一直都是夏天, 一走出大门就是滚滚热浪.

明天再熬一天, 后天就是周末了, 想到这里我又打起了精神.

上周末, 我看完了邵薇的<<故乡>>, 我想说, 这是一本不错的书.

我以前没有听说过邵薇, 甚至连万县我也只是知道在四川有这么个地方而已.

关于童年, 写的很细腻传神, 一个小女孩, 蹦蹦跳跳的走过来, 兜里可能揣着一块糖, 也可能是五分钱, 高兴的走在人生的路上, 坚强的, 倔强的成长, 含着泪水, 远在他乡.

(有一天我下班后在地铁上看这本书, 看的太忘我, 地铁坐过三站后才发现)

为什么要离家, 为什么要离家这么远?

“一个人和一个城市到底有什么关系为什么李白/杜甫的诗歌充满乡愁”

可你所谓的远方, 可能就是我的故乡.

昨天我们换了办公室, 之前的小办公室里有三个人: 一个缅甸人, 一个印度人, 还有一个是我. 我们都是持工作签证的外国人, 在这飘着, 心态都是在这攒几年钱回各自老家, 回到别人心里的远方.

从一个小山坡, 到一个小县城, 再从小县城到大陆最深处的鸟市, 再从鸟市到上海, 又辗转来到新加坡, 我在找什么? 下一站, 又会是哪里? 我彻底凌乱了, 元芳, 你怎么看?

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