Let me confess I did not know what this was until I saw this picture. Do you know what it is? What is it used for? Where it comes from? Do tell us more about this is you do know? Or, make a guess?
Answer on next page below
Most of our readers had guessed the answer right. Infact I got to learn much more about this fruit from the comments than my own source of information. Here is the answer that I researched. This fruit is called ‘Dodi’ in Sindhi. It is a seasonal fruit grown in shallow waters. I don’t know the Urdu name. But through your informative comments we all did get to learn many other names of this fruit.
The photo above shows a person selling ‘Dodi’ in Larkana on June 20, 2009.
MASHROOMS
these are lotus pods, as already pointed out by many here, its called kaNwal-gatte here in India. taste good both raw and cooked.
They are Lotus seeds. My mom says they are very tasty!
I have seen these being dried as decorations but did not know you could eat them. What do they taste like?
Some comments on this from the ATP Facebook Page:
– “we used to have it as kids..they were so yumm!”
– “kanwal-battay?? or something like that?!!”
– “I think koi khilona hai bachon ke khailney ka??”
– “yes this is pabann it found in dadu,larkana inside the water and we use it 4 eat.”
– “it is some sort of plant.”
– “No idea… never saw in karachi”
– “ye to koi home made dugdugi lag re haiiii”
– “Lotus pods!? Our relatives used to bring them from Interior Sindh. Had them quite a lot.”
– “arrey yar ye b ek fruit ya vagetable keh skte ho in ko, sindh main mlte hain, muje is ka urdu name nahein pata, in ko khane main mehnat lagti hai buhat. seeds ki trhn hain ander se, taste acha hai in ka”
– “Lotus pods, hain es main badam jesei giri hoti hey”
– “this is not new 4 m i used it many times 4 eat
we called it in sindhi pabann.”
– “”home made dugdugi” se mera dill agreed hai lolz main ny bhi kuch aisa hi andaza kiya tha:D or Joneju sahab se agree hai, He is right I think:D”
– “Kaal Doday….make beautiful dry arrangement!”
– “yar pabann hyderabad man naseem nagar chock per aur qasimabad man bohat milta ha even HYD city man bhe per asal man ya chezen Dadu aur Larkana sa ateen han aur pane ka ander hoten han.”
– “ap ne sahy kaha again junejo sahab, aur ek jaga b hai AGRICULTURAL cmplx k samne b milte hain.”
– “hmmm g8”
– “mojha is liya bhe pata ha ka man bassicaly dadu sa belong karta hon.”
– “It is Lotus fruit. On it we can find lotus flower which is called kanwal in Sindhi and urdu. Its root is also very tasty vegetable called beeh in sindhi. It is long in shape and with holes inside.”
– “As i havn’t seen such kind ov thing in my life …. mujhey tou dekhney mei yeh “kumkumey type chez lug rai hey jis mein switch k sath on krney sey lights jlein gi… lol
bt i thnk Patoli n Junego shbz r rite….”