The Mekong Delta - Part II - and an evening surprise!
After Unicorn island it was time to head to Tortoise island! Also called Coconut island! It's not hard to see why it's also called Coconut island -it specialises in using coconut in everything from candy to furniture to buildings! First off we got to see how local coconut candy is made! We saw different steps of the process, like how war spears during peace time are used to seperate the coconut from the outer fibers of the nut. The fibers are used in articles like clothing, and as a growing medium. Once opened the flesh of the coconut is pressed to get a liquid, coconut milk, using this machine: The coconut milk is heated and continuously stirred to cook it down to a thicker consistensy. Since there are now machines to help with the entire process it's a lot less heavy to do than when every step was done by manual labour. Here we see the desired consistensy of the candy before it is cut into the desired shape: The dough we see in the v
