G is for Ginger - My Entry for A - Z Photography Contest Week 7

I admit I am addicted to ginger. Luckily I am in SE Asianwhere it is cheap and plentiful. I love the spicy hot taste any way I can get it.

This box has ginger roots with the dirt still on them in my local Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Market. You cannot get less processed food than this.

Here is a little piece of ginger I got there showing the dirt because I was so excited! It's the little things in life that matter most :)

And this is a bit of the haul I got at the same market another day. Barley, salted beans, tiny purple onions, and the ginger - about $2 usd.

To the right in the first bin is cut ginger. It is ready with all the other ingredients to be juiced to order in Bangkok. Stalls like this are open from dawn to about 10 am and I sure miss this 60 cent energy boost.

Just point to what you want and juice appears!

Here I am cutting some ginger to make tea

Finer still. This is hard on my arthritic hands, but I do it anyway.

Boiled water is poured on now

And a lid to keep the heat longer. I was making do in a Bangkok hotel room. You really should simmer this for 15-30 minutes for best result.

Waiting...

Did my ginger change color! No.

This dish includes turmeric root too. For some reason I do not find a photo of the tea with ginger only. I drain off the water and drink it. Then I eat the roots in salad or soup. They go down easier when they are softened up life this.

This photo shows a cooked food haul from street vendors in Bangkok. In the left, sliced ginger is part of my fermented pork ball meal. In the middle is some cooked purple rice and to the right are two sticks of BBQ chicken livers. I was on a roll that night and must have shopped hungry.

I got this tea in a Bangkok 711. It's the pure powder in five tea bags for about $3. Pricey!

Here is another market haul. This time from Bangkok for about $1.50. Cabbage, limes, radish, ginger and cauliflower.

And another market haul from Bangkok. The bag holds shredded ginger. I thought this would be good idea for tea. but it was much more expensive than that gigantic root I got.

The big pack of turmeric roots above was 30 cents!

Pickled ginger was found in the K & T in Bangkok for $1.20 USD. You often find this as a garnish with your sushi. I can eat it like candy.

Yum!

So why do I eat all this ginger? For the health benefits and flavor. In the poster of benefits below from an unknown source on google images, you see a photo of candied ginger which is also very good.

And organicfacts.com talks about the health benefits of honey and ginger together. When you hear to drink ginger ale for nausea, now you know why.

This is my entry for the weekly a-z-photography-contest by @sustainablyyours. I am entering this photo below as it is the one I like the best out of all my choices above.

I like the blurred background and the good focus on the ginger. I seriously need to up my photography game!

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