Comments on: Taati Munjalu (Toddy Palm Seeds)

by: Birthday à la good-and-tasty « hungry & foolish

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:55:00 +0000

[…] And lastly, this refreshing almond jelly and lychee dessert has always been a classic for summer (or spring, fall, winter…) It’s a comfort dessert for my family since we make it so much. I guess we tend to really exotic when we start to add other ingredients such as jackfruit, toddy palm and multi-coloured confetti tapioca. […]

by: mansi

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:04:55 +0000

Oh my god it is awesome fruit in the world I wish I can buy it over here USA

by: asra

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:23:12 +0000

Please let me know if it is still available in Seattle Washington. My aunt lives there and I will ask her to mail me. I am dying to eat that but fresh. I buy them in the can all the time like a greedy person whenever I go to the Chinese or Thai stores but nothing brings my childhood memories of the smell and taste that is stuck in my mind for last 40 years.

by: Swathi

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:26:50 +0000

I found these toddy palm seeds accidentally in chinese store in canned section. I stay in Utah saltlakecity. I kept these in water after removing from can to 2-3 hours and change water atleast 5 times. So you will get possibly the real taste without the sweetness when it is in can. If you try like this you will almost get the natural taste.
hope this helps. I really miss these.

Thanks for the tip, Swathi. Will do that on my next purchase.
-Indira

by: Mohammed Aslam

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:24:54 +0000

Nothing like the fresh ones. The canned stuff tends to be hard. The fresh ones are soft as jello. Being from Chennai myself, I miss this fruit. The only canned lungus/nungus I see here are imported from Thailand. I wish they canned them in India. Could be a good foriegn exchange earner for my country of birth. Does anyone know what it is called in Malay. My wife is from Malaysia and does not know what it is called. Thanks for reading.

by: srinivas telu

Wed, 12 May 2010 09:08:07 +0000

can anybody tell me where I can buy palm seed [tatti munulu] in delhi.

by: Chandan Mallik

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:21:13 +0000

Can anybody tell me where I can buy palm seeds (Talshahsh) in USA.

by: pat@mcn.net

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:52:02 +0000

I opened a can of palm seeds not knowing what to expect. I have never prepared or tasted them. The can I opened was Aroy-d palms seeds in heavy syrup. I strained the syrup away from the seeds, added a lot of dried coconut shaving, fresh lime juice, a bit of vanilla and sprinkled with cayenne. Frigging delicious. Nobody that I had for dinner has ever tasted them and everybody loved them.

I have no idea what you typically do with these seeds but the mother of invention rules.

I loved reading all of the comments and hope to someday taste these little tid-bits fresh.

by: mateen mirza

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:03:52 +0000

I ate this fruit when I visited Hyderabad,India from Pakistan and my grandma made a heavenly drink from it “mungel sharbat” made with chunks of the gel of the toddy palm. In the hot summer, it provided a cooling affect that had a heavenly taste to it. I never ate the fruit again till 20 years later having a Phillipino dessert in Canada I recognized its taste and enquired my wife about it who found that the dessert had chunks of canned toddy palm in it. Now, after another 30 years living in Bahrain my wife and I discovered the fresh Toddy palm at an Indian grocery store. I am having this most delicious fruit in fresh form after 50 years and its a treat.

by: geetha v

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:26:01 +0000

What are the nutritonal values of this fruit (munjalu, or koba in hindi). Also, can diabetics consume these and in what quantity?