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Spices
Sand Ginger
Kaempferia galanga
Sand ginger (Kaempferia galanga) is a small perennial of the ginger family. It grows wild and is cultivated throughout Vietnam, and is found too in Cambodia, southern China, Malaysia and India. Two or three broad oval leaves lie flat on the soil — hence the name địa liền — above a cluster of small egg-shaped rhizomes, and white flowers marked with purple open stalkless between them in August. The rhizomes are lifted from December to March, from plants at least two years old, then washed, sliced thin and dried, never over charcoal, which blackens them and dulls the scent. The dried slices stay aromatic, their oil carrying borneol, cineole and cinnamic aldehyde.
- Origin:
- Vietnam
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