Word: papaya
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Asmara sells beer and wine, as well as mes, a traditional honey wine that tastes like thin fermented honey. The mes is a little intense on top of the heavy stews—opt instead for a fresh squeezed juice. Mango, strawberry, kiwi, papaya or banana juices are blended with ice and served in tall tumblers, providing the perfect cool antithesis to the salty meats...
Among the infractions alleged in the indictment, Genser said, were working as an agent of a Taiwanese group to disseminate pro-democracy messages in China and distributing a total of $400 for purposes including papaya-farming...
...selection of new and unfamiliar dishes is so vast that the eyes tend to focus on the menu’s main courses. But the list of beverages is equally intriguing. Nouvelle Lune serves a variety of fresh juices, including papaya, orange, grapefruit, strawberry and many others. I ordered a papaya juice ($1.50), a delightful blend that used a fresh papaya puree. My companion selected a Cola Lakay ($1.00) from the freezer, a carbonated drink that tastes rather like a punch-flavored Jolly Rancher...
...Time passes in a blur of intense yoga classes and skipped meals. My energy level never goes too low, and I feel acutely alert. I start to notice that I am standing taller, breathing deeper and stretching farther. On the fourth day I finally break the fast: papaya drizzled with lime and a mug of ginger tea. Not exactly paad thai and an ice-cold Singha beer, but to my expectant lips and empty stomach it's manna...
...sesame sauce. And when my dinner companion chooses the blackened mackerel, Lord refuses to give it to him. "You'll be much happier with the soft-shell crab," he says as he walks away with the menus. Grudgingly, my tablemate later concurs that the soft-shell crabs with green papaya and mango were like nothing he'd ever tasted...