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Spices
Lesser Galangal
Alpinia officinarum
Galangal (Alpinia officinarum) is a rhizomatous herb of the ginger family, 0.7-1.2m tall, its stalkless lanceolate leaves rising from a creeping rhizome 12-18mm thick, reddish-brown, scaly and divided into uneven joints. That rhizome is the part harvested. It grows wild and is cultivated all over Vietnam as a kitchen spice, and in southern China. Digging goes on year-round, cultivated stock mostly in the seventh to tenth months, otherwise in autumn and winter or in spring before the drizzle; the rhizome is then washed, trimmed of leaves and rootlets, cut into 4-6cm lengths and dried. It carries 0.5-1% of a yellow-green oil that smells of camphor, plus galangol, a pungent oil.
- Origin:
- Vietnam
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