A must for some chinese families during the lunar new year. This year, there is a huge abundance of this ornamental fruit in Chinatown and even some bigger supermarkets like Giant in Tuft City. If you are looking for an environmentally friendly, bio-degradable water bottle, this fruit, when dried, may be helpful. You just cut off top of the neck and improvise with a stopper to keep the water from flowing out. Some sources say this fruit may be eaten like squash, but I think I'd rather be safe and stop at admiring the sexy hour glass figure of the Hu Lu!
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Hmm, we don't see much of these in Malaysia though...
But it is very commonly used in Feng Shui, these bottle gourds are strategically placed at certain parts of your house to enhance the chi or what not!
Good job! Once again... maybe we can find more "suprises" in chinatown to showcase more of the exotic stuffs we had in singapore.
The HuLUs in chinatown are drying out very soon. If you want some, betta get them fast.
These gourds can be grown here. But I dunno where to get the seeds? Buy the HuLu?
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