Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan 14/12 (AntaranewsKalsel) - Banjar regency, South Kalimantan, in recent days seemed to have jengkol booming (harvest). It was evident from the many people selling this type of fruits culinary.
AntaranewsKalsel monitored on Wednesday, many residents selling ready to eat jengkol (dogfruit). Along the highway in the Sub-district of Astambul, people are selling jengkol added with tahi lala (processed coconut milk residue).
Rows of people in line one kilometer selling jengkol on either side of the main road, which is busy with travellers towards or from Banjarmasin to the hulu sungai (upstream), area of six districts which called Banua Anam.
Those who sell culinary belonging of forest fruit were generally women. They used large colorful ornamental umbrellas, so that it becomes its own interesting sights.
Not surprisingly, those traveling to and from the hulu sungai, either by car or motorcycle, stopping to buy ready to eat jengkol.
A jengkol seller, Aminah (35), said that currently in the Banjar district is jengkol harvest time, which many trees are in the forest area of ​​Meratus.
"Jengkol we sell now is still a forest by-products, which grow and live freely in the forests and not from the plantation," she said.