
Thai: GloowayKluai Kluey
Scientific: Musa sapientum L
Season: All year for varieties Glooway-hawm and Glooway-nahm-wah, but Glooway-kai is ava
When young and green,they are bananas are eaten raw as a vegetable with a spicy sauce or they are sliced, dried in the sun, and fried for a snack. Ripened bananas can also be grilled and soaked with syrup (kluai ping), smoked in the peel (kluai phao), boiled in coconut milk with salt and sugar (kluai buat chi) , boiled in syrup (kluai chuam) ,deep-fried in a light coating of batter to make fritters (kluai khaek), as well as being eaten fresh.,