..for the best tasting sampaloc (or is it sampalok?)!

The quest began 2 years ago when my husband and I settled in a foreign country we now call home. Back in the Philippines, it was easy to find the right variety — at the sari-sari store, the supermarket, even the cigarette vendor who sells them while you’re on board the bus to work. Nowadays, whenever we take a trip down the Asian grocery, we almost always check out the aisles for new varieties of the infamous tamarind candy. My sister likes it sour. My husband likes it salty. I like it sweet.
Funny how something I never bothered to …read more