Thai restaurants in the U.S. uses lemongrass in many dishes. Lemongrass has a special flavor that makes the dish specially delicious. Actually, both Meeilei and I had learned Thai's cuisine that used lemongrass as an ingredient. In Taiwan, I really miss that special dish with the lemongrass.
Miao-Li county produces 80% of total lemongrass production in Taiwan. It was brought by a Japanese agricultural chemist 岩元 in 1911. The Hakka in Miao-Li even set up distillers to get the extract of the lemongrass.
The biology name of Lemongarss 香茅草 is Cymbopogon nardus . It is a tall perennial grass.
Photo shows a distiller unit of lemongrass extract in the Miao-Li county.
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