So while in Kerala recently during the Onam festival, it was a visual delight to see the abundance of bananas on display everywhere I looked.
Shops were decorated for the festival.
Bananas outside. Banana chips inside.
Bananas everywhere.
Here a chip, there a chip, everywhere a chip, chip (just had to add this line owing to its lyrical quality)
Is it any wonder we Malayalees have mastered the art of making banana chips & it is such a massive industry in Kerala?
Photos below were of just one shop.
wingrish 
I love those yellow tubby fingers lol. Can’t live without them. 🙂
lol…like your description though..tubby fingers indeed 😉
You have explained this fact correctly as Malayalees know how to use banana leaves and fruits in the versatile way. Also this is applicable to coconut too right?
Spot on Clarissa about coconuts …I have alluded to coconut oil specifically in a few of my earlier posts, its sacred you see 😉
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All Nendrans right? I don’t particularly care for them plain. These are best fried in ghee 😀
Your right…in Kerala they serve this variety boiled too..which in rather nice though it doesn’t sound it. I love those fritters fried in ghee too 🙂
I love them steamcoocked. Incidentally what could be the botanical name of Nendran.
Apparently it is Musa paradisica.
Those are too many bananas!!! 😀
oh yes, tis the land of plentiful banana harvest 🙂