Chillies, Other Spices and Herbs Pt II

Here are the other spices and herbs...

The red ginger, or "halia bara". Most of the time used as medicine. Mother in confinement usually take the ginger raw, as "ulam". The only time we use for cooking is in the "buah molong" (pengat tepung pulut) - quiet strange, but it gives the pengat a beautiful aroma...

This is not a banana tree ya... (the one in the back ground is), but a tumeric...

The common serai...