Sentences with phrase «betel nuts»

All are relatives of Piper betle, the familiar betel nut of India, and Piper methysticum, the ingredient of kava, the «national beverage» of Polynesia.

There, Le enlisted his sister as his sous chef and dug deep to reenvision the dishes his Vietnam - born mom made for the family: jasmine rice croquettes with willowy slivers of pickled lotus, betel nut leaf - wrapped pork loin scattered with pork rinds and dragon fruit.

To get to each restaurant, both good and bad, we have to hike up dingy staircases where walls and floor seem to be the repository for the nasty habit of spitting out your bright red betel nut wherever you wish.

Does betel nut have any nutritional benefits - like reducing hypertension, helping digestions cutting cholestrol?

Disgraced, she returned home without communicating with her would - be fiancé and became a «betel nut beauty.»

It is sandwiched between a high school group photo in which she smiles tensely at the camera, her hair hacked short around her ears in a style that was popular that year, and a box of brittle letters, the sheets tinged with blue and smelling faintly of sweet betel nut, from her grandmother, who is now dead.

She was found scantily clad and shot on the side of a highway where she was selling betel nuts to passing truck drivers.

These seeds, when combined with betel nut and lime, are chewed mostly by older people all over Indonesia; the teeth become rust - colored after...

Specifically, this pepper leaf is Piper betle, so named because it is used to wrap the betel nut, the mildly euphoric, habit - forming substance that is chewed all over the subcontinent.

Similarly, intake of betel nuts or star fruit can potentially shut down the kidneys, and the safety of chamomile tea for those with kidney disease has not yet been established.