Thai name: Makham wan
Season: December to March
The fruit is, as the name suggests, a sweet variety of a fruit generally associated with an acid taste. After being peeled it is generally eaten fresh, though boiled in water it also makes a refreshing juice. Other, more sour varieties of tamarind are used in various cooked dishes for flavoring.
When The Burmese attacet Phuket in 1785. Than Phu Ying Chan, the wife of the recently deceased governor, and her sister Mook then assembled what forces they could.