Great food from the Philippines: Guso (seaweed)
by Dave from The Longest Way Home ~ May 17th, 2009. Published in: Great food from around the world.Guso seaweed from the Philippines
Guso (seaweed) from the Philippines (click to enlarge)
Guso is a seaweed that’s been soaked in vinegar and mixed with ginger, red bell pepper and tomato with some onion, its served cold. It tastes mainly of the dressing but the crunchy texture is really nice, similar to cucumber.
Guso is found in most night food markets, not really something you’ll see at corner stalls though. It’s served mainly as a side dish and costs about 7-15 pesos for a small plate.
Below is a slideshow of Guso photographs and images
This is an additional post and one of a series highlighting Great food from the Philippines
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oh! it’s just called “kiam-chai”. salty pickled veges.. me thinks;) but this is Hokkien. I don’t know what else it is called otherwise.
-ciki- Thanks for the Malaysian equivalent update, I was curious!
GUSO is a green seaweeds which is also called ‘GREEN ROSE’ in Japan.
I currently work in a company exporting this kind of food:)
Excellent, thanks for the info on “Green Rose”. I hope to visit Japan in the not too distant future.