There are so many pictures I  want to show you,  or things I  want to talk about, but just can't because of lack of time, space, or other reasons. This is tamarind in the market, which is used in cooking. If you know about tamarind you know about tamarind. If you don't know about tamarind, then you probably know A1 steak  sauce, which has tamarind in it. This is the biggest pile of tamarind I've ever seen. Just before  they started packaging it as you see in  the picture, they were actually breaking it up--because it came as a big brick--with a large metal rebar like a tire iron. Didn't get my camera out in time for that.