Banana Flower - Farm Fresh

 Banana Flower in India:

If you’re on an Iron Chef-bent mission to learn how to cook with this unusual ingredient, you can find the banana flower in India. That said, you won’t find it in most produce stands, stalls, or carts. You’ll have to go to a locally-known grocery store with the widest variety of produce—it’ll probably have it. Expat grocery stores, on the other hand, will likely not. Because the French, Brit, and American wouldn’t know what to do with a banana flower if it was dropped into their steamer.

You know who would also know how to get the banana flower for you? Middle/lower-middle class staff: cooks, cleaners, drivers… they’d be the ones most familiar with banana flower and where to find it. Ask them, ideally with a picture in hand if you can’t speak the language because their English skills may or may not be so great.