**Photo of the Day**

[Nokia_Apridy]

wala chay dar khwand kaye khu da manz ka pape............

da 100 lumbru ka 99 kray bya hem dar kha da.....

[Nokia_Apridy]

ta khu da habib du sra nezdu ya Hasib du yadwam hem ?..

[Nokia_Apridy]

mara haga da DSP zaman

[Nokia_Apridy]

hahaha awo loparan khu di.....

[Nokia_Apridy]

da sanga ajeba ghunday da da khoob na rapsday nu seda ba gorzdalay wa..

[faye]

this type of art is incredible. i have seen a lot of phots of these. not sure if they were all done by the same guy though. extremely clever.

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

Meeng da charsaddey yu.........

[faye]

this is making the brown sugar from sugercane juice, yes? i saw that in kerala, india. some poor old man was sitting making the fire with the cane leaves (i think) under a giant wok in a tin roofed shed. i felt sorry for him in that heat.

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

yes you are right, It is called "Gaanhai" .....and those cane leaves are called "Patrai" in pashto.....

[faye]

i am glad i didn't babble on and was wrong. thanks. in india ghora, i think. bit different colour to that too, lighter.

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

Actually the machinery is called Gaanhai and that brown stuff that comes in as a result of this is called "gorha"......

[faye]

ok, so they have a machine? the one i saw was just 1 giant wok with the man making the fire, all day i assume,until the liquid evaporates. wooden paddles for stirring and on the shelves were stacked the hard balls of gohra. they gave me some. it is very tasty sugar. so is coconut sugar.

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

There is a electric machine used to crush suger cane and then its juice is gathered in that wok(called karhey in pashto) and after constant stirring and heating when the liquid evaporates they give it the final shape .........

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

Faye: here it is:

[faye]

thanks yousafzai. i didn't see one at the site where i was but i guess they had one. i like sugar cane juice too. wish we could get it here.