My beautiful blue pea flower

I really love the look of this blue pea flower famously known as bunga telang.

Nyonyas will extract the coloring and make their special kuih made of glutinous rice.  I used to eat the kuih and have them smothered with a generous dollop of kaya.  Oh boy! that would be the highlight of my day .    Hmmm....at point of writing this, I am rather hungry for just a bite of the delicious snack.

Being a creeper, I had bundled few long branches (which I had sawn off from a 'chin chai' tree - Cantonese named by me as I had earlier planted to provide shade but does not know the specific name) together and tied them to the flower pot.  Really happy with the results..

I dried the flowers and kept them in  the fridge for future use in my enzyme making.  The flower extract is so deep blue in color......must be highly anti-oxidant......I have drank my blue  pea flower enzyme and lived to write this article!