Okra - Where To Get

Okra is next to kale in your produce section.
 
We have looked for okra for 10 years -- brought a few pods from the U.S. to show verdulerias and friends, used the name 'quimbombó,' but no one seemed to have ever seen or heard of it. Will try these leads -- thanks!
 
add another name to the list: Bamias .
Found some references to okra in recipes in lanacion and they mentioned chaucha bamia or bamia.... :huh:

@#%$#.... they have a million different names for the same damd thing. Have the same problem when I'm looking for certain tools too. The translations online are a joke. Next time I'm going out with a picture in hand. :p
 
is okra avbl in any other latin american country ..like easily?
 
gpop said:
Just spent a few hours looking around Palermo in the Armenian shops, and seriously... my head does not store all the possible names of things when I go shopping for them on a whim:

Okra, Quimbombó, Quingombó, Chaucha Turca, Ají turco, Gumbo, Gombo, Algalia, Angelonia, Ocra, Yerba de culebra , Hibiscus esculentus = Abelmoschus esculentus.

I found okra on mercadoLibre in the form of seeds to grow it at home (which i will get anyways), but in the meantime, the plan is to make gumbo next weekend.

Has anyone come across okra in the last week?
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Never came across it, there have been people noting it is seasonally available at some markets in Barrio Chino, never heard of it being available elsewhere.
 
Surprise, surprise!! Today I found four packs of okra seeds that I bought from Miami in March.
I am planning to plant them in September and see what happens!
 
gpop said:
add another name to the list: Bamias .
Found some references to okra in recipes in lanacion and they mentioned chaucha bamia or bamia.... :huh:

@#%$#.... they have a million different names for the same damd thing. Have the same problem when I'm looking for certain tools too. The translations online are a joke. Next time I'm going out with a picture in hand. :p
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Bamia is the Arabic name, but when it came up in an Arabic class years ago, the professor had no clue what it was. He thought it was like a jalepeño!
 
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