1.   Children were floating small boats made of banana leaves.

2.   My father sliced open a square of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves.

3.   Banh chung, sticky rice cakes with pork and mung beans wrapped in lotus or banana leaves, are essential to Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year.

4.   A pork-and-rice casserole flavored with onions and spices, nacatamal is always served wrapped in a banana leaf.

5.   But since then, they have uncovered bodies at three more sites, many of them with cords or banana leaves tied around their necks.

6.   Cold, wet and covered with big banana leaves for warmth, the two men spent another day wandering.

7.   Cover with a gaily colored tablecloth, or banana leaves, which can be found in the produce sections of Hispanic markets.

8.   Cut the banana leaf in half lengthwise.

9.   Crab-eating Macaques scamper along oak tree branches and trample the giant banana leaves.

10.   Everywhere, rice cakes are abundant, and many are wrapped in banana leaves in triangles or oblong shapes.