Where I live in southeast Asia, grapes, cherries, strawberries and apples are considered exotic fruits. I literally eat at least one of the fruits shown in this video every day.
Me too. I see a lot of videos for recipes that require strawberries, lemons, peaches, cherries basically every other berry and I'm like "do you know how expensive those are? And even if i find those it's not worth it cuz most of them or at least what i usually find are sour."
Trường Ca Hành it's so funny because I've never had a passion fruit or dragon fruit buy I eat apples almost everyday and we even have a saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" 😂
I'm so glad that I live in Asia and I've been introduced to a wide variety of fruits so these fruits aren't "exotic" to me. Oh, Thomas, can you do a kitchen conundrum on Asian food?
It's cool to see our fruits gain more popularity there. Here's a short list of fruits that might seem common to westerners but are super exotic to some of us too: - raspberries - blueberries - blackberries - cranberries - most berries actually - figs?? - olives Seriously I've never even seen/tasted any of these fruits. Maybe as a flavor of candy or dessert, but never as a fresh fruit. Also someone send me pumpkin or rhubarb pie since I'm really curious how those taste. Sincerely, A southeast asian person
I had a few of these when I lived in Honduras. Drinks made from passion fruit were my favorite. Rambutan grows there as well (they were introduced from SE Asia a while ago), but there it is referred to as lychee. I only saw custard apples once, but it was probably the best fruit I have ever eaten. It was like eating vanilla pudding.
When I've asked at the market, I've just gotten a shrug, so I really appreciate the explanations of how these fruits should look and feel when ripened. Now I feel more confident to try them. Good 'WTF' segment!
In Thailand, for rose apple we have a special way to eat it. We peel, get the seeds out and freeze the white meat in the freezer. It becomes creamy icecream.
That's nice video!! Glad you made this to introduce to others who never seem these fruits! I'm from Hong Kong and have ate it all and love it! I have many friends don't even know these fruits!
Really weirds me out that something like passionfruit is considered exotic since it's available year round here in almost all supermarkets here in Australia (regular supermarkets, not the Asian speciality ones). In the summer months all of the other fruits (except those grapes) are also available in most supermarkets.
Passion fruits are excelent for pies, juice! Just make sure to...(filter? strain? brew? sorry, I don't know) before using! Funny how you some "exotic fruits" at United States are very common here, at Brazil, while blueberrys, for exemple, are the exotic fruits at our markets.
Just to clarify something about the yellow variety of the passion fruit. It's not native to Hawaii, it's native to the Amazon areas of Brazil and Venezuela and it expanded throughout Latin America and then it was introduced in Hawaii. I grew up in Peru and my grandma grew the yellow passion fruit plant in her house. I used to have passion fruit juice and sorbet all summer. We also have an orange variety called "granadilla" which is gray in the inside (just like chia seeds when they are mixed with water) It is super sweet.
Here in Mexico we call maracuyá to the passion fruit, and pitajaya to the dragon fruit, I really love both. I prepare maracaya jam, is the most delicious jam I ever taste
This episode reminds me of New Year here in the Philippines. We would collect 12 different kind of round fruits and place them at center table. You can find most of the fruits you mentioned here and Atis ( sugar apple) is my favorite. Yummm...the best!
In the southeast of Mexico we call dragonfruit "pitahaya" and we make a drink with it. Just scoop out the fruit and in a pitcher crush it with your hands so that you have little bits to bite when you drink it, add water, sugar and throw some lemon juice in there, it's heaven!
You forgot to introduce the longan (tiny round fruit with brown skin) that's beside the rambutan! For those curious, peeling the brown skin (very easy to peel away btw) will reveal a fruit with white flesh wrapped around a black seed. The edible white flesh is very sweet! I prefer longan over rambutan as it's easier to eat.
@@ShirahShah They are normally eaten as-is (raw) in Asia. The seed of the jackfruit can actually be eaten. You just need to boil it in some salt water until it's cooked. A smaller version of the jackfruit is the Chempedak which is also delicious.
There is other exotic fruits not explained in the video, you’ve probably never heard of like salak (snake fruit), belimbing (start fruit), jambu air (water apple), jambu batu (guava), tamarind, persimmon, sawo (sapodilla), nangka (jackfruit), breadfruit, and duku
Sugar apples are common all over the Mediterranean, ( Used to be my late granma favourite 😁), & as far as I learned from a lot of South Asian friends, all those fruits ( apart from the Witch Finger one) can be cooked as Fritters, or can be prepared in the same method of Gooseberry Fool dessert; which is: blending the paste of the fruit with Greek yogurt, vanilla, double cream,& sugar, and eat them as cold pot desserts.
Love to see your explanations! Even living in Brazil we find almost all of these fruits here. Our passion fruit is yellow and we have a sweet variety, which is so delicious! We have the sweet apple and a cousin called atemoia that has less seeds and more pulp.
You should do a second video on this and showcase: mangosteen, soursop, durian, longan, nangka, jackfruit, purple dragon fruit, jambu, all the different types of mango and banana, and I think there's more. Man, I'm blessed with diversity.
Finally found the fruit I tried in Taipei that my mom didn't know the english name for. Sweetsop!! Also, my family is Taiwanese and we have always pronounced it as "Lee-Chee."
I live in Colombian I'm amaze that some of fruits that grow here also grow on the other side of the world, that navi fruit, we call it anon is very tasty
Passion fruit or maracujá is so delicious so is custard apple or ata Passion fruit cake with chocolate ganache Litchi juice is really good fresh and cold or made into a slushy or shaved ice cream rambutan isn't as good as litchis They are very common in Tanzania,Kenya and throughout the east coast of Africa
We call Sugar Apple as Custard Apple and I’m very lucky to have those fruits grown in my country .. it’s exotic fruit there but for me , it’s seasonal fruits and I grew up eating those except for that Grapes ...
Actually, for the Lychee you should look for heart shaped ones. Big upper part, pointy end. Also dark red/ brown ones are good too (if not better). Too peel them, bend the stem til it falls off, and then pick at the peel. That way the juice won't get all over your fingers and be wasted.
We have those in the Philippines and very common in south east asia. While apples, apricot, peaches, berries ect. are all imported. Its actually the season for rambutan fruit right now, the little hairy fruit ☺
Love this video. I've always wondered what to do with Buddha's hand. Is there anything you can do with that fruit besides zest it? I purchased once back in the day at the food emporium bridge market in Manhattan, but couldn't figure out what to do with it so I just zested some of it for the cheeze filling inside my arancini
In México we have all those fruits (except for the grapes) but they are so mainstream that the sweetsop juice is sold in tetrapacks like apple or orange juice. If someone happens to come here look for Boing de guanabana. And about the lychys you have to be careful sometimes they tint the skins and it makes them bitter and tint your fingers.
It is difficult to find red litchis even where I live, and it's one of the most common seasonal fruits here. A de coloured skin doesn't mean it has gone bad. Litchis retain their flavour for quite a while as long as you keep them dry (not in contact with water) and refrigerated. If litchi is not firm and too squishy to touch then it's gone bad but otherwise I can eat them. They also work great with summer smoothies but their taste is strong so you can't mix them with everything.
Those Teardrop grapes are grown by the Grapery. They have a bunch of unusual grape varieties, with the teardrops being my least favorite (they are ok, but not as good as their other stuff). They also sell very limited runs of cotton candy grapes and gumdrop grapes which look normal, but have a crazy amount of sweetness.
I don't know the English names for these but some fruits I had while I lived in Chile were a chirimoya a large green fruit with black dots on it and a very white flesh, I also had a fruit they called tuna (no it's not the fish) it was green and had green flesh, it tasted like honeydew Mellon (they even called that Melon tuna) and kiwi. Never really new how to cut the chirimoya so I didn't try it but would have loved to
Sugar apples are a very common vegetarian meat sub since when cooked they're like pulled pork in texture and when cooked avery meaty kind of fruit flavor to them, seasoned right you wouldn't taste or feel a difference in your mouth to actual meat. They're also good in the states for keeping pests out of your home if you put them by window sills in your house.
The sour apple is called "atis " here in the Philippines. I was confused because you considered those fruits such as rambutan and lychee as exotic. Here in Asia those are natural type of fruit
Passion fruit is my favourite citrus fruit. I love dragon fruit but its difficult to find in the UK, atleast in the stores i shop at. I really want to try lychee, are they available tinned all year round or are they seasonal?
Now I'm hoping to see guineps in a future video! I haven't had them in years, but I've heard they're on shelves in NYC now, so it could maybe, one day, make its way west? For now I'm just glad finger limes are a thing.
Where I live in southeast Asia, grapes, cherries, strawberries and apples are considered exotic fruits. I literally eat at least one of the fruits shown in this video every day.
Me too. I see a lot of videos for recipes that require strawberries, lemons, peaches, cherries basically every other berry and I'm like "do you know how expensive those are? And even if i find those it's not worth it cuz most of them or at least what i usually find are sour."
Shiro X that’s why they usually go with desserts, that sourness balance out the richness in desserts :)
Trường Ca Hành I thought I’m the only Vietnamese who watches kitchen conundrums
That's pretty cool :-)
Trường Ca Hành it's so funny because I've never had a passion fruit or dragon fruit buy I eat apples almost everyday and we even have a saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" 😂
I'm so glad that I live in Asia and I've been introduced to a wide variety of fruits so these fruits aren't "exotic" to me. Oh, Thomas, can you do a kitchen conundrum on Asian food?
g0rc same
Right?!
I live in america but I'm Cambodia, looks like normal fruit to me
For me to.
That'd be like you guys doing an exotic fruit video on cold weather plants.
How about mangosteen?
Joel Mangosteen
Delaney Winton HAHAHAHA yooo😂
ikr
Yess. And the water chestnuts that we get, Singhadas
Shamnah Usman yes! That one too.
Kitchen conundrums 2 days in a row!?!? Yay
i hope next video would be on exotic veggies. try petai, jering, tenggek burung, serai kayu etc...
ome mobh yassss... Those are yummy vegetables
Terung pipit
Jengkol...
It's always pairing with petai as the most smelly ones.
😂😂😂
You guys should make a video on all the giant green fruits like soursop, jackfruit and durian!!!
It's cool to see our fruits gain more popularity there. Here's a short list of fruits that might seem common to westerners but are super exotic to some of us too:
- raspberries
- blueberries
- blackberries
- cranberries
- most berries actually
- figs??
- olives
Seriously I've never even seen/tasted any of these fruits. Maybe as a flavor of candy or dessert, but never as a fresh fruit. Also someone send me pumpkin or rhubarb pie since I'm really curious how those taste.
Sincerely,
A southeast asian person
Also long live the longan
I live in Mauritius and those food are easily found here. I feel so proud.
Where was the longan
Nether's Herps ikr
Chill. He aint done. He said theres a series of it now. Jees
SaurriDienara everyone was chill...
SaurriDienara Calm your titties.
What he said as sweet sop is i think cherymoya. And there is a similar looking but very different fruit called sour sop.
You forgot the very stinky fruit in southeast Asia durian
man i love durian!
Debbie Nina Boc It smells like heaven idk wtf are you talking bout
don't reply to me saying armyy it's annoying your problem not mine
Debbie Nina Boc are you stupid or what? Everyone can tell that, she's playing.
Ntandoyenkosi Zungu your problem not mine
Most of that you can find in Thailand and everyone is welcome here.
พาสต้า พาสตี้ พาสตู้
And then after you eat the fruits you can eat the women at the red light district lol
Blue guy
Stay classy
What you said really telling what kind of people you are. Very true, agree?
I had a few of these when I lived in Honduras. Drinks made from passion fruit were my favorite. Rambutan grows there as well (they were introduced from SE Asia a while ago), but there it is referred to as lychee. I only saw custard apples once, but it was probably the best fruit I have ever eaten. It was like eating vanilla pudding.
Passion fruit is hands down my favorite fruit of all time. Thank god harmons always has them.
"What is this wrinkly thing and what am I supposed to do with it?" is a question I have asked many times in my life.
In Brazil we love this fruits, you buy on market or street market all year. Pitaya is new and very expensive here, i eat yellow one and pink one.
The "sugar apple" is actually called a custard apple.
Yes, that is called a custard apple.
When I've asked at the market, I've just gotten a shrug, so I really appreciate the explanations of how these fruits should look and feel when ripened. Now I feel more confident to try them. Good 'WTF' segment!
Durian, jack fruit, and sugar apple are EVERYTHING
You should try soursop, very similar to sugar apple but more tasty
Wow! that's offensive.
Texture of a banana plus taste of pineapple and apple
yehet yehet what?
In Thailand, for rose apple we have a special way to eat it. We peel, get the seeds out and freeze the white meat in the freezer. It becomes creamy icecream.
That's nice video!! Glad you made this to introduce to others who never seem these fruits! I'm from Hong Kong and have ate it all and love it! I have many friends don't even know these fruits!
Really weirds me out that something like passionfruit is considered exotic since it's available year round here in almost all supermarkets here in Australia (regular supermarkets, not the Asian speciality ones).
In the summer months all of the other fruits (except those grapes) are also available in most supermarkets.
Passion fruits are excelent for pies, juice! Just make sure to...(filter? strain? brew? sorry, I don't know) before using! Funny how you some "exotic fruits" at United States are very common here, at Brazil, while blueberrys, for exemple, are the exotic fruits at our markets.
exactly! Passion fruit mousse is like one of the best things to eat, ever! Berries are freaking expensive as well...
De Elias haha so true blueberries are exotic to us as well
I've never thought about blueberries being exotic as an American, that's really interesting!
thanks, now I'm craving passion fruit mousse
De Elias exactly! passion fruits are as common as bananas here ahahahah
Just to clarify something about the yellow variety of the passion fruit. It's not native to Hawaii, it's native to the Amazon areas of Brazil and Venezuela and it expanded throughout Latin America and then it was introduced in Hawaii. I grew up in Peru and my grandma grew the yellow passion fruit plant in her house. I used to have passion fruit juice and sorbet all summer. We also have an orange variety called "granadilla" which is gray in the inside (just like chia seeds when they are mixed with water) It is super sweet.
I eat those fruits in a daily basis. The last one is my favorite !
Here in the Philippines Sweetsop is called Atis.. lol just wanted to share.
Skyla we call it nona in Malaysia 😊
Raja Fais Bin Raja Zulkifli Nona in the Philippines is a girl's name :P
Hahahahaa...same here. Dont know why hahahaha
And here in Sri Lanka we call it "Aththa". I think this is not Anona. In my country we call Anona as "Anoda". What a small world it is!
Skyla caimito ba yung isa sa mga prutas? Yung kinompara niya sa passion fruit.
I live In Mauritius... a tropical island... I know all those fruits... all do grow here... and yes those are delicious fruit ❤
Here in Mexico we call maracuyá to the passion fruit, and pitajaya to the dragon fruit, I really love both. I prepare maracaya jam, is the most delicious jam I ever taste
Wow!! I have taste all but the grapes. And love all but the passion fruit.
This episode reminds me of New Year here in the Philippines. We would collect 12 different kind of round fruits and place them at center table. You can find most of the fruits you mentioned here and Atis ( sugar apple) is my favorite. Yummm...the best!
In the southeast of Mexico we call dragonfruit "pitahaya" and we make a drink with it. Just scoop out the fruit and in a pitcher crush it with your hands so that you have little bits to bite when you drink it, add water, sugar and throw some lemon juice in there, it's heaven!
living in Vietnam 🙂 when i was younger, seeing these fruit make me feel homesick
You forgot to introduce the longan (tiny round fruit with brown skin) that's beside the rambutan!
For those curious, peeling the brown skin (very easy to peel away btw) will reveal a fruit with white flesh wrapped around a black seed. The edible white flesh is very sweet! I prefer longan over rambutan as it's easier to eat.
So longan, Rambutan and Lichi are cousins
Frozen lichis are the best way to eat them! Those are one of my favourites!
Even though I'm in America. I enjoy all of these fruits. Especially passion fruit and Dragon.
Passion fruit is also native in the Caribbean and is a bright yellow both on the inside and outside
i'd love to see you do a video on jackfruit, I'm seeing it used in a lot of recipes as a vegan meat replacement like bbq pulled jackfruit sliders
yeah after you cook them, they tend to have a texture like a meat but they tastes sweet
@@ShirahShah They are normally eaten as-is (raw) in Asia. The seed of the jackfruit can actually be eaten. You just need to boil it in some salt water until it's cooked. A smaller version of the jackfruit is the Chempedak which is also delicious.
Those fruits are so present in my country.
I've tried all of them (no joke) and they're all really good
I'm so glad you did the sugar apple. One of my absolute favorites. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson actually cultivated those?
Also to add. Its also possible to tear open the dragon fruit. Gives more yield i.e you get all the fruit and discard only the skin.
There is other exotic fruits not explained in the video, you’ve probably never heard of like salak (snake fruit), belimbing (start fruit), jambu air (water apple), jambu batu (guava), tamarind, persimmon, sawo (sapodilla), nangka (jackfruit), breadfruit, and duku
are you malaysian or indonesian??? im malay btw
I am Indonesian
I've lived in China before, so I've eaten quite a few of these. Dragonfruit is common in China, as well as Rambutan in the south
Sugar apples are common all over the Mediterranean, ( Used to be my late granma favourite 😁), & as far as I learned from a lot of South Asian friends, all those fruits ( apart from the Witch Finger one) can be cooked as Fritters, or can be prepared in the same method of Gooseberry Fool dessert; which is: blending the paste of the fruit with Greek yogurt, vanilla, double cream,& sugar, and eat them as cold pot desserts.
Love to see your explanations!
Even living in Brazil we find almost all of these fruits here.
Our passion fruit is yellow and we have a sweet variety, which is so delicious!
We have the sweet apple and a cousin called atemoia that has less seeds and more pulp.
These are my regular fruits. Blueberries are exotic to me.
You should do a second video on this and showcase: mangosteen, soursop, durian, longan, nangka, jackfruit, purple dragon fruit, jambu, all the different types of mango and banana, and I think there's more.
Man, I'm blessed with diversity.
They're all my fav fruits!
The last one is custard apple i love it
I love this man. He is awesome
Finally found the fruit I tried in Taipei that my mom didn't know the english name for. Sweetsop!! Also, my family is Taiwanese and we have always pronounced it as "Lee-Chee."
I live in Colombian I'm amaze that some of fruits that grow here also grow on the other side of the world, that navi fruit, we call it anon is very tasty
I LOVE that apron!
Where I live we call that green fruit Guanábana, it's really sweet, Guanábana juice is the best 💚💚💚
Passion fruit or maracujá is so delicious so is custard apple or ata
Passion fruit cake with chocolate ganache
Litchi juice is really good fresh and cold or made into a slushy or shaved ice cream rambutan isn't as good as litchis
They are very common in Tanzania,Kenya and throughout the east coast of Africa
passion fruit and lychees, we have the same taste in fruit Thomas!
We call Sugar Apple as Custard Apple and I’m very lucky to have those fruits grown in my country .. it’s exotic fruit there but for me , it’s seasonal fruits and I grew up eating those except for that Grapes ...
Actually, for the Lychee you should look for heart shaped ones. Big upper part, pointy end. Also dark red/ brown ones are good too (if not better). Too peel them, bend the stem til it falls off, and then pick at the peel. That way the juice won't get all over your fingers and be wasted.
We do have passion fruit, rambutan, dragon fruit, lychee and sugar apple here in the Philippines.
I think I had a rambutan once, it tasted nice and the seed looked and tasted like an almond
Rambutan is my favorite. And mangosteen too.
We have those in the Philippines and very common in south east asia. While apples, apricot, peaches, berries ect. are all imported. Its actually the season for rambutan fruit right now, the little hairy fruit ☺
Love this video. I've always wondered what to do with Buddha's hand. Is there anything you can do with that fruit besides zest it? I purchased once back in the day at the food emporium bridge market in Manhattan, but couldn't figure out what to do with it so I just zested some of it for the cheeze filling inside my arancini
The Chinese dry the Buddha's hand to make dried fruit (like jerky). Its flavour is very unique! One of my favourite snacks 😄
Edial Grayson cool! I'm going to try doing that in my food dehydrator! Thanks for the tip!
Cotton candy grapes. They are so freaking amazing. Grown by the same farm that makes the teardrop grapes. Expensive but worth it.
Hi Thomas! You've forgotten about DURIANS!! That's luxurious tropical fruits for us in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia & Thailand 😉
In México we have all those fruits (except for the grapes) but they are so mainstream that the sweetsop juice is sold in tetrapacks like apple or orange juice. If someone happens to come here look for Boing de guanabana.
And about the lychys you have to be careful sometimes they tint the skins and it makes them bitter and tint your fingers.
Eat the sugar apple with fresh orange juice. We call it chirimoya alegre here and it's amazing... thought it's not a tropical fruit in here.
Ok three things:
1. I'm so happy you're introducing more exotic fruits to everyday consumers.
2. OMG that gas stove.
3. That apron...like!!!
It is difficult to find red litchis even where I live, and it's one of the most common seasonal fruits here. A de coloured skin doesn't mean it has gone bad. Litchis retain their flavour for quite a while as long as you keep them dry (not in contact with water) and refrigerated. If litchi is not firm and too squishy to touch then it's gone bad but otherwise I can eat them. They also work great with summer smoothies but their taste is strong so you can't mix them with everything.
They are all very common where I grew up except that grape. I snacked them all the time when I was a kid.
Hey Thomas, want to know about the difference between the all-purpose flour and the bread flour.
thank you so much! super good video and very handy
Very helpful. Thank you so much!!!
Sugar apple is called custard apple in India. N it's really tasty😊
Cool I need to look for those tear drop grapes as I live in the San Joaquin Valley in California.
Those Teardrop grapes are grown by the Grapery. They have a bunch of unusual grape varieties, with the teardrops being my least favorite (they are ok, but not as good as their other stuff). They also sell very limited runs of cotton candy grapes and gumdrop grapes which look normal, but have a crazy amount of sweetness.
what about cactus pear/prickly pear.
These are my favorite fruit
I don't know the English names for these but some fruits I had while I lived in Chile were a chirimoya a large green fruit with black dots on it and a very white flesh, I also had a fruit they called tuna (no it's not the fish) it was green and had green flesh, it tasted like honeydew Mellon (they even called that Melon tuna) and kiwi. Never really new how to cut the chirimoya so I didn't try it but would have loved to
Sugar apples are a very common vegetarian meat sub since when cooked they're like pulled pork in texture and when cooked avery meaty kind of fruit flavor to them, seasoned right you wouldn't taste or feel a difference in your mouth to actual meat. They're also good in the states for keeping pests out of your home if you put them by window sills in your house.
They’re all (except witch finger grapes) everyday fruits in the Philippines. In fact we have sweetsop/sugar-apple trees in our backyard.
The sugar apples are in most households in Ghana
You've been on a roll lately!!
I live in Florida and you can get all of these at the local grocery store.
in the Philippines we all have this fruits except the Californian Grapes and Passion fruit , Iam quite proud of my country :)
Thank you, very helpful!
I love rambutan, longgan and lychee
And you didn't mention that brown tiny fruit balls.
What are those called?
Can you give the list of them?
What were those round, medium brown, fruit tied together in a bunch? Not the grapes, but in the tray next to the Rambutan. Are those also Lychees?
So close but so far from mentioning the longan
Can someone please describe what rose apples taste like? Want to try.
The sour apple is called "atis " here in the Philippines. I was confused because you considered those fruits such as rambutan and lychee as exotic. Here in Asia those are natural type of fruit
can u do a video about mamey, ive tasted mamey ice cream and its so good but i dint know how the fruit should be eaten or used
You should try different kind of bananas~ lots of different kinds here in the Philippines
Passion fruit is my favourite citrus fruit. I love dragon fruit but its difficult to find in the UK, atleast in the stores i shop at. I really want to try lychee, are they available tinned all year round or are they seasonal?
Kori Skene
All year round I guess. You should totally try it, really sweet and fragrant.
jemy leo thanks! I hope i can find them.
Now I'm hoping to see guineps in a future video! I haven't had them in years, but I've heard they're on shelves in NYC now, so it could maybe, one day, make its way west? For now I'm just glad finger limes are a thing.
We've been getting teardrop grapes here in Asheville, NC for years. I guess we're ahead of NYC, lol
How do you “soak” dry chickpeas? And how do you cook with chickpeas?
What ahout the King of fruits- the Durian?! I'd like to see Thomas have a go at that. 😝