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    I liked it when I was younger, but it is so rare in the US as I've never seen it here. Maybe, you can Fedex some to me?

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    Only if you bring me a basket of these!

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    urrrgghhh...lychee is so rare too!!!! I saw longan earlier at the store and it costs $4.00 a pound. Let's go to Asia, so we can eat our heart out. awww...i feel so deprived.

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    They're Rambutans not Lychee. Lychees don't have the hairy skin.

    But speaking of Longans and Lychees, I'll take those too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuGu View Post
    They're Rambutans not Lychee. Lychees don't have the hairy skin.

    But speaking of Longans and Lychees, I'll take those too.
    Aiya, remember we once had a discussion about rambutans vs. lychees in Sparky's food thread (I think) and I couldn't differentiate between these two fruits? I guess I'm still confused! OK, rambutant is it!

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    I love sugar canes however, after much debating with my friends, I found out it's not really considered a fruit. It's a PLANT. I love sour mangoes.
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    Anyone else love mangosteen? I just loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee them!

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    You pick two heavenly fruits. Yummy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuGu View Post
    How sad is this? This is from an Asian country!!!!!!!!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by GuGu View Post
    How sad is this? This is from an Asian country!!!!!!!!!


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    haha. where is that sign from? i've never had durian before though.

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    speaking of durians, here's a story about my grandmother. she likes durians and she bought one and opened it up one day. well, she lived at that time in an apartment building full of elderly chinese people. in the apartment across the hallway, there was an old man who had been sick for some time and was at the end of his life. well, the day my grandmother opened up that durian, neighbors from the floors above, below, and down the hall all smelled it and thought that the old man had died and was decomposing in his room! so they called each other up and a few of them got together and were going to go to his apartment and check up on him. when they got there, they knocked on my grandmother's door first to see if she knew anything. when she opened the door, the smell was overwhelming, and she explained that she was having durian. that's when they realized their mistake and everyone had a good laugh. they never told the old man that they thought he died though.

    so moral of the story is, don't eat durian. people will think it's a decomposing dead body.
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    So umm....do any of you girls like BIG bananas???
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    Quote Originally Posted by oGaKirA View Post
    So umm....do any of you girls like BIG bananas???
    no, i like small ones.

    i think pemby likes them. i hear she eats a lot of big bananas.

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    reading this article from the nytimes about the "yum berry" fruit from china. does anybody know what fruit this is? i have a suspicion that it's those dried plum things.

    December 12, 2007
    From China, Only in a Bottle, a Berry With an Alluring Name
    By DAVID KARP

    YUMBERRY sounds more like the creation of an advertising agency than of nature — like Cherry Garcia or Juicy Fruit. But while the name was dreamed up a few years ago to help sell the fruit’s juice, which is just now appearing in stores around the country, the fruit has been grown for 2,000 years in China. It’s so popular there that about twice as many acres are devoted to growing it as the number devoted to apple orchards in the United States.

    The purplish juice has a sweet-tart flavor like a lighter version of pomegranate or mulberry. Like many dark juices, it’s rich in antioxidant compounds, and the first company to market it here, Frützzo, is hoping to ride the booming demand for such products.

    “We think yumberry’s the next pomegranate,” said Terry Xanthos, president of Frützzo, based in Alpine, Utah.

    In New York, Gristede’s markets will start selling Frützzo brand yumberry juice next week; it’s already available at Meijer stores in the Midwest; in the Southeast, Costco sells a yumberry-pomegranate blend; and Whole Foods stores around the country plan to carry yumberry juice in a month or two. A 12-ounce bottle of Frützzo organic yumberry juice costs about $3.60; the “natural” version (which the company says is pesticide-free) is about $3. The company also offers blends with cherry and blueberry. In addition to Frützzo, several other marketers are planning to introduce yumberry juice next year.

    The fresh fruit, called yang-mei, is not yet available for sale in the United States. It is chewy and juicy with a pit like a cherry. Most varieties have a bumpy purple or red surface, like a litchi, although the skin is edible.

    There are yang-mei festivals and pick-your-own orchards in the main growing area, Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai. Vendors by the side of country roads sell yang-mei in little baskets covered with ferns, and visitors sit under the trees and feast on ripe fruit.

    The tree that bears this fruit, Myrica rubra, is native to southeastern China, and related to the bayberry species whose fruits are used for making candles in the United States.

    The Chinese name means poplar-plum; in English it is called red bayberry or Chinese bayberry. The name yumberry was coined about 2003 by Charles Stenftenagel, a garden products importer from Indiana, when he was visiting a friend in Shanghai who owned a company that bottled the juice.

    “Since the way they pronounced yang-mei in their dialect was ‘yang-mee,’ it sounded a little like ‘yummy,’ and that gave me the idea to call it ‘yumberry,’” Mr. Stenftenagel said. “We thought it might be a catchy name.”

    Mr. Xanthos agreed. “It’s the best name in the history of fruit,” he said.

    The Chinese harvested yang-mei from the wild for 5,000 years before they cultivated it. The bushy evergreens thrive in the otherwise infertile hillsides in the warm, humid areas from Shanghai to Hainan. In the last 25 years, with the introduction of superior varieties and growing practices, production surged to some 865,000 acres, although much fruit is still gathered from semiwild stands. (By comparison, the United States has about 432,000 acres of apples, about 856,000 of citrus trees and 1,044,000 of grapes, the only American fruit crop with greater acreage.)

    The canned fruit is sometimes imported and sold here, mislabeled as arbutus, a Mediterranean fruit of inferior flavor which it superficially resembles. Yang-mei is also processed as a dried, sweetened and salted snack. The fruit is important in traditional Chinese medicine.

    For best flavor, fresh yang-mei, harvested from May to mid-July, must be picked ripe, at which point it is as perishable as a raspberry. Although the Chinese have sent small shipments of the fresh fruit to Europe, its importation to the United States is forbidden, to keep out insect pests.

    United States Department of Agriculture records say Myrica rubra trees, cuttings or seeds were imported at least 20 times from 1898 to 1962. Frank Meyer, the agricultural explorer known for introducing the Meyer lemon, brought yang-mei from China, and wrote in 1911, “Wherever it could be grown in the United States its fruit would be a very pleasant addition indeed.”

    So it seems mysterious that no one is cultivating it in the Southeast, where it could prosper. From about 1960, Ralph Sharpe and Wayne Sherman, fruit breeders at the University of Florida, kept a row of the trees in Gainesville, where three remain. They were grown as ornamentals, and while they bear copiously, the fruit is rather resinous, said Mr. Sherman, now a professor emeritus.

    For now, at least, juice is the best way to taste this fruit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pemberly View Post
    reading this article from the nytimes about the "yum berry" fruit from china. does anybody know what fruit this is? i have a suspicion that it's those dried plum things.
    I've never tried it, but it sure does look yummy.

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    I like strawberry, raspberry, honeydew & water melons, lychee, cherrys and suet lei.

    Quote Originally Posted by pemberly View Post
    speaking of durians, here's a story about my grandmother. she likes durians and she bought one and opened it up one day. well, she lived at that time in an apartment building full of elderly chinese people. in the apartment across the hallway, there was an old man who had been sick for some time and was at the end of his life. well, the day my grandmother opened up that durian, neighbors from the floors above, below, and down the hall all smelled it and thought that the old man had died and was decomposing in his room! so they called each other up and a few of them got together and were going to go to his apartment and check up on him. when they got there, they knocked on my grandmother's door first to see if she knew anything. when she opened the door, the smell was overwhelming, and she explained that she was having durian. that's when they realized their mistake and everyone had a good laugh. they never told the old man that they thought he died though.

    so moral of the story is, don't eat durian. people will think it's a decomposing dead body.
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    I like Durian, Strawberry, and mango. Its very fresh and delicious..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sillyana View Post
    I like Durian, Strawberry, and mango. Its very fresh and delicious..
    I love these fruits too, together with fresh cherry, golden apples, (semi-ripe) kiwi, small-sized banana

    lychee and longan are quite nice too...so is papaya although many people don't like it.

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