The mangosteen is also called the "honest fruit" simply because the number of clovers at the bottom tells you exactly how many cloves you'll get once you crack it open. Btw, I've never seen someone who loves mangosteen so much. Asian fruits are always fragrant (in various ways, if we considered the durian), so yeah... God, I miss home already... (not because I'm not in Asia, but because I'm in another part where my favourite fruits aren't available anywhere :'D)
+The Laughing Jack Don't worry man, all those are here in the US. The only one that may confuse you is the mangsteen, which is now legal, btw. However, if you live in Uk, i don't know what the rules are there.
I was in Guatemala in May and we picked gallons of fresh lychees. It was cool to taste variation found from tree to tree. What made the experience so great is that my professor for the class happened to be Chinese. Every time we ate some or went to pick them she got super excited. I haven't tried the other two but they look delicious! One of my favorite fruits though is jackfruit (although most people I know absolutely hate it). :D
I'm lucky enough to live in an Asian community so there are plenty of Asian fruits. Out of those, lychee would be my favourite. Sweet and juicy. As a consequence, they're very sticky when they dry on you though. I like all of these. As well as jackfruit, durian, long an, dragon fruit and persimmon. I'm not picky with food :P
If you want good Asian fruit you need to see SE Asian fruit ^^, Rambutan(way sweeter than Lychees!), Longan berries and best of all, JACKFRUIT! Jackfruit is the best ever!
Good quality mangosteen is soooo amazing. I completely agree with your description: like peach, clementine and lychee rolled into one. They are next to impossible to get good ones where I am in Canada :'( They look fine on the outside but bad or just tasteless on the inside. Only ever had good ones while visiting Asia.
Mangosteen is my most FAVORITE fruit ever! And yes they are expensive here in NYC! I love going back to Asia because we get a whole giant case of them. Now I wish I had some lol but ugh it's sooo good!!!
Lechee fruit are literally my favorite thing ever! Since we don't get a bunch of these in Minnesota my friends and I always try and find stuff. It's soooooo gooooodd!
Yes, it is a bit richer but the flavor is much better than durian ice cream in my opinion of course. I can only get fresh durian when it is in season and only at a certain market.
well, I am saying this tat the durian u guys buy in us is the regular one, in asia thr is much more type of durian tat is good, but i hate durian myself, juz some information for u guys
I want to try these Asian fruits so bad, because they're delicious culturally. My dad loves to eat Apple Pears every year during the spring and the summer. The produce market located up the street from our house has them out in season annually. The DNA is crossbred between an apple and a pear like you said.
Thank you for reminding me to eat the asian pear i had in my fridge! I keep these cold in my fridge until they juuuust start to ferment inside and theyre still crunchy but SO good!
i love durian durian, i love wild durian, i love Indonesian durian from Tarakian in Borneo region, their durian colour is extreme yellow and red and pale red. i also love mangosten, i normal eat 100 to 150kg of it, every time i go to Indonesia, i love Indonesia.
I'm from China, and I'm heading back there with my school during April vacation. I'm really hyped to try the food! I haven't eaten a lychee or asian pear in years. I've never had mangosteen, but I'd really like to try it!
I love Mangosteen! Tried it for the first time visiting family in Vietnam. Uncle squeezed it open between his palms and offered me it. Not having a clue I just shoved the white fruit into my mouth, expecting the worst. I fell in love and now weep at the fact we can't buy them readily in the UK.
Jackfruit, water apple or Jambu, and "asian bananas" are my favourite! These "asian bananas" are slightly longer then our finger, and they are sweeter then those commonly seen. When you have banana flitter, that is the banana used.
When I went back to China this summer, there was a huge bag of mangosteens in the fridge. I was eating it for 3/4 of the summer. I eat like 2-4 at a time. I ate until I am a little sick of them. I love tropical fruits so i am glad my province is a tropical place.
Hey! South-American girl hereee!! I have a chinese friend (he lives in Canada, but we met in Chile) who loveeees LICHI and I always wanted to know how it looked, because I have only tried the flavor in a Bubble Tea Shop!!! and now I knowww.... thanks for contributing!! I love your videos
Mangosteen were so cheap in Thailand, they were just spilling out of the backs of trucks. I definitely did not take it for granted! I ate so many of them! absolutely delicious
Lychee is the tastiest and juiciest of the three. Lychee has a smooth seed that is similar to longan so you can bite off the flesh easily, leaving only the smooth shiny seed. Rambutans have a rough seed somewhat like an almond nut. When you try to bite off the flesh, sometimes part of the seed might peel like a tree bark and stick with the flesh. All of them are sweet in their own way but lychee is most tender like grapes, so it is more juicy.
my late grandpa taught us how to eat the king and queen in large quantity..without getting sick or coughing..we would eat them alternately. eat some of the kings, then eat the queen..then go back to the king..when your house is surrounded by these trees and u really love them, it feels like nothing can stop you from eating all of them! our two most favourite fruits, durian and mangosteen😍
where i'm from in CA, all of these fruits are easily found fresh, and mangosteen is definitely one of my favorites! its about $130 a box with about 6-7 of those bags in 1 box. and i can eat 2 boxes to myself! i also love rambutan (the hairy fruit) and ice cream bananas and cherimoyas
I wonder why the Pineapple isn't the "King of All Fruits". I mean, it's very ornate looking, it is golden, and it's always consistently delicious 100% of the time, like a king who is always faithful to his people.
You clearly never eaten a durian cake before... anyway the price difference of a good durian and a good pineapple shows how much people are willing to spend. A good pineapple will not cost more then $10 and a good durian could cost you like $100.
Best thing about being Filipino-Japanese/Asian... I have tried mangosteen once, Never tried Chinese Pears, Ate lots of Korean Pears when you have a Korean Uncle, and Lychee is mostly common to find in Hawaii's Asian supermarkets.
I grow up in Vietnam and I must say...I'm very lucky to have tried almost all kinds of tropical fruits. Each one has many kinds of itself and depends on where they grow, the taste may very vary. In VN, mangosteens in Binh Duong province is most famous(I think) for its juicy sweetness n light souring, in other places they are maybe more sour. Now I'm in America and it's little bit disappointing about variety of tropical fruits. I don't see any fruit I liked at Krogers in Richmond city, Ohio.
After watching this video I bought lychees at an Asian market ( I was buying miso paste, chilli paste, and some other stuff). I AM IN LOVE WITH LYCHEES!!!!! 💖💖💖😋😋😋💖💖💖 After buying and trying them I talked incessantly about lychees and told my siblings the story I heard from you guys about the empress who loved lychees. Thank you so much for introducing me to lychees!!!! 😁😁😁
We have all those in Australia (Perth), and yes I have had all of them, the first items are called nashi pears and yes I do like them, I buy lychees when they are available, mangosteen fruit is cheaper here. All the fruits you have shown are grown in Australia, lucky me.
Hi, mike. Same with me. I don't like jackfruit. But I love it when it cook as a dish( jackfruit cook with coconut milk is the most i like) eat with white rice.
My favourite juice to drink is Asian Pear. So refreshing! That's the 1st time I've seen one shaped like an apple. Good quality pears are not grainy buy sweet & juicy with a delicate, light, crispy texture. How about Asian mangoes??? Love your t-shirt!
A long time ago there was mangosteen trees everywhere in my city, I remember just picking up the fruits from the ground when I was little, best times ever ^^ (I'm from Martinique in the Caribbean)
had a mangosteen for the first time in the Philippines six years ago and to this day i so tell everyone is my favorite fruit even over mangos and pineapples. people look at me crazy mostly cuz they don't know what it is. but u used to eat these by the kilos lol
Had the mangosteens when I was visiting Toronto years ago. Taste like fuzzy creamy pillows that has a flavor of lychee/pear/apple. Chilled durian is good too, but it took me several attempts before I acquired the taste tho.
I see why the Empress wanted to eat mangosteen every day! I have had the juice before in the past, but never the raw fruit until now. It is so delicate and delicious! I have the lychee left to try out of your trio. I like Korean pears better than the Chinese pears. Thanks for this video!
20 bux? you'd go crazy if you came to the farmers market near our house here in Fresno California, because you can get a bag of those like that for probably less than five bucks , it's great to live in an agricultural area with plenty of Asian farmers!
I love mangosteen too!! OMG! Its soo good.... 👍👍 its a must try fruit!! anyway I live in singapore so during the mangosteen season, many fruit stalls sell them and I will definitely buy them!! anyway my mother taught me that by counting the no. of petals from the "clover" at the bottom determine the no. of fruit it has inside! I am always counting them!! HAHA.... lychee is also my favourite fruit too!! it gives out a very fragrant smell and it is sweet too, a must buy fruit too!! I love love pears especially yellow pear aka asian pear! my mum also buy the chinese pear and would cook the pear to make pear juice!! its sooo nice!! love from singapore~♡
Apples are the best! But lychee, mangosteen, and Nashi pears are all so yummy! You need to try the chocolate pudding fruit! Yes there is such a thing! Its amazing!
I had a mangosteen while I was I for Guangzhou and my friend didn't tell me what was inside. It completely surprised me when I finally got I finally got into it. It was so tasty!!! Sadly I live in western Canada, in the prairies and it is darn near impossible to find these fruits here, and when you do, the don't taste nearly as good.
The ban on importing mangosteens was lifted in 2007, but they must be irradiated prior to import to kill the eggs of the Asian fruit fly. Also, Sichuan peppercorns from China were banned until 2005 to avoid introducing a citrus blight; they can now only be imported if heated to at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit first.
You can buy 3-4kg of the best mangosteen in Thailand with $20~! I've tried some mangosteen in other Asian countries (no offend intended here, just my personal thought of the taste) but they all were not as sweet and meaty as the Thai's one. I bought 2kg in Malaysia once and it was super good, later found out that it was imported from Thailand.
I'm not a big fruit fan either. Other fragrant Asian fruits that you seldom find in North America are champedak and rambutan. The latter can be found more often than the former. Custard apple and sour sop (Spanish: guanabana) are also great. Sour sop is grown in Latin America and makes a refreshing drink :) Have you tried any of these?
Strictly Dumpling In flushing? It's an hour and half drive from where I live and for sure it will be totally worth it :) and P.S. I watch your videos all the time and would love to meet you guys someday :)
Just a note, holding a lychee stem up and applying pressure near the top around the fattest part of the lychee results in the skin splitting into two lengthwise. It's a much easier and faster way to peel one.
Of all the asian fruit I've tried, longyan wins hands down for me. I've never found a good batch in Australia though. The freshest and most amazing longyan taste like they've been dipped in liqueur, soooooo yum! Lychees for me are like the longyan's little sister. Second-best fruit would be dongshizi (after you freeze it and defrost it and suck out its gooey magicness, oooohhhh.....)
@StrictlyDumpling Did you know that if you count the clover leaf at the bottom of the the mangosteen it would be the equal amount of pieces inside :) I'm from thailand and mangosteen is like freaking cheap 1kg is like less than 4 buck XD in asia american fruit are the expense one
In Indonesia, we call it the honest fruit. That clover thing on the bottom tells u how much clove you have on the inside. If there's 6 petals on the bottom, there will be 6 cloves inside. In Indonesia they are very cheap :)
Ohhhhh my God I love Mangosteen!!! My mouth was watering when I was watching you open it, I'm not kidding.... I had some in Sri Lanka for the very first time and it ruined me for other fruits lol xD Oh and btw, I don't like apples either.
yangmei would probably be in my top 3, but oh my god you're so right about mangosteen.... I don't think I've tasted anything that could come close to tasting like mangosteen it's just that good
Mikey, when I took a trip from Northern China to Guangzhou (Canton 廣州) in 1981, litchi (_lìzhī_ 荔枝) fruit happened to be in season. I was ecstatic, bought a whole bagful and started to devour them right in the middle of the plaza in front of the main train station. A mature lady stopped me and, probably in her best Mandarin, told me that a young man like me shouldn't eat so many of those fruit. I wondered why, until a Chinese friend told me they are considered an aphrodisiac. (The local matron may have been afraid of what I might do to the hapless local women.) Have you ever heard about this attribution (or myth)?
All I know is what my mother told me, lychee is considered "hot" in Chinese medicine. You could get a sore throat due to inflammation, worse temper, I'm not sure what others symptoms are associated with it. She also told me to be moderate when eating fried food because of this. And here's Mikey, eating hot oil like it's nothing. Maybe he has a higher tolerance or immunity.
Zer0zUNLTD. I like them both, but if I had to pick a favorite between the two I definitely prefer the Longyan. I thought it was so cool when my mom told me that it means dragon eye in chinese. :9
Back in our generation there weren't a lot of fruits grown in northern china because it was so damn cold during the winter and planting fruits was impossible back then.unlike the south were the climate was warmer and soil was more moist and easy to plant fruit than the north,cause the soil up there is way too dry.so mikey I can understand where you're coming from,stick with only one's you can tolerate,and avoid the one's you can't.i'm half northern Chinese from my dad side of the family,so I get it.
The mangosteen is also called the "honest fruit" simply because the number of clovers at the bottom tells you exactly how many cloves you'll get once you crack it open.
Btw, I've never seen someone who loves mangosteen so much. Asian fruits are always fragrant (in various ways, if we considered the durian), so yeah... God, I miss home already... (not because I'm not in Asia, but because I'm in another part where my favourite fruits aren't available anywhere :'D)
....oh asia, why are you so far away..
Berg Electron I dont..Iowa only hqs tye styrotypical fruits
+Berg “The Timer” Electron because it stink even i'm malaysian
+The Laughing Jack Don't worry man, all those are here in the US. The only one that may confuse you is the mangsteen, which is now legal, btw. However, if you live in Uk, i don't know what the rules are there.
luke xiao Hi, mangosteens are legal in the UK too, I live in London and often go to an Indian greengrocer to buy them 🙂
OMFG i love mangosteen while watching this i was eating mangosteen.
Bianca N nice!
Strictly Dumpling I hate apples too but a love apple pies
Strictly Dumpling I loooooooovvvvvvveeeeee mangostean
dead eye30o6 I can buy mangosteen here though, in the US
The ban was lifted in 2007
I was in Guatemala in May and we picked gallons of fresh lychees. It was cool to taste variation found from tree to tree. What made the experience so great is that my professor for the class happened to be Chinese. Every time we ate some or went to pick them she got super excited. I haven't tried the other two but they look delicious! One of my favorite fruits though is jackfruit (although most people I know absolutely hate it). :D
I'm lucky enough to live in an Asian community so there are plenty of Asian fruits. Out of those, lychee would be my favourite. Sweet and juicy. As a consequence, they're very sticky when they dry on you though.
I like all of these. As well as jackfruit, durian, long an, dragon fruit and persimmon. I'm not picky with food :P
If you want good Asian fruit you need to see SE Asian fruit ^^, Rambutan(way sweeter than Lychees!), Longan berries and best of all, JACKFRUIT! Jackfruit is the best ever!
I actually prefer jackfruit when they aren't ripe and added to stews. Unripe ones are often used as meat extenders
You are not alone in your distaste of apples.
I hate most apples except Fuji apples
I hate the smell of it they make me nauseous
Have you tried Longans Mike?
If you love lychee then you'll love Longans
Cloud Chan looooove longans!
Cloud Chan I have tried it I love longan
Cloud Chan stop talking about yummy food, my saliva 😇
Wish I had the fruit rn...;-;
Exactly the same thing
Good quality mangosteen is soooo amazing. I completely agree with your description: like peach, clementine and lychee rolled into one. They are next to impossible to get good ones where I am in Canada :'( They look fine on the outside but bad or just tasteless on the inside. Only ever had good ones while visiting Asia.
"shan'zhu" is the name of the last fruit. It is amazing. tastes a bit like Calpico (カルピス).
100% agree with the Mangosteen. Def the best fruit in the world.
Mangosteen is my most FAVORITE fruit ever! And yes they are expensive here in NYC! I love going back to Asia because we get a whole giant case of them. Now I wish I had some lol but ugh it's sooo good!!!
"Oh uh this is an Asian pear its uh, it's yellow uh"
Lechee fruit are literally my favorite thing ever! Since we don't get a bunch of these in Minnesota my friends and I always try and find stuff. It's soooooo gooooodd!
Mangosteen is quite cheap here in the Philippines. $20 could buy about 10lbs. or more.
You are so lucky.
Mark Wise 9.00 per LB here in Florida :( but I still buy it!
Just saying, I like durian and jackfruit
Hate jackfruit but love Durian
Durian is delicious! I like to open a fresh one and freeze the meat. It's like eating durian flavored ice cream.
Hayashi Daichi I can only buy frozen durian where I am. It seems richer than normal ice cream
Yes, it is a bit richer but the flavor is much better than durian ice cream in my opinion of course. I can only get fresh durian when it is in season and only at a certain market.
well, I am saying this tat the durian u guys buy in us is the regular one, in asia thr is much more type of durian tat is good, but i hate durian myself, juz some information for u guys
I want to try these Asian fruits so bad, because they're delicious culturally. My dad loves to eat Apple Pears every year during the spring and the summer. The produce market located up the street from our house has them out in season annually. The DNA is crossbred between an apple and a pear like you said.
That comedy with asian fruits? You sir, just won my subscribe. Oh, I love you beyond science channel too. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for reminding me to eat the asian pear i had in my fridge! I keep these cold in my fridge until they juuuust start to ferment inside and theyre still crunchy but SO good!
i love durian durian, i love wild durian, i love Indonesian durian from Tarakian in Borneo region, their durian colour is extreme yellow and red and pale red. i also love mangosten, i normal eat 100 to 150kg of it, every time i go to Indonesia, i love Indonesia.
mangusteen and rambutan is my fav! we have em in sri lanka..
oh and you must east asian pears COLD!!!!
yeah me too, they're basically tenacious in Singapore, the plants I mean
got the feeling that he will like the rumbu as well - it seem he like all those fruit with floral flavour
e21big rambutan? yeah I think he would too.
Sasuke Uchiha so long as he doesn't mind using a lot of toothpick
Same here! I'm from Sri Lanka as well lol. I giggled when I saw this comment. xD
Small world indeed.
I'm from China, and I'm heading back there with my school during April vacation. I'm really hyped to try the food! I haven't eaten a lychee or asian pear in years. I've never had mangosteen, but I'd really like to try it!
I love Mangosteen! Tried it for the first time visiting family in Vietnam. Uncle squeezed it open between his palms and offered me it. Not having a clue I just shoved the white fruit into my mouth, expecting the worst. I fell in love and now weep at the fact we can't buy them readily in the UK.
Jackfruit, water apple or Jambu, and "asian bananas" are my favourite! These "asian bananas" are slightly longer then our finger, and they are sweeter then those commonly seen. When you have banana flitter, that is the banana used.
When I went back to China this summer, there was a huge bag of mangosteens in the fridge. I was eating it for 3/4 of the summer. I eat like 2-4 at a time. I ate until I am a little sick of them. I love tropical fruits so i am glad my province is a tropical place.
Hey! South-American girl hereee!! I have a chinese friend (he lives in Canada, but we met in Chile) who loveeees LICHI and I always wanted to know how it looked, because I have only tried the flavor in a Bubble Tea Shop!!! and now I knowww.... thanks for contributing!! I love your videos
Wow Mike!! You deserve everything nice in life, what a sweet human.
You can't leave out Persimmon, Rambutan,Custard Apple, Durian, guava, Sugar Apple Annona squamosa, Cherymoya Annona cherimola...
Rambutan !!!! haha love em too
+Adaptive Gamer canned lychee is good, but the fragrance of the real fresh fruit was just too overwhelming for me haha, what a weirdo am i
Mangosteen were so cheap in Thailand, they were just spilling out of the backs of trucks. I definitely did not take it for granted! I ate so many of them! absolutely delicious
Also, don't forget passion fruit, 百香果.
Rambutans are better than lychees!
both of them are good
+Domenic Ariaudo
I love all 3...
I like rambutans, lychees, longans so basically all soapberries.
I've had longans. How do those other two compare?
Lychee is the tastiest and juiciest of the three. Lychee has a smooth seed that is similar to longan so you can bite off the flesh easily, leaving only the smooth shiny seed. Rambutans have a rough seed somewhat like an almond nut. When you try to bite off the flesh, sometimes part of the seed might peel like a tree bark and stick with the flesh. All of them are sweet in their own way but lychee is most tender like grapes, so it is more juicy.
my late grandpa taught us how to eat the king and queen in large quantity..without getting sick or coughing..we would eat them alternately. eat some of the kings, then eat the queen..then go back to the king..when your house is surrounded by these trees and u really love them, it feels like nothing can stop you from eating all of them!
our two most favourite fruits, durian and mangosteen😍
where i'm from in CA, all of these fruits are easily found fresh, and mangosteen is definitely one of my favorites! its about $130 a box with about 6-7 of those bags in 1 box. and i can eat 2 boxes to myself! i also love rambutan (the hairy fruit) and ice cream bananas and cherimoyas
I wonder why the Pineapple isn't the "King of All Fruits". I mean, it's very ornate looking, it is golden, and it's always consistently delicious 100% of the time, like a king who is always faithful to his people.
Triumvirate888 In Singapore, Durian is always crown the King and I shall vow to this. Pineapple is nahhhhh
Moh Sing Neo
You've clearly never eaten a pineapple upside-down-cake...
Triumvirate888 I'd take a durian puff over a pineapple upside-down cake anyday.
You clearly never eaten a durian cake before... anyway the price difference of a good durian and a good pineapple shows how much people are willing to spend. A good pineapple will not cost more then $10 and a good durian could cost you like $100.
Moh Sing Neo
That's because there's no such thing as a "bad" pineapple. Pineapples are consistently delicious every time.
10:17 LOL store owners be like "If you see this dude, don't let him in"
hahahahah I love the wayne's world skit XD
lol loved the last bit where you narked on kroger
Best thing about being Filipino-Japanese/Asian... I have tried mangosteen once, Never tried Chinese Pears, Ate lots of Korean Pears when you have a Korean Uncle, and Lychee is mostly common to find in Hawaii's Asian supermarkets.
I grow up in Vietnam and I must say...I'm very lucky to have tried almost all kinds of tropical fruits. Each one has many kinds of itself and depends on where they grow, the taste may very vary. In VN, mangosteens in Binh Duong province is most famous(I think) for its juicy sweetness n light souring, in other places they are maybe more sour. Now I'm in America and it's little bit disappointing about variety of tropical fruits. I don't see any fruit I liked at Krogers in Richmond city, Ohio.
After watching this video I bought lychees at an Asian market ( I was buying miso paste, chilli paste, and some other stuff). I AM IN LOVE WITH LYCHEES!!!!! 💖💖💖😋😋😋💖💖💖 After buying and trying them I talked incessantly about lychees and told my siblings the story I heard from you guys about the empress who loved lychees. Thank you so much for introducing me to lychees!!!! 😁😁😁
I LOVE ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My grandad grows his own durians and mangosteen. I'ts the best
Do you at least like persimmons?!?
+stopmotion foxx of course :-)
THEY ARE THE BOMB
+Strictly Dumpling im from asia trust me i hate i tell you i hate leeche i like rambutan,durian and mango steen(im from the Philippines)
+BraineaterProductions I prefer rambutan as well over lychee. Also soursop is the bomb.
+Strictly Dumpling Try throwing fuyu persimmons and (not much) star anise into (homemade) cranberry sauce. Crazy good.
yes. florida have so many lychee. its so good. yummy
An orchard in Arizona grows Asian pears. They don't taste like much, but they are filling and so juicy!
Mangosteen...I'm tearing up. Yes, Madame, you are the Queen of fruit!
lol. my dad was the one to introduce me to almost all the food i ate as a child. love those asian fruits.
We have all those in Australia (Perth), and yes I have had all of them, the first items are called nashi pears and yes I do like them, I buy lychees when they are available, mangosteen fruit is cheaper here. All the fruits you have shown are grown in Australia, lucky me.
I hate when apples are mealy and not crisp. THEY MUST BE CRISP AND FIRM. Apple sauce and apple pie make me cringe...
Omfg me too
Hi, mike. Same with me. I don't like jackfruit. But I love it when it cook as a dish( jackfruit cook with coconut milk is the most i like) eat with white rice.
My favourite juice to drink is Asian Pear. So refreshing! That's the 1st time I've seen one shaped like an apple. Good quality pears are not grainy buy sweet & juicy with a delicate, light, crispy texture.
How about Asian mangoes???
Love your t-shirt!
A long time ago there was mangosteen trees everywhere in my city, I remember just picking up the fruits from the ground when I was little, best times ever ^^ (I'm from Martinique in the Caribbean)
had a mangosteen for the first time in the Philippines six years ago and to this day i so tell everyone is my favorite fruit even over mangos and pineapples. people look at me crazy mostly cuz they don't know what it is. but u used to eat these by the kilos lol
I have tried the Lycees and you are definitely right beautiful fruit I buy them every chance I can.
I LOVE mangosteens, also Lyche and the small yellow mangos. All of which I can now buy in my closest Supermarket.
Mangostine hands down best fruit ever sour and sweet had it once when i was 8 in cananda will never forget its flavor.
Had the mangosteens when I was visiting Toronto years ago. Taste like fuzzy creamy pillows that has a flavor of lychee/pear/apple. Chilled durian is good too, but it took me several attempts before I acquired the taste tho.
i agree the last fruit is the best
I see why the Empress wanted to eat mangosteen every day! I have had the juice before in the past, but never the raw fruit until now. It is so delicate and delicious! I have the lychee left to try out of your trio. I like Korean pears better than the Chinese pears. Thanks for this video!
20 bux? you'd go crazy if you came to the farmers market near our house here in Fresno California, because you can get a bag of those like that for probably less than five bucks , it's great to live in an agricultural area with plenty of Asian farmers!
Even here in Colorado Springs we have Asian markets and they are a few bucks for a few of them. poor guy
I love mangosteen too!! OMG! Its soo good.... 👍👍 its a must try fruit!! anyway I live in singapore so during the mangosteen season, many fruit stalls sell them and I will definitely buy them!! anyway my mother taught me that by counting the no. of petals from the "clover" at the bottom determine the no. of fruit it has inside! I am always counting them!! HAHA.... lychee is also my favourite fruit too!! it gives out a very fragrant smell and it is sweet too, a must buy fruit too!! I love love pears especially yellow pear aka asian pear! my mum also buy the chinese pear and would cook the pear to make pear juice!! its sooo nice!! love from singapore~♡
I've tried 2 of the 3 (Asian pear, Lychee) and they're delicious. I look forward to eating the mangosteen.
Apples are the best! But lychee, mangosteen, and Nashi pears are all so yummy! You need to try the chocolate pudding fruit! Yes there is such a thing! Its amazing!
I had a mangosteen while I was I for Guangzhou and my friend didn't tell me what was inside. It completely surprised me when I finally got I finally got into it. It was so tasty!!! Sadly I live in western Canada, in the prairies and it is darn near impossible to find these fruits here, and when you do, the don't taste nearly as good.
The ban on importing mangosteens was lifted in 2007, but they must be irradiated prior to import to kill the eggs of the Asian fruit fly. Also, Sichuan peppercorns from China were banned until 2005 to avoid introducing a citrus blight; they can now only be imported if heated to at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit first.
You can buy 3-4kg of the best mangosteen in Thailand with $20~!
I've tried some mangosteen in other Asian countries (no offend intended here, just my personal thought of the taste) but they all were not as sweet and meaty as the Thai's one. I bought 2kg in Malaysia once and it was super good, later found out that it was imported from Thailand.
I'm not a big fruit fan either. Other fragrant Asian fruits that you seldom find in North America are champedak and rambutan. The latter can be found more often than the former. Custard apple and sour sop (Spanish: guanabana) are also great. Sour sop is grown in Latin America and makes a refreshing drink :) Have you tried any of these?
I don't really like apples myself but i like italy imported apple. They're soft and fragrant and sweet, though it's small.
I hear you on the apples your not alone!!!
I've always known about these fruits, but never heard anyone mention how awesome they are. I hope I can find 'em.
I get you with apples, I feel the same about dried figs and plums.
“I’m not worthy I’m not worthy” lmao
I totally agree with your top 3
I loveeeeeee mangosteen!!!!!
But i have no where to buy them here in CT 😢😤
xiaoli shin come to NYC!
In Thailand they have a lot of mangosteen
Strictly Dumpling In flushing? It's an hour and half drive from where I live and for sure it will be totally worth it :) and P.S. I watch your videos all the time and would love to meet you guys someday :)
xiaoli shin Thank you for watching! Absolutely! Come eat with us sometime :-)
It’s just a hop on metro north, then the number 6 subway down to Manhattan Chinatown when the fruit vendors are out on canal street.
Just a note, holding a lychee stem up and applying pressure near the top around the fattest part of the lychee results in the skin splitting into two lengthwise.
It's a much easier and faster way to peel one.
Pretty similar to how you open a mangosteen as well.
lychees are life
Of all the asian fruit I've tried, longyan wins hands down for me. I've never found a good batch in Australia though. The freshest and most amazing longyan taste like they've been dipped in liqueur, soooooo yum! Lychees for me are like the longyan's little sister. Second-best fruit would be dongshizi (after you freeze it and defrost it and suck out its gooey magicness, oooohhhh.....)
@StrictlyDumpling Did you know that if you count the clover leaf at the bottom of the the mangosteen it would be the equal amount of pieces inside :) I'm from thailand and mangosteen is like freaking cheap 1kg is like less than 4 buck XD in asia american fruit are the expense one
In Indonesia, we call it the honest fruit. That clover thing on the bottom tells u how much clove you have on the inside. If there's 6 petals on the bottom, there will be 6 cloves inside. In Indonesia they are very cheap :)
My top 3 asian fruits 1. Longan 2. Mangosteen 3. Mango
Btw durian is an acquired taste and is really yummy doesn´t taste like socks or feet at all.
My mangosteen story from my childhood was opening the fruit and occasionally finding live ants in them.
Ohhhhh my God I love Mangosteen!!! My mouth was watering when I was watching you open it, I'm not kidding.... I had some in Sri Lanka for the very first time and it ruined me for other fruits lol xD
Oh and btw, I don't like apples either.
They lifted the ban on mangosteens about ten years ago. Now you can find them at 99 Ranch throughout the season.
The ban on Mangosteens was lifted in 2007. They used to believe that they harbored a fruit fly that was non native and could be destructive.
I love the Queen, it's my favorite, I don't know from where did it come from but my mom brings it to me when i was a kid.
yangmei would probably be in my top 3, but oh my god you're so right about mangosteen.... I don't think I've tasted anything that could come close to tasting like mangosteen it's just that good
Rambutan and the Asian pear are my favorites! .3.
I love them too!
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Mikey, when I took a trip from Northern China to Guangzhou (Canton 廣州) in 1981, litchi (_lìzhī_ 荔枝) fruit happened to be in season. I was ecstatic, bought a whole bagful and started to devour them right in the middle of the plaza in front of the main train station. A mature lady stopped me and, probably in her best Mandarin, told me that a young man like me shouldn't eat so many of those fruit. I wondered why, until a Chinese friend told me they are considered an aphrodisiac. (The local matron may have been afraid of what I might do to the hapless local women.)
Have you ever heard about this attribution (or myth)?
All I know is what my mother told me, lychee is considered "hot" in Chinese medicine. You could get a sore throat due to inflammation, worse temper, I'm not sure what others symptoms are associated with it. She also told me to be moderate when eating fried food because of this.
And here's Mikey, eating hot oil like it's nothing. Maybe he has a higher tolerance or immunity.
One of the best video!!
Asian pears are amazing and I buy mangosteen in Canada all the time! soo yummy
I am so glad I'm not the only one who hates apples but can drink apple juice, lol!
Ur favourite fruit is also my favourite!! Omg it is so awesome!!
last one dont miss it try it coz it is just the best
what about longan vs lychee? literally called dragon eye in Chinese
well yeah, I know... I was just wondering if he liked it or not because longan is more expensive and debatably tastier
Zer0zUNLTD. both is good~
i actually like to eat them both~
Zer0zUNLTD. I like them both, but if I had to pick a favorite between the two I definitely prefer the Longyan. I thought it was so cool when my mom told me that it means dragon eye in chinese. :9
+Zer0zUNLTD. i love longan even though i like lychee also its easier to the longan out all you have to do is peel
Back in our generation there weren't a lot of fruits grown in northern china because it was so damn cold during the winter and planting fruits was impossible back then.unlike the south were the climate was warmer and soil was more moist and easy to plant fruit than the north,cause the soil up there is way too dry.so mikey I can understand where you're coming from,stick with only one's you can tolerate,and avoid the one's you can't.i'm half northern Chinese from my dad side of the family,so I get it.
Mangosteen and soft persimmons are the BEST.
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I've only ever had these fruits in juice/canned form. I've gotta try them fresh one day!
"I brought these from Kroger" I laughed way too much