Love how big sis be "big sissing" through the video. It made me laugh because I'm the older sister, but my little sister (6 years) would never tolerate it, lol .... 😂
Her big sister is hilarious, always butting in to correct her and treat her like the little kid still, even when she is wrong! As the youngest in my family, with three older sisters, it is very relatable!
I think I can explain the apple thing: in Old English apple was just a generic word for fruit, then later on it changed to only mean one specific fruit. This is also where the name pineapple comes from - it's a fruit that looks a bit like a pinecone. I think the only one of these that we can easily get in the UK is the passionfruit. Dragonfruits are sometimes available, but they're tiny compared to yours! Tamarind is also available, but only as a paste. I think I've only ever seen guava as an ingredient in say a drink. The rest of them you may be able to find at specialty shops, but not in the normal supermarkets.
@raraavis7782 I love that cause in French potato is pomme de terre. Translated directly to apple of the earth, so I like to call them dirt apples in English.
I'm from Bolivia and it made me so happy to see how even across continents you grew up with many of the same fruits as I did that is so cool! sending love to you Uyen!
You ought to know, if you're from Bolivia, that your ancestors and/or your neighbours ancestors or some of your ancestors, however you wanna think about it--they are responsible for some of the greatest agricultural achievements known to all of us the world over. It's no coincidence that some of these fruits and vegetables are grown in Vietnam. They made it there via the Spanish conquistadors. Capsicum/Bell peppers/Chili peppers, Potato, Pineapple, Peanuts, Tomato, Guava, Papaya, Passion Fruit, and the list goes on. And of course the Earth gives us those bounties, but I often find myself with a profound sense of longing to thank the people of South America. And want them to know how the fruits and vegetables they picked with their hands became popular all over the world.
Fruit fact: In Vietnam, there is a folk story about the "Vú sữa" (Star apple): There was a son who's very naughty and don't care for his mother at all. So when she was ill, he wasn't there for her. Later she passed a way, the boy couldn't find his mother for food (to eat) so he run around crying. After sometime, he realized how wrong he was for being a naughty-boy, which costed his mother's live. The corpse of the mother however, became a tree, which is the Star Apple tree. It produces juices just like a mother's breast milk, which reminded the boy about his mom. Then we would call it "Vú sữa" - breast milk !
@@loudchihuahuai never would have connected the giving tree to this story but you’re right, it’s super similar!!! so smart of you to think of that, so cool!
the way uyen describes the taste of each fruit is so good and so helpful because for every fruit i had tried i thought her description was very accurate, so for the fruits i haven't tried not only did i know her descriptions were probably quite accurate but it was also really helpful for imagining the taste.
Wowwww, every time I see tropical fruits in supermarket,I get excited, but then I realise, that in Russia tropical fruits won’t be of great quality. But you can buy mangostins or dragonfruits in supermarket
I love these traveling videos. They really suit you. You don’t try to make things fancy or hype up the place. Just your pure experience and commentaries. I love how wholesome it is. Looking forward to more of your long videos.
I live in Scotland and the most tropical fruit we have, is a gala apple 😑 Btw you are looking amazing, I think a trip home did you the world of good 🫶🏻❤
Wow. Each video of you show us, I am so jealous of all the fresh produce just growing everywhere all the time because it's warm always. My Canadian heart cries. 😅❤
@@KiryubelleKazuma You can get strawberries in Da Lat, Vietnam. "Mike & Ashley" went there last year and said the strawberries were the best they ever tasted.
Had Custard Apple in Australia for the first time - I was 16 and outside of Europe for the first time in my life. It broke my mind, it was so incredibly delicious. I've been craving it ever since and slowly but surely, they've been popping up here in Europe too.
Custard apples are one of my favourite fruits. Here in India, my aunt has a few custard apple trees in her garden and she brings lots of fruits when she comes to visit!
I am from Jamaica and almost all of these fruits were common in my childhood. You have inspired me to go back to my home community for some good quality fruits directly from the trees. It's so crazy that two countries so far apart could be so similar. (Also, that red bell fruit looks so much like our otaheite apple from the outside but ours have a large seed).
I love this! I grew up eating just really basic fruits and vegetables, so now that I'm an adult I love to go to the local farmers markets Asian grocery stores and try all the fruits and veg I've never had before. Videos like this help me understand the right way to eat all those new foods and also help me grow the list of foods that I want to try.
I can feel the pain of all my tropical peers leaving abroad in a cold weather country. Berries are great, but tropical fruits (and other foods in general) take the crown 👑
I love all the videos that you are making in Vietnam. It's great to learn about your home, family, food, culture, etc. I look forward to more videos in the future!
I'm from Kerala- India,now living in Melbourne Australia,We get most tropical fruits here thanks to Queensland has a tropical climate..My favorites are Jack fruit, Custard apple, Mangosteen, Mango..
I’m in Melbourne too. I love that we can grow cooler climate fruit like apples, cherries, pears, and berries, and also Mediterranean fruit like peaches, apricots, kiwi fruit, oranges and lemons, passionfruit, grapes,and then we also easily get good fresh tropical mangos, lychees, bananas etc. We are in a very fortunate place!
As a Trinidadian, the fact that we also have some of these fruits is so interesting to me! We make sauce with tamarind. We call the custard apple “soursop” and make juice with it!
Uyen, just to let you know that passion fruit is bitter when the outer shell is "soft"...it tends to be sweeter when the shell is more "rugged"...usually the more rugged, the better!
I would say ...the passion fruit is bitter when the skin is smooth like a baby's bottom and it is sweet when the skin looks like his old granny's face😀😂
@justicedinosaur7302 This is why I always cut it on a plate, so that I can lick the juice off the plate. Hers was definitely to green, the rind still had green hues in places.
Sapodilla also known as 'Chiku' in Singapore and Malaysia. Back in the day, we'll bury it in the rice container for it to mature and to prevent insects from infesting it. Raw chikus will have sap within and it's hard and inedible - must wait until the sweet scent is present and fruit is very soft to the touch before it can be eaten. Very yummy caramel sugar-like taste for the ripe ones :)
Tamarind is my favourite!! I love how tart and sweet it is. Very popular in Mexican culture. Also, those guava are enormous! The ones where I live are tiny, maybe a quarter of that size!
Tamarind is called "tetul" in bengali... And in Bangladesh, we have the sour tamarind... But my uncle brought sweet tamarind from Thailand and we were blown out after eating that... It was sooo tasty.. And sapodilla is called "sofeda" here...I hate it's meaty, grainy texture..but my mom likes it
Some of these (like dragonfruit, passionfruit, custard apple, mangosteen etc.) you can actually sometimes find in German supermarktes, like Kaufland, Rewe, Edeka etc. but theyre probably not as tasty as from the source 😊 Some have different names here though, if youre ever looking for them, the custard apple is called Cherimoya for example 😊
Hab noch nie Mangosteene in irgend nem Supermarkt gesehen außerhalb von Asiamärkten. Drachenfrucht gibt es auch nur die, die innen weiß sind, die sind überteuert und schmecken nach Wasser. Ne Maracuja kriegst du auch easy beim Rewe und teilweise gefroeren als Püree, das stimmt, aber für den Inhalt auch ziemlich teuer.
@@KiryubelleKazuma Ist vermutlich auch Geschäfts- bzw. Regionen-abhängig, aber bei uns gibt es Mangostane tatsächlich ab und zu im Kaufland, ebenso die Drachenfrucht mit weiß aber auch rot drinnen, ich hab sie auf jeden Fall dort schon gekauft. Auch andere exotische Früchte wie Sternenfrüchte, Papayas etc. hab ich da schon gefunden.
I LOVE your videos! Absolutely very creative & funny & real! Thanks for sharing! Keep up the content & many many blessings to you & ALL your loved ones!!! You ROCK!!!
The passion fruit one. In our country(philippines) or maybe just part of our country. We open passion fruit at the top so it looks like a bowl. Then we put salt and bit of vinegar or you can just put salt to balance the sourness. ITS VERY GOOD
Ripe sapodilla tastes best in a milk shake with rose flavour. Back home in India we used to order a rose chikoo milkshake. Hope ur travels take u to India in summer. You must try litchi from Muzzafarpur and Alphonso mangoes from Konkan. Chart topping fruits taste wise.
@@missphatp that probably means you have access to fresh ripened sweet fruit. In Indian cities semi ripe fruit is available in the stores and they are a little hard to squeeze. We use knife to peel and then extract the pulp. ua-cam.com/video/XkpemHI_kL8/v-deo.html I really miss village life in India..no plastic , all organic food plucked right from the non-genetic engineered plant/trees. I think those days are lost for ever..
@@ayshabinthnoor 100% no sugar needed for ripe fruit.. Kerela reminds me of tender coconut. Here while eating melo melo coconut desert I dream of tender coconut malai I had in Kerela. Its been almost 2 decades that I visited there..and yet vividity of that taste lingers with me to the present day. Enjoy Kerela - Indeed god's own country.
Passion fruit is amazing! In Hawaii we have our own variant called Lilikoi. It has yellow skin and is very sweet! Hardly sour at all! I love Lilikoi, but I like the sourness of regular Passion fruit too!
It's so funny how you like the smell of the guava! My family came from a northern country to a very warm one when I was about 7, and I remember how pungent the smell of a guava was for us. My grandpa used to say it smelled like strawberries mixed with cow droppings😅 We got used to the smell over the years though
I'm not Vietnamese but in the US I buy dragon fruit and mix it with a little bit of condensed milk and rice. The really rural farming states probably won't have it, but the major states do in corporate grocery stores. Tamarind and mangosteen are around sometimes, but I haven't bought them in stores yet. I do love mangosteen snack drinks though
A lot of those--dragon fruit, cherimoya, guava, passion fruit--are native to Mexico, Central, and South America. So luckily I can get those in my local grocery store and I am happy they are getting the love they deserve. ❤️
Thank you for sharing, as others have said. What we see in grocery stores don't compare to what you are blessed with, anything we get is smaller or totally not available and alot are not good, but we dont realize til bringing home and trying. Its great seeing what things should look like, and you describing taste and texture is great, You do make interesting and funny, lovely videos. :D been watching you and your family for a year, Again thank you and God bless
Depending on when the English name for the fruit was made, "apple" might have meant "fruit" instead of the specific fruit that we now mean when we say apple. Up until the 1600s, apple was the generic word for fruit. Banana's were called appel of paradis "apple of paradise." Dates were called fingeræppla "finger apples." So "custard apple" might be "custard fruit," and all the apple translations to English might just be "fruit."
I'm Hispanic and A lot of the fruits you ate I actually tried! and have different names in Spanish, and ways I ate it. Passion Fruit= Maracuyá *We use Passion Fruit to make a Drink out of it! Custard Apple= Guanábana *I miss this fruit Guava= Guayaba *We use the leaves for a tea! Tamarind= Tamarindo *We use tamarind for many drinks and desert
The fruits look delicious! Thank you for making such interesting and fun videos about your Vietnamese culture/heritage. I always learn something new and also enjoy watching you interact with your family 😊
I had the red bell fruit in Hawaii, I think it is also called a rose apple. It wasn’t super flavorful but I loved the texture! I tried lots of these fruits there and it was amazing.
Try passion fruit with salt😊 it taste good. We usually cut the top part only enough to make a hole for a teaspoon to fit to mix a pinch or two of salt. Then we drink it with a straw 😋. ~from your friendly neighbour 🇵🇭
In Malaysia, the bell apple or water apple or rose apple are smaller and more oval rather than round. I love to eat it with a mixture of sugar and soy sauce. So it taste sweet and salty. Matches awesomely with the juicy rose apple. Yummy.
I like to eat bell fruit with sweet soy sauce, sometimes adding some small chilli. It’s very refreshing to eat that way. My family calls it water pear in Mandarin.
I had custard apple while living in Brazil nearly 10 years ago, and I haven't been able to figure out the English name until your video! Thank you for helping me out! It is such a sweet, delicious fruit, and one of my favorites from my time there.
Passion fruit is my absolute favorite kind of fruit. They grow in the Azores where my father is from and he grows it here in California. You can’t find them in the grocery store. I love how sour they are they don’t need sugar to me
In the Caribbean (specifically St. Vincent) we call custard apple sugar apple and we don't cut it we just break it in half and eat it one seed at a time And we call bell fruit, wax apple
Thank you for sharing! I live in Australia and a lot of these fruits are available to buy from Asian grocers, but I never knew how to pick the best ones for eating!
Hi from Australia. I love, love, love fruit just like you and we have an abundance of it here. We are seeing more and more tropical fruits thanks to the large Asian communities that have come here and now your video has inspired me to go and try more. Frustratingly, most of the Asian traders still only use asian signage so I am never sure what to buy or how to eat it. I was really fascinated by your use of salt with fruit!! I would never think of spoiling such beautiful flavours by adding salt, but maybe now I'll experiment a bit. I was also really surprised at your reaction to passionfruit. It is almost a staple fruit here (so easy to grow - NO snakes in Melb gardens, and a must with pavlova) but we don't eat it until the outside starts to get dried and wrinkled. The passionfruit you ate does not look ripe enough to me. Off to do some fruit shopping now!
Mango is very commonly eaten with salt and a chile lime seasoning powder called tajin here in the Americas. The best way I’ve found to recreate it in Australia is to get a very mild red chili pepper powder (guajillo or some other mild Mexican chile) and mix it 1:1 with sea salt. Squirt fresh lime juice on the mango, dip the chili salt powder into the lime, and eat. Watermelon is also commonly eaten sprinkled with salt - just lightly. It will make the flavor POP! (Or you can shred basil and feta cheese into cubed watermelon, lightly salt the entire thing, and have a delicious salad.)
@@khills Well, that's food for thought. It's certainly interesting learning about food and other cultures. My grandmother always made tomato sandwiches with salt and pepper and a small pinch of sugar.
the red bellfruit is called Mận An Phước which is specialty of a province in the West of Vietnam. This kind of bellfruit is sweeter and jucier than others
South and South East Asis are so blessed to have such lovely variety of fruits. Most of these are in India as well and in a similar fashion, they can be made into a 'fruit chaat' with rock salt, milder chilli powder and such... Mango (The KING of fruits) was missing though... Ha...
Please tell your sister thanks for the help.. love seeing your relationship 😅😅 Not very different from other siblings ❤ .. in all honesty, i like her.. hope to see her in the future also
Thank you for sharing so many foods from your country with us! I love the ones I have tried but I haven’t tried them all. Hopefully one day if I am lucky!
4:43 "Apple" etymologically used to refer to any fruit in general, not just what we call an apple today. Same goes for german "Apfel"; that's why in some german dialects the name for potato is still "Erdapfel" (literally: Earth-Apple).
Thank you so much!! In South Africa we have guava, and when ripe it is yellowy on the outside and pink inside. You can smell it from afar (very delicious). It's soft and you break it and eat it all, my favourite fruit ever (winter fruit in Cape Town), and I miss it so much after 20 years in Europe and eating it only once a year on holiday in SA. I was so happy to find it on Tenerife once😂. I was therefor so surprised to see the hard, green guava here!!
I've had plenty of custard apples, tamarinds, mangosteen (my absolute favourite!), passionfruit (and I would NEVER add sugar to one apart from passionfruit icing on a cake), dragonfruit - which I think looks prettier than it tastes, guava (I had a cherry guava tree once and they were delicious). We used to live in far north Queensland, Australia, so there is an abundance of tropical fruit up there. And mangoes to die for.
if anyone sees this and is curious about the salt uyen used it's muoi cham hao hao salt (salt & chili mix) that you use to season noodles - it helps to bring out the sweet taste in a lot of bitter fruits sometimes! try it if you've never done it - for example you can also try chili powder alone with pineapple it makes it so tasty :D
Now I am super curious what fruits you like when you're in Germany :D Will you make a video about fruits from German super markets? (maybe in strawberry season)
Thank you so much Uyen! I've seen some of these fruits at the Asian market where I live. Even though I'm also South East Asian, there are some fruits that I've never tried but I was always so intimidated to try. Thanks to your video, I'm going to try some of these :)
Most of those fruits are available in India too. I love guava! ❤ In India when it’s bit green and hard you can eat it with salt or salt and chilli powder mix, and when it’s ripped and soft it’s sweet fruit. And custard apple is one of our favourite fruits too! So sweet! And papaya… yum
Growing up eating the few tropical fruit that my paternal Grandparents grew in my childhood home feels like such a privilege. Guavas, figs loquats and even the lemon tree. i love all those fruits now and eating them has a such a great feeling of being home. They also just taste great.
I’ve never had a good guava in my life, but guava nectar is probably my favorite juice ever. Nice to know that guavas are inconsistent, it’s not just me 😂 love the food content btw!!
A very interesting video! I loved seeing all the different fruits. In Australia we are very familiar with passionfruit. It is used in all sorts of sweet dishes, especially as a topping sprinkled on top of pavlova, a very popular dessert here.
In Iraq we also eat Tamarind as a snack and for cooking ,,and I just know its name in English which is the same as the Arabic name (Tamar Hind) which literally means Indian dates (Tamar:dates,,Hind:India) ,, I guess because we used to import it from India and it kinda looks like dates(Iraq is famous for its dates)
Yay I love your videos! It feels like travelin, with the fun of all the small exciting things about the little cool things like vietnamese fruit or german supermarkets!
In Italy we eat prickly pear. Dragonfruit is a kind of prickly pear too and they taste the same: i.e. like a watered down overripe kiwi with annoying seeds, with a serving of spines if you're unlucky.
Sooo relaxing and enjoyable video! Thank you for the explanation about different kinds of custard apples! Sapodilla reminds me about persimmon, but they are not "relatives". I love mangosteen, it also tastes very close to rhubarb. I'm curious, have you tried persimmon or rhubarb and what you thing about them?
Dear Uyen's sister, thank you for you input into another amazing video. Your sister drops many things and this is the effect of living in a decadent German culture. You should speak to the family, and stop her from leaving and being corrupted further. In the meantime, I look forward to the channel of the smarter, more sensible sister.
Bell fruit is one of my favorites, I'm really sad I can't find it here in the US. You're right that the flavor isn't the most intense, but it has a really unique texture, and the crisp juiciness is really refreshing. It's one of the best snacking fruits out there, imo.
In Malaysia & Taiwan. We love to dip our Bell Fruits in sour plum powder to enhance the flavour of fruit. We use plum powder to eat every fruit that taste mild, like Guava, pears, dragon fruits etc..and it would make any mild fruit tastes so good! 😊
I both loved this video so much with fruits and was appalled at the waving the knife around/hand talking/cutting in the air! I was like woman you need some kitchen safety classes! I was worried lol
Love how big sis be "big sissing" through the video. It made me laugh because I'm the older sister, but my little sister (6 years) would never tolerate it, lol .... 😂
Mangosteen is so good. I tried it in Thailand not knowing what it was and instantly fell in love
One of the best fruits ever!!!
Yeah mamgosten is really good but I cant eat the part with the seed because zhe flesh you cant like bitw of and then its just do disgusting for me
@@uyenninh haha, it's been a decade and I still remember how good it was. That and the seafood 😋
I discovered them in Malaysia and bought bags of them 😋 them and Rambutan 🤪
@gigi5537 Oh! Those are super tasty as well!
I love your sister’s appearance in the video. Your interaction with each other is so sweet to see.
Her big sister is hilarious, always butting in to correct her and treat her like the little kid still, even when she is wrong! As the youngest in my family, with three older sisters, it is very relatable!
@@aartadventure😂😂😂 she wasn’t always wrong.
Is that sister single? I can see you look at her with family love. If my sisters, this would be a war movie.
@@JW-hf9evUyen said she has a brother-in-law in her previous Hanoi food tour, so I guess her sis is married
Real bro
I think I can explain the apple thing: in Old English apple was just a generic word for fruit, then later on it changed to only mean one specific fruit. This is also where the name pineapple comes from - it's a fruit that looks a bit like a pinecone.
I think the only one of these that we can easily get in the UK is the passionfruit. Dragonfruits are sometimes available, but they're tiny compared to yours!
Tamarind is also available, but only as a paste. I think I've only ever seen guava as an ingredient in say a drink.
The rest of them you may be able to find at specialty shops, but not in the normal supermarkets.
I always wondered why in Genesis, the apple was THE forbidden fruit. But based on that explanation, it wasn't. All fruit was forbidden!
In parts of Germany, we even call potates 'Erdäpfel' - earth apples 😅
@@raraavis7782in the UK, some people call horse poo ‘horse apples’ 😂
@raraavis7782 I love that cause in French potato is pomme de terre. Translated directly to apple of the earth, so I like to call them dirt apples in English.
@@AlyssHarte The same in German: Pferdeäpfel.
I'm from Bolivia and it made me so happy to see how even across continents you grew up with many of the same fruits as I did that is so cool! sending love to you Uyen!
One thing I love about learning about other cultures is finding out how similar people are everywhere.
You ought to know, if you're from Bolivia, that your ancestors and/or your neighbours ancestors or some of your ancestors, however you wanna think about it--they are responsible for some of the greatest agricultural achievements known to all of us the world over. It's no coincidence that some of these fruits and vegetables are grown in Vietnam. They made it there via the Spanish conquistadors. Capsicum/Bell peppers/Chili peppers, Potato, Pineapple, Peanuts, Tomato, Guava, Papaya, Passion Fruit, and the list goes on. And of course the Earth gives us those bounties, but I often find myself with a profound sense of longing to thank the people of South America. And want them to know how the fruits and vegetables they picked with their hands became popular all over the world.
Fruit fact: In Vietnam, there is a folk story about the "Vú sữa" (Star apple): There was a son who's very naughty and don't care for his mother at all. So when she was ill, he wasn't there for her. Later she passed a way, the boy couldn't find his mother for food (to eat) so he run around crying. After sometime, he realized how wrong he was for being a naughty-boy, which costed his mother's live. The corpse of the mother however, became a tree, which is the Star Apple tree. It produces juices just like a mother's breast milk, which reminded the boy about his mom. Then we would call it "Vú sữa" - breast milk !
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we have a version of this story in America! it’s called The Giving Tree.
You are really good at describing the taste and texture! Looks delicious.
@@loudchihuahuai never would have connected the giving tree to this story but you’re right, it’s super similar!!! so smart of you to think of that, so cool!
Please tell me that’s not true😓
Such a big smile as you try them! Can tell you're really happy. 🥰 Contagious smile.
Yeb having good fruits always make me happy!!!!
@@uyenninhWhat was the salt you used to dip the fruits in?
the way uyen describes the taste of each fruit is so good and so helpful because for every fruit i had tried i thought her description was very accurate, so for the fruits i haven't tried not only did i know her descriptions were probably quite accurate but it was also really helpful for imagining the taste.
Her sister helping her is so so sweet she loves and dotes on her so much 🥹🥹 she shows her care for her sister.
Wowwww, every time I see tropical fruits in supermarket,I get excited, but then I realise, that in Russia tropical fruits won’t be of great quality. But you can buy mangostins or dragonfruits in supermarket
Same here in Canada, they're so pretty but taste like cardboard :'(
one dragon fruit is $5USD in my grocery store 😭😭😭
@@laurag502Prices for dragon fruit range from 2.90-4.50 CAD here in Canada. And it tastes like nothing. No aroma and no taste.
@@vaska1999, that’s about how much they are where I’m from, never paid $5. And, I agree they are nothing to write home about 😝
ооо кто-то смотрит Уен в РФ!!
I love these traveling videos. They really suit you. You don’t try to make things fancy or hype up the place. Just your pure experience and commentaries. I love how wholesome it is. Looking forward to more of your long videos.
I live in Scotland and the most tropical fruit we have, is a gala apple 😑 Btw you are looking amazing, I think a trip home did you the world of good 🫶🏻❤
I'm sure I saw a mango in Lidl last week. That's super exotic xD
A gala apple lol.... ngl even here in Florida I'm super blessed with avocado, loquat and seriously sour grapefruit trees! ❤
I saw dragonfruit in Stirling tescos x
@@pinkprincess13x I did see dragon fruit in Edinburgh Asda for few weeks and then nada, it’s just gone! 😕
Same in Newcastle I got some passion fruit once is marksies
Omg it's so exciting to see how many exotic fruits exists I didn't taste yet. Thanks for sharing!
Wow. Each video of you show us, I am so jealous of all the fresh produce just growing everywhere all the time because it's warm always. My Canadian heart cries. 😅❤
Mine, too! 🇨🇦
Same. But at least it’s only a few months until saskatoon berry season!
@@vindelanda Unfortunately, I might be the only prairie-raised Canadian who dislikes Saskatoon berries.
But don't forget that strwaberries can't grow if it's too hot. I really would miss them in tropical countries...
@@KiryubelleKazuma You can get strawberries in Da Lat, Vietnam. "Mike & Ashley" went there last year and said the strawberries were the best they ever tasted.
Had Custard Apple in Australia for the first time - I was 16 and outside of Europe for the first time in my life. It broke my mind, it was so incredibly delicious. I've been craving it ever since and slowly but surely, they've been popping up here in Europe too.
I absolutely love them, too. Try the breast milk fruit and the mangosteen as those are also great.
Custard apples are one of my favourite fruits. Here in India, my aunt has a few custard apple trees in her garden and she brings lots of fruits when she comes to visit!
I am from Jamaica and almost all of these fruits were common in my childhood. You have inspired me to go back to my home community for some good quality fruits directly from the trees. It's so crazy that two countries so far apart could be so similar. (Also, that red bell fruit looks so much like our otaheite apple from the outside but ours have a large seed).
I love this! I grew up eating just really basic fruits and vegetables, so now that I'm an adult I love to go to the local farmers markets Asian grocery stores and try all the fruits and veg I've never had before. Videos like this help me understand the right way to eat all those new foods and also help me grow the list of foods that I want to try.
I can feel the pain of all my tropical peers leaving abroad in a cold weather country. Berries are great, but tropical fruits (and other foods in general) take the crown 👑
I love all the videos that you are making in Vietnam. It's great to learn about your home, family, food, culture, etc. I look forward to more videos in the future!
I'm from Kerala- India,now living in Melbourne Australia,We get most tropical fruits here thanks to Queensland has a tropical climate..My favorites are Jack fruit, Custard apple, Mangosteen, Mango..
I’m in Melbourne too. I love that we can grow cooler climate fruit like apples, cherries, pears, and berries, and also Mediterranean fruit like peaches, apricots, kiwi fruit, oranges and lemons, passionfruit, grapes,and then we also easily get good fresh tropical mangos, lychees, bananas etc. We are in a very fortunate place!
As a Trinidadian, the fact that we also have some of these fruits is so interesting to me! We make sauce with tamarind. We call the custard apple “soursop” and make juice with it!
They're all tropical fruits, found not just in Asia and Australia, but also in the Caribbean.
We call it Soursop in Nigeria, West Africa too.
They may look the same but soursop and custard apple are two different fruit. First of all soursop is sour, and custard apple is totally sweet
@pennywang6461 Yes, soursop is different to custard apple. Still delicious. I love both
Your passion for food is such a beautiful thing to behold ~ it is PURE JOY and always a highlight of my day to watch!! Thank you for sharing!
Uyen, just to let you know that passion fruit is bitter when the outer shell is "soft"...it tends to be sweeter when the shell is more "rugged"...usually the more rugged, the better!
I would say ...the passion fruit is bitter when the skin is smooth like a baby's bottom and it is sweet when the skin looks like his old granny's face😀😂
And it needs to shake like a rattle! And if you use scissors to carefully cut the skin, you can reserve the juice better! 😂
Yeah, seeing the juice on the plate made me sad, I would have licked it up 😂
Here passionfruit are so expensive that every drop is precious
@justicedinosaur7302 This is why I always cut it on a plate, so that I can lick the juice off the plate. Hers was definitely to green, the rind still had green hues in places.
Sapodilla also known as 'Chiku' in Singapore and Malaysia. Back in the day, we'll bury it in the rice container for it to mature and to prevent insects from infesting it. Raw chikus will have sap within and it's hard and inedible - must wait until the sweet scent is present and fruit is very soft to the touch before it can be eaten. Very yummy caramel sugar-like taste for the ripe ones :)
It's called Chiku in India too. Though I've seen people often eat it with the skin there.
Tamarind is my favourite!! I love how tart and sweet it is. Very popular in Mexican culture. Also, those guava are enormous! The ones where I live are tiny, maybe a quarter of that size!
Tamarind jarritos is the best
You have done the world a great service with this video! Now I’m encouraged to buy fresh tropical fruit because you’ve shown me how to eat it!
You're a good teacher, thanks for sharing with us!
I appreciate you teaching us about these different fruits.
One of my favorite content creator ♥️ love you so much ✨♥️ always will support you.
🥹🥹 thank you! I appreciate it a lot
Yess, she is my favorite 🩷🩷
As an absolute fruit lover, I also really love this video!!
Tamarind is called "tetul" in bengali... And in Bangladesh, we have the sour tamarind... But my uncle brought sweet tamarind from Thailand and we were blown out after eating that... It was sooo tasty..
And sapodilla is called "sofeda" here...I hate it's meaty, grainy texture..but my mom likes it
Yep. Eating sapodilla is like eating sweet sand. Sweet but still sand
Yes..and that's what I hate the most😅@@oo8962
You should try it as a smoothie! With cold/frozen milk and sugar. It’s good.
I am loving all of these food videos! I can see the joy you get when you are able to eat the foods you grew up with but do not have now in Germany.
Some of these (like dragonfruit, passionfruit, custard apple, mangosteen etc.) you can actually sometimes find in German supermarktes, like Kaufland, Rewe, Edeka etc. but theyre probably not as tasty as from the source 😊 Some have different names here though, if youre ever looking for them, the custard apple is called Cherimoya for example 😊
You can get real good tropical fruit delivered though in germany. Jurassic fruit gets them right from the source and spoiled me for supermarkets
Hab noch nie Mangosteene in irgend nem Supermarkt gesehen außerhalb von Asiamärkten. Drachenfrucht gibt es auch nur die, die innen weiß sind, die sind überteuert und schmecken nach Wasser. Ne Maracuja kriegst du auch easy beim Rewe und teilweise gefroeren als Püree, das stimmt, aber für den Inhalt auch ziemlich teuer.
We get them in Canadian supermarkets, but they all mostly taste of nothing and have no to little aroma. 😢
@@KiryubelleKazuma Ist vermutlich auch Geschäfts- bzw. Regionen-abhängig, aber bei uns gibt es Mangostane tatsächlich ab und zu im Kaufland, ebenso die Drachenfrucht mit weiß aber auch rot drinnen, ich hab sie auf jeden Fall dort schon gekauft. Auch andere exotische Früchte wie Sternenfrüchte, Papayas etc. hab ich da schon gefunden.
Ich würde so ein schlechtes Gewissen haben, dieses Flugobst zu kaufen. 😢
Delicious in Dungeon und dann ein Video über exotische Früchte - beste Donnerstag seit langen. Thanks Uyen
I LOVE your videos! Absolutely very creative & funny & real! Thanks for sharing! Keep up the content & many many blessings to you & ALL your loved ones!!! You ROCK!!!
Uyen love your personality , we need more of this in Germany ❤️
I loved this video! Now I have a bigger list of foods I want to try. 😊
The passion fruit one. In our country(philippines) or maybe just part of our country. We open passion fruit at the top so it looks like a bowl. Then we put salt and bit of vinegar or you can just put salt to balance the sourness. ITS VERY GOOD
Ripe sapodilla tastes best in a milk shake with rose flavour. Back home in India we used to order a rose chikoo milkshake. Hope ur travels take u to India in summer. You must try litchi from Muzzafarpur and Alphonso mangoes from Konkan. Chart topping fruits taste wise.
In Jamaica we just squeeze them open we don't peel them and eat them, I must try the milkshake though... thank u for the idea .
Have a great day
Yes... in kerala too...we call it chikoo shake. Frozen milk and sapodilla. We cam skip sugar too.
@@missphatp that probably means you have access to fresh ripened sweet fruit. In Indian cities semi ripe fruit is available in the stores and they are a little hard to squeeze. We use knife to peel and then extract the pulp. ua-cam.com/video/XkpemHI_kL8/v-deo.html I really miss village life in India..no plastic , all organic food plucked right from the non-genetic engineered plant/trees. I think those days are lost for ever..
@@ayshabinthnoor 100% no sugar needed for ripe fruit.. Kerela reminds me of tender coconut. Here while eating melo melo coconut desert I dream of tender coconut malai I had in Kerela. Its been almost 2 decades that I visited there..and yet vividity of that taste lingers with me to the present day. Enjoy Kerela - Indeed god's own country.
I love your videos! Such a lovely change from the world craziness. You are a delightful woman.
This is how I am when I visit India, love the fruits. Yoy guys have lots of different varieties 😊
Yaassssss! A new video! Thank you!
Passion fruit is amazing! In Hawaii we have our own variant called Lilikoi. It has yellow skin and is very sweet! Hardly sour at all! I love Lilikoi, but I like the sourness of regular Passion fruit too!
I love lillikoi and lychee! Fruits in Hawai'i are so good!
Guava wait for it to ripe and then try. It even gives out a nice aroma and sweetish. In India we also get guava varieties that are pink inside
It's so funny how you like the smell of the guava! My family came from a northern country to a very warm one when I was about 7, and I remember how pungent the smell of a guava was for us. My grandpa used to say it smelled like strawberries mixed with cow droppings😅
We got used to the smell over the years though
I'm not Vietnamese but in the US I buy dragon fruit and mix it with a little bit of condensed milk and rice. The really rural farming states probably won't have it, but the major states do in corporate grocery stores. Tamarind and mangosteen are around sometimes, but I haven't bought them in stores yet. I do love mangosteen snack drinks though
A lot of those--dragon fruit, cherimoya, guava, passion fruit--are native to Mexico, Central, and South America. So luckily I can get those in my local grocery store and I am happy they are getting the love they deserve. ❤️
Thank you for sharing, as others have said. What we see in grocery stores don't compare to what you are blessed with, anything we get is smaller or totally not available and alot are not good, but we dont realize til bringing home and trying. Its great seeing what things should look like, and you describing taste and texture is great, You do make interesting and funny, lovely videos. :D been watching you and your family for a year, Again thank you and God bless
Depending on when the English name for the fruit was made, "apple" might have meant "fruit" instead of the specific fruit that we now mean when we say apple. Up until the 1600s, apple was the generic word for fruit. Banana's were called appel of paradis "apple of paradise." Dates were called fingeræppla "finger apples." So "custard apple" might be "custard fruit," and all the apple translations to English might just be "fruit."
Thank you very much for presenting and testing all the fruits! Sooo interesting, that you eat some of them with salt!!
I'm Hispanic and A lot of the fruits you ate I actually tried! and have different names in Spanish, and ways I ate it.
Passion Fruit= Maracuyá *We use Passion Fruit to make a Drink out of it!
Custard Apple= Guanábana *I miss this fruit
Guava= Guayaba *We use the leaves for a tea!
Tamarind= Tamarindo *We use tamarind for many drinks and desert
The fruits look delicious! Thank you for making such interesting and fun videos about your Vietnamese culture/heritage. I always learn something new and also enjoy watching you interact with your family 😊
I had the red bell fruit in Hawaii, I think it is also called a rose apple. It wasn’t super flavorful but I loved the texture! I tried lots of these fruits there and it was amazing.
Nice, i look for that next time i visit hawaii
Here in California we would also call it rose apple. Not highly flavorful, but crispy and very refreshing.
It’s also called water apple…
Try passion fruit with salt😊 it taste good. We usually cut the top part only enough to make a hole for a teaspoon to fit to mix a pinch or two of salt. Then we drink it with a straw 😋.
~from your friendly neighbour 🇵🇭
I once made jam from passion fruits and peaches, it was soooo delicious with icecream :)
In Malaysia, the bell apple or water apple or rose apple are smaller and more oval rather than round. I love to eat it with a mixture of sugar and soy sauce. So it taste sweet and salty. Matches awesomely with the juicy rose apple. Yummy.
I like to eat bell fruit with sweet soy sauce, sometimes adding some small chilli. It’s very refreshing to eat that way. My family calls it water pear in Mandarin.
I had custard apple while living in Brazil nearly 10 years ago, and I haven't been able to figure out the English name until your video! Thank you for helping me out! It is such a sweet, delicious fruit, and one of my favorites from my time there.
Passion fruit is my absolute favorite kind of fruit. They grow in the Azores where my father is from and he grows it here in California. You can’t find them in the grocery store. I love how sour they are they don’t need sugar to me
I love when you do these food videos!! So engaging and lovely to see how much fun youre having 💕💕
In the Caribbean (specifically St. Vincent) we call custard apple sugar apple and we don't cut it we just break it in half and eat it one seed at a time
And we call bell fruit, wax apple
I think it depends to the eating habits of the family. My hometown is 3hrs away from hers and we also just break it apart and spoon it.
Thank you for sharing! I live in Australia and a lot of these fruits are available to buy from Asian grocers, but I never knew how to pick the best ones for eating!
Hi from Australia. I love, love, love fruit just like you and we have an abundance of it here. We are seeing more and more tropical fruits thanks to the large Asian communities that have come here and now your video has inspired me to go and try more. Frustratingly, most of the Asian traders still only use asian signage so I am never sure what to buy or how to eat it.
I was really fascinated by your use of salt with fruit!! I would never think of spoiling such beautiful flavours by adding salt, but maybe now I'll experiment a bit.
I was also really surprised at your reaction to passionfruit. It is almost a staple fruit here (so easy to grow - NO snakes in Melb gardens, and a must with pavlova) but we don't eat it until the outside starts to get dried and wrinkled. The passionfruit you ate does not look ripe enough to me.
Off to do some fruit shopping now!
Mango is very commonly eaten with salt and a chile lime seasoning powder called tajin here in the Americas. The best way I’ve found to recreate it in Australia is to get a very mild red chili pepper powder (guajillo or some other mild Mexican chile) and mix it 1:1 with sea salt. Squirt fresh lime juice on the mango, dip the chili salt powder into the lime, and eat.
Watermelon is also commonly eaten sprinkled with salt - just lightly. It will make the flavor POP! (Or you can shred basil and feta cheese into cubed watermelon, lightly salt the entire thing, and have a delicious salad.)
@@khills Well, that's food for thought. It's certainly interesting learning about food and other cultures. My grandmother always made tomato sandwiches with salt and pepper and a small pinch of sugar.
@@karencramer6491 One of mine made that as well!
Like those comments above said, try unripe mango with salt. Or sour/green apples. Salt makes sourness sweet remember that😊
Thank you for sharing with us, a joy as always😊
Hi from Colombia
We have many of those fruits
I confirm
They are tasty
These fruit all look so good! Also, very interesting how there's all these different ways to eat them.
the red bellfruit is called Mận An Phước which is specialty of a province in the West of Vietnam. This kind of bellfruit is sweeter and jucier than others
South and South East Asis are so blessed to have such lovely variety of fruits. Most of these are in India as well and in a similar fashion, they can be made into a 'fruit chaat' with rock salt, milder chilli powder and such... Mango (The KING of fruits) was missing though... Ha...
Please tell your sister thanks for the help.. love seeing your relationship 😅😅 Not very different from other siblings ❤ .. in all honesty, i like her.. hope to see her in the future also
Thank you for sharing so many foods from your country with us! I love the ones I have tried but I haven’t tried them all. Hopefully one day if I am lucky!
4:43 "Apple" etymologically used to refer to any fruit in general, not just what we call an apple today. Same goes for german "Apfel"; that's why in some german dialects the name for potato is still "Erdapfel" (literally: Earth-Apple).
Thank you so much!! In South Africa we have guava, and when ripe it is yellowy on the outside and pink inside. You can smell it from afar (very delicious). It's soft and you break it and eat it all, my favourite fruit ever (winter fruit in Cape Town), and I miss it so much after 20 years in Europe and eating it only once a year on holiday in SA. I was so happy to find it on Tenerife once😂. I was therefor so surprised to see the hard, green guava here!!
I've had plenty of custard apples, tamarinds, mangosteen (my absolute favourite!), passionfruit (and I would NEVER add sugar to one apart from passionfruit icing on a cake), dragonfruit - which I think looks prettier than it tastes, guava (I had a cherry guava tree once and they were delicious). We used to live in far north Queensland, Australia, so there is an abundance of tropical fruit up there. And mangoes to die for.
if anyone sees this and is curious about the salt uyen used it's muoi cham hao hao salt (salt & chili mix) that you use to season noodles - it helps to bring out the sweet taste in a lot of bitter fruits sometimes! try it if you've never done it - for example you can also try chili powder alone with pineapple it makes it so tasty :D
Sounds similar to Tajin! Just without the lime
Now I am super curious what fruits you like when you're in Germany :D Will you make a video about fruits from German super markets? (maybe in strawberry season)
Thank you so much Uyen! I've seen some of these fruits at the Asian market where I live. Even though I'm also South East Asian, there are some fruits that I've never tried but I was always so intimidated to try. Thanks to your video, I'm going to try some of these :)
i know tamarind we use it in our country i love it we also called it imli it is so sweet and sour.
Most of those fruits are available in India too. I love guava! ❤ In India when it’s bit green and hard you can eat it with salt or salt and chilli powder mix, and when it’s ripped and soft it’s sweet fruit.
And custard apple is one of our favourite fruits too! So sweet! And papaya… yum
Almost 90% of these fruits grow in India too 👍🇮🇳
Growing up eating the few tropical fruit that my paternal Grandparents grew in my childhood home feels like such a privilege. Guavas, figs loquats and even the lemon tree. i love all those fruits now and eating them has a such a great feeling of being home. They also just taste great.
I’ve never had a good guava in my life, but guava nectar is probably my favorite juice ever. Nice to know that guavas are inconsistent, it’s not just me 😂 love the food content btw!!
A very interesting video! I loved seeing all the different fruits. In Australia we are very familiar with passionfruit. It is used in all sorts of sweet dishes, especially as a topping sprinkled on top of pavlova, a very popular dessert here.
In Iraq we also eat Tamarind as a snack and for cooking ,,and I just know its name in English which is the same as the Arabic name (Tamar Hind) which literally means Indian dates (Tamar:dates,,Hind:India) ,, I guess because we used to import it from India and it kinda looks like dates(Iraq is famous for its dates)
Yay I love your videos! It feels like travelin, with the fun of all the small exciting things about the little cool things like vietnamese fruit or german supermarkets!
It is kind of unusual when short form youtubers also make quality long videos.
I look forward to your videos. Thanks for opening up your life to us
5 segments. Mangosteen is delicious.
Wow! I love how fun and informative this was. The video seemed to fly by so fast!
Dragonfruit tastes like you washed a kiwi in a bowl of water and then drank the water instead of eating the kiwi. 😅
So dilute kiwi yeah?
In Italy we eat prickly pear. Dragonfruit is a kind of prickly pear too and they taste the same: i.e. like a watered down overripe kiwi with annoying seeds, with a serving of spines if you're unlucky.
I love dragonfruit but I kinda agree😭
careful with the yellow dragonfruit! its a natural laxative if you eat too much 😂
@@nonamepainter fair enough! its the same here ☺️
That was such a fun video! Living in Florida, I've seen some of these fruits in the grocery store but I didn't know what they were
Sooo relaxing and enjoyable video! Thank you for the explanation about different kinds of custard apples!
Sapodilla reminds me about persimmon, but they are not "relatives".
I love mangosteen, it also tastes very close to rhubarb.
I'm curious, have you tried persimmon or rhubarb and what you thing about them?
Wauw you look so happy and healthy! And how do your nails ALWAYS look so cute and pretty?!
It is so nice to see this thanks for sharing!
Esther
Dear Uyen's sister, thank you for you input into another amazing video. Your sister drops many things and this is the effect of living in a decadent German culture. You should speak to the family, and stop her from leaving and being corrupted further. In the meantime, I look forward to the channel of the smarter, more sensible sister.
I love, love,love Passion fruit! The juice with Rum and you immediately feel like you’re on a tropical 🌴 island 🏝 beach 🏖!
Just love the way her sister being there with her. ❤
Thank you i actually needed a video like this. I keep seeing those exotic fruits but i didn't dare try them cause i didn't know how to eat them
Bell fruit is one of my favorites, I'm really sad I can't find it here in the US. You're right that the flavor isn't the most intense, but it has a really unique texture, and the crisp juiciness is really refreshing. It's one of the best snacking fruits out there, imo.
We just got Sapodilla in mail from Florida.
I always forget how good they are.
Gives me energetic experience power boost every time I eat one.
In Malaysia & Taiwan. We love to dip our Bell Fruits in sour plum powder to enhance the flavour of fruit. We use plum powder to eat every fruit that taste mild, like Guava, pears, dragon fruits etc..and it would make any mild fruit tastes so good! 😊
I both loved this video so much with fruits and was appalled at the waving the knife around/hand talking/cutting in the air! I was like woman you need some kitchen safety classes! I was worried lol