When we were in Kauai, we happened upon some wonderful fruit called longan. The best way to describe it is sort of a mix between a grape and a plum. It comes in bunches on a branch, and the fruit is wrapped in a tough outer skin. You have to break through the skin to get to the yumminess inside.
We would eat them all the time, and I've really missed them since we left. Anyways, yesterday while shopping at Mayfair market, we happened upon something that looked very similar, but it was called limoncillo quenepas. Thinking we struck gold, I bought a pretty big package, but for only $2.
I washed the outer skin, bit through, and was left with a funk in my mouth that really didn't go away for several minutes. It was pretty sour, and instead of a translucent looking fruit, it was kind of a peachy color. But, alas, not the hoped for longan.
So, now we're left with a huge bowlful of crappy fruit. Maybe the squirrels will eat them?
Oh, Mark and Tina, lucky lucky you, apparently, the longan grow mostly in China. You should see if you can find it, and thank us later.
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Ha - it's like you never listened to us tell our China stories. They are just one of the many fruits that we love over here, just last week we bought a bag of some of the really big ones.
What do you mean washed and then bit through the outer skin? You're supposed to peel the skin off. What you're doing is the equivalent of biting through the orange peel to get to the yumminess inside...
Of course we never listen to you, well we do, but we forget... you have a lot of stories.
So, no, we don't eat the skin, but the laziness that is us doesn't have time to actually peel the fruit to get inside. A bite to crack the peel is much faster. I'm surprised you didn't realize this.
If they're at the right ripeness they fall apart with a quick pinch... You must have been eating old ones - imagine now how good the fresh ones must taste.
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