Well, hello everybody so we've exchanged cars beeping for
the sounds of the hostel.
That's what we're at right now. I'm in Delhi. This is my last day here.
I'm about to head back and there was something I wanted to do while I was here,
but I was just kind of a little clueless about it, and that's MANGOES!
Because India is known for its mangoes. People are serious about their mangoes here.
My problem is that I've been going to all these markets and seeing mangoes EVERYWHERE.
I just don't know which ones are which.
Here in Delhi I went to a very very high-end, expensive market's food hall.
The food hall was like... they had a crazy selection of fruit.
They had Japanese cantaloupes, snake fruit, guavas,
longans, they had loquats, they had all sorts of great stuff... all things I've had before.
What was nice, they had labels on everything.
So I think if I walked into a market I wouldn't be able to tell what these were.
This, although was very expensive, gave me a chance to figure it out.
So I bought all these mangoes for like eight bucks, which for India is a lot of money.
So the first mango I'm going to talk about is this one here. This is a pairi mango.
It's got a really nice blush to it and
it's relatively small.
So here is the inside.
It's got a nice orange color. Nice and bright.
Looks like it's got some... you can even see on the knife there... It's got some fibrousness to it, but not too bad.
That's pretty.
(muffled slurping of mango goodness)
That's really good.
The initial taste, it's just like...
...really nice strong mango flavor. It feels like it's got something extra to it.
It tastes very coco-nutty, but not just like straight-up coconut but
more like coconut water. You know, not so creamy tasting, but nutty. It's got quite a lot of sweetness to it.
Level 1 to 10 where 10 is a sugar cube was probably
7 or an 8. Let's say well the tartness is like an orange. It also has like a little bit of like...
Like a spiciness to it... like incense or something. Next I want to talk about
the Alphonso mango
India is known for them
So I feel like I would be doing India a disservice not to talk about Alphonso mango here
Similar color to the pairi mango. Here's the pairi mango. Here's the Alphonso.
cuts through very easily
Maybe like similar fibrousness as that other one.
Good
Mmm, that's really good. It's got like a tartness to it a
little higher maybe like a
seven out of ten on sourness.
Sweetness is
Quite high but maybe not as high as the pairi. This is maybe more like
6. it's a little funky maybe a little bit like the kuini mango.
Which I had in Borneo. Like almost like a little bit of a durian kind of funk to it.
tart, sweet,
little funky, very, very strong
Mango taste. This tastes like mango candy. It's like very very
Quintessentially mango-y. This is a totapuri, the biggest mango overall that I have here.
It's got very like pointy end right here or attached at the stem and
a little bit of a
We'll get the other hand too. It's got an interesting shape to it. So here's the inside. You see that this one is more yellow.
You can see the pairi mango here, how orange that is. This is not nearly as orange. It cuts rather smoothly; not as smoothly though.
That little sound effect just worked out so nicely it's like magic.
This one's mild, no tartness.
Whatsoever. I'd say zero or one out of 10. Not super sweet either. This one is maybe like, um,
Yeah
Three. It might get better as it ages or something,
but this seems like a better mango to have with something on it
I know a lot of people here like
putting I like salt and chili and stuff on their mangos, and this would maybe be a good
mango for that.
The flavor is not so much,
but the
texture is really nice. It feels like eating mango pudding.
It's very soft, but like has very little fiber to it.
So bite and just kind of let it melt in your mouth on its own.
Not my favorite.
This one here is the safeda and
This one's kind of wonky looking it was almost like you took a mango and crushed it.
But yeah, it's just kind of like
flat. Wide and flat.
The coloring on this is kind of interesting too. A lot of little splotches of green and yellow.
Cuts pretty smoothly...
Whoa! Okay... Here's a surprise.
Look at that.
Nice. It's a little hard to tell in the the light in here, but it's like
It's like peachy. But it is a very odd color for mango.
Also completely different! Never had a mango like this.
It's like, tart... but I mean almost like a citrusy way.
Like lemony or something
I say this is more like an 8
out of 10. It's got like a little bit of like a
piney taste to it, like the Tommy Atkins would have but not as strong. A little bit like a pepper taste.
It's almost like a little bit melon-y.
Melon-y, spicy,
piney,
sour,
not super sweet, maybe like a 3, but it doesn't have a lot of flavor to it.
It's got like a little bit of that coconut kind of flavor, but more like coconut cream and less like coconut water like that
first one I had. I would eat this like if I wanted
Like a grapefruit, or an orange or something. I wouldn't eat this one if I wanted a mango. It's too different.
It doesn't have a mango-ish taste in there, like what you would expect from a mango.
But it's quite low and all the other flavors are kind like overpowering it.
This is the hamam. Actually quite bright like a canary yellow. It looks almost like a lemon color
SO MANY MANGOES! Oh my gosh!
Yeah, I think that mangoes have a lot of B vitamins in them, so I might be like up all night now
So... BAM! Check that out! It's white inside and
the smell on this is really strange. It's getting up there like the kuini mango kind of funkiness which tasted like
Mangoes and scrambled eggs. This one does not separate so easily from the skin
That's interesting, it kind of like fell apart when I tried taking it off, huh?
What is that?!?!
This is?!? I get... I feel weird even calling this a mango. It tastes like honeydew and
cantaloupes and
muscat grapes this is like
An extremely
musky
tasting
Mango, this is a sweetest out of all these mangoes; possibly the sweetest mango I've ever had. Maybe on par with
the one I had Japan which was like candy.
In terms of sugar cube? This is like a 9, not sour.
It almost makes me want to say it's sour just because it's very strong like the flavor and it's strong and it's not mango.
It's not sourness.
It's musk. It's like a
little
Intense just because of how sweet and how strong it is.
But it's really really tasty and very very unique. This is one of the more unique mangoes
I've had... and I've had some weird ones! It feels like a different...
You know people are like, oh, there's sour and there's sweet,
There's bitter, there's umami, you know, like there's also something else... and that is triggered with this one.
There is like that musk taste. It doesn't really relate to any of those other things.
It's like a very unique kind of sensation when you eat it and
This one is like triggering it like crazy. You know you get that a little bit from melons
But I don't especially like melons. I think a lot of people don't. I do like this. This is really really good.
This is kind of like I don't know. It's kind of showing me like what can be good about a melon
One winner I think would be the hamam.
Second I would go with the pairi. I think that was pretty good.
After that, I would go with the Alphonso just because got like a lot of flavor. Well sourness...
A lot of mango-ness to it. Like the funk. I like that about it. So that'll be number three.
Next I would go with the sefeda. A little tart, a little
interesting.
The kind of peachy color to it. I like and my least favorite be the totapuri. I mean it's still pretty good...
It just it's weak. There's not a lot going on there. Not a single bad one here.
These are all really really tasty. Mangoes in India are something you've got to try
If you go to India.
Everyone is so uniquely different than another
that you can eat like one and another and they'll taste like two completely different fruits.
It was just like right here. If you hand these to somebody I don't think they would necessarily know
that they were mangoes, just because of how different they are.
and that's really saying something. I've had so many different varieties of mangoes so far and this is couldn't
goes to show just like how
Different one could be from another and that's pretty amazing.
So if you're in another country and you see a mango you've never had that one before it looks a little different than ones that
You have at home pick it up because it's going to be probably different than what you're expecting.
I think this is it for my trip to India and I hope you've enjoyed everything I found here and now...
I'm going back home.
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