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That there is Bangkok. And, uhh...
I'm in my hostel right now and I'm going to do some fruit reviews that uh...
I'm gonna have to keep it kind of quick.
I've just been finding a lot here and I don't have much time to review it
because i'm having such a busy schedule, but I want to, um...
at least do what I can, just mind the noise in the background,
mind the fact that this is not gonna be like a lot of information.
Mind all of that, because these are pretty interesting.
Um, Just bare with me.
But this is uh, called a Camachile, or Camachile, I don't know how you pronounce it.
But it is, uh, very interesting, it's got a lot of really interesting names.
It uh... You can see it kinda looks like a tamarind pod a little bit.
It actually has the name, a "Manila Tamarind" even though it's not related tamarind.
It also has um, "monkey pod" is another name for it.
Um, "monkey earrings"
"Devil's Necklace"
And, uh, "black bead" and "madres thorn".
It's uh, grown throughout Southeast Asia and India.
But it's not um, it's not really sold commercially. People don't really like uh,
like farm this or anything,
[it] is something [that] is picked wild and people were selling like on the side of the road.
So they had like growing in a backyard they'll go like like foraging for it, and then people will send it, uh, sell it like on the streetside.
I actually found this as like a little, um...
An Old Lady was selling this right by a ferry terminal here.
Kinda like in the middle of nowhere. And I was just about to hop on the ferry
And she was selling this as like a little snack for the ride.
Um, so it's, so this seems pretty interesting. The way you can tell that it's ripe, is you want it to be,
split open like this.
If you have it where the seeds haven't quite opened yet
You don't want that. These are all completely ripe.
So I don't have an unripe one to show you, but if you don't see like the white peeking out of it then you don't eat it.
And I've heard that when it turns red,
The red one's have more flavor than one's that are like more white. Like that one.
But, we'll see if that's true.
I'm gonna start with a um, one of these red ones.
You can see like there's a little seed in there.
You don't wanna eat that seed.
You can either can pick it out, which is kind of a pain to do.
Or you can spit it out as you're eating it.
But you don't want to eat them, and they are, they're relatively soft. So if you bite into one of these, you can be biting into one of these seeds, which i'm not sure...
why they're not edible. They might be poisonous or something. I don't know. But you just gotta be careful when you eat it.
The lady that sold me these pods actually was selling already picked with the seeds removed too. So she'd like spent the time doing that.
And um...
she was selling like that so you don't even have to bother. But I wanted to see the pods were like. So hey! I bought them with everything intact.
Alright, so let's try it!
Hmm.
Hmm, kind of bland, actually?
Doesn't have like a lot of flavor. It's like slightly sweet
Um, it actually tastes a lot like green jujube or like a Chinese date. It doesn't have like a lot of flavor.
Looking at like the the red tinge to it you might think it might taste like a berry or something
It doesn't.
So like the flavor is kinda like, not super interesting. Here's one that's got like a little more white to it.
Yeah, a little less flavor, still a little bit sweet.
Just doesn't really taste like much. It tastes kind of like, so like agree more like a green jujubee, or like a regular jujubee.
Which if you don't know that's like, it's kind of like an apple, a little bit, like an apple.
Just without the apple Flavor, so it's kind of like a more bland apple.
It's pretty, uh, it's like alright.
It's not like really like a flavor explosion or anything, but It's like satisfying to eat it. The texture is nice.
So I can see how this would be like a good snack to have like while you're on a boat or a train or something.
Something to kinda like nibble on.
It's got like a little bit of a nutty flavor to it.
What's most interesting to me is not the flavor,
but the texture. The texture is like, it almost tastes like
It's like really like I don't know
what you'd call that. It's like dry.
It's not juicy like at all. But it's also very firm, and [like] rubbery
a little bit like eating, like a wad, like a tightly waded up piece of paper or something.
But also kinda like waxy.
I don't know too much about it. I do know that it has a lot of protein in it. Like 30 percent of it is protein.
So for me, as a vegetarian here, and I can't eat like anything in Thailand.
Because like most places, like morning noon and night, people just eat like meat.
This is probably like a handy thing for me to have.
Because, I'm gonna be like protein deficient if I don't have like a little bit more protein.
So i'm gonna like, eat these. Eat like a whole bunch of these if I can.
It's pretty good. Um, it's a nice thing to eat. It's not bad at all.
So if you come across this, check it out
And that's um, all I have to say about it! Thanks!