Well, hello everybody. I am in Beijing, China right now and
It's really interesting to be back because I've not been here in
8 years- actually over 8 years.
I went to an acrobatic school here way back in the day. I was interested in fruit back then but I never
went to this place. I went- it's called- I'm actually looking at it now-
Sanyuanli Market, and it's
Awesome. I'm in my element there. It's just a ton of little vendors selling exotic fruit and strange stuff.
It seems kind of like they're influenced by Japan though, where a lot of this fruit is high-end luxury fruit,
but a little bit cheaper. It's meant to be given as like a gift maybe,
but because it's China where haggling is kind of like the way things go, you can actually get some decent
prices on this stuff, or you can get ripped off. Me?
I think I got ripped off, but I still found some cool things. Now
this is probably the biggest thing that, heh, seemed a little scammy to me, but kind of cool.
Cherries, but as you can see, these are very special
heart-shaped cherries.
Kind of cute, right? Maybe we can get a better angle
You can see like that's very much like a little heart, and they're all like this, all shaped like this.
I don't know if these are grown this way or if they're used- if they use molds or something.
I think they probably use molds, but even then that'd be a pretty painstaking thing to do.
So these were very, very expensive. These were two hundred and twenty
yuan for a kilo, which is very high.
Most things in there are like twenty, and this was like a hundred and twenty
a kilo, so a little bit more expensive. At the first place
I went to they said they wanted a dollar fifty for just this one, but I handled around. I went to a few places
and I managed to get these two for about a dollar fifty, heh.
Dollar fifty for two cherries. Hrrmm. Yeah. You know, I've spent more money on less, but yeah, it's still kind of a surprise.
I'm gonna try the red one first. I'm curious if these actually taste any different whatsoever,
or if they're just, you know, more of a novelty thing.
It's good.
Very juicy, and they're very big,
But- very sweet. Let's say like a level one to ten, these are maybe like...
that ones like a six. They're pretty high,
but lacks flavor.
It tastes like a regular cherry.
Maybe a little blander then the cherries that you can get like at a supermarket in the US, so...
yeah not...
super amazing or anything. Tastes like a normal cherry, but it's cute looking. It's a little heart shape.
Yeah, I totally got ripped off, didn't I? This one is
the more expensive one. Two hundred and twenty a kilo. So let's try this one.
I should probably show the inside, right? Not super interesting. They're just like- look like a regular cherry.
Tastes about the same, maybe a little milder, because it doesn't have as much, you know, coloring to it.
A little less sweet, a little less flavor, twice the price. I think you're just paying for the aesthetic on that one. It's-
You know the coloring on it's very pretty. They're very, very beautiful.
The flavor though...
it's okay. It tastes like a regular cherry. Actually that white one is
a little...
subpar. There's a little like bonus flavor in there that...
it's a little like... I don't know. Paper?
Something 'non fruit' in there.
Yeah, a little like paper kind of flavor. The red one is better- it's better and it's cheaper, but neither of them are that good.
So this is definitely one that I think would be really great to,
you know, have on a fruit platter or something or give as a gift
just for like the novelty, but not worth the price like whatsoever. Like that's very, very expensive for what it is, but...
yeah, I think that's about it about heart-shaped cherries.
So I hope you enjoyed that. Just kind of shows like, some of like the strange...
types of fruits that you can get in China.
They've got a lot of things like that here. Like very- like oddly shaped, pretty looking fruits that you know
sometimes looks really cool, but doesn't taste so great.
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