Hey, so that's Manila, and I've got another fruit. This one is really exciting for me
because it is an "Artocarpus". Which is a, ah...
I like these fruits because it's just like they're big, and for me like eating just a bunch of tons of like little
berries all the time and like little teeny fruits
isn't super exciting. When you get something that looks like this
then, I don't know, I get- I get a little perked up when I see stuff like this. This is related to
the Jackfruit, and
the Breadfruit, and
the Cempedak, which are all fruits I've reviewed before, and what this is, is called a Marang,
Or maybe it's 'meringue'. I don't know. As you see on the outside. It's a little bit different than the jackfruit or the cempedak
just because it's covered with all these like little hairs like that. Uhh it's just kinda interesting that they-
they move around pretty easily and you can... when it's ripe you actually squeeze it. It's soft, and
And uh, normally people what they do is, they wait for it to get like super ripe like this, and
you just rip it apart with your hands. When it's a little bit like
less ripe than this then you use a knife, and you can twist it open
I bought this from a vendor here who ripped me off a little bit. She charged me
two dollars a kilogram.
Which is actually pretty high. It should be about a dollar. It's very popular here in the Philippines. It also grows in
East Malaysia like Borneo, but I've never seen it before. It's, I think, is very common for these areas,
but other parts of the world you just don't get it. The smell is really funky,
But different than durian. Like durian has that kind of like rotting corpse smell. This has got ...
It's not as bad as this, but a little bit like
Gasoline. I had it like in my... in a locker up at the hostel
I'm staying at, and the entire hostel started smelling like gasoline.
It smells a little bit also like my grandmother's kitchen because she used to like cook
like meat like all the time and like fried in oil and the oil would get like
into the walls, and it would always like have like the stale oil kind of smell. So, I'm gonna tear this thing open and
I don't know how to do it. I think I'm just going to do it with my bare hands...see how easy this is.
Very easy. Just rips apart.
Right in my hands like that.
Inside there's these little white
globs of flesh. These are very soft,
and about the size of, I don't know, like a cocktail onion. Kind of looks like one too.
It's pretty good. The texture is kind of gross. It's a little slimy,
but
it's pretty nice actually.
The seed inside is actually white.
It looks a little bit like a peanut, and you can actually like roast or boil these and eat the seeds as well.
Tastes like a little bit like a fruit salad. You know, like lots of like teeny little flavors in there.
It's got like a flavor kind of like
a pear in syrup, but also like jackfruit and also like, um...
Little cempedak,
and also like
also um...like banana.
Maybe a little bit like pineapple.
It's really complicated. You know, It's got like a little more depth to it than a jackfruit, but it's also like
fairly easy to take. It's not like, like doesn't like hit you over the head the way like a cempedak or
Durian does. Durians are not related to this, but they're often like classed together because they're both kind of like funky...
Funky smelling and looking.
There is a lot of like stuff you throw out. Like look at that. That's the core. The core is the size of like a
mango. It's like a giant core to it. Lots of...
All this stuff is like really thick and heavy. So when you buy this thing you're only getting actually a small amount of fruit.
A relatively small amount of fruit compared to the to the size. I wasn't sure I'd be able to eat this whole thing,
but because it's like
one and a half kilos
basically just for the one fruit, but really you're eating only
maybe a half. Not even like a half kilo of fruit when you eat the thing, but as I'm eating it like I keep on
you know, trying to pick up on the flavor, and like I said like
like a pear in syrup.
Like that, that's kind of like
what is probably the strongest flavor for me as I'm eating like this definitely tastes like
pears that you'd get like in a fruit cup. It's kind of got like that kind of flavor to it, but
more mature, you know. It's like a fruit cup for adults. It's got like all that like that pear kind of taste, but also
like complexity on it like the bananas,
the pineapple flavor, the cempedak flavor, the jackfruit flavor.
Like all kinda like mixed into one. So yeah that is
pretty freaking amazing, so if you can track one of these down, get it. If not,
I hope you enjoyed watching me eat it. Alright, thanks a lot