Ah! Ooh!
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Oh, comment!
Have you ever heard of and tried ice cream bean fruit?
(sighs)
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Oh, God no!
Okay, have you ever tried ice cream bean?
Try also ice cream bean.
Don't know if you've had that one already.
Ice cream bean fruit is delicious.
I wish you could also try ice cream bean.
Have you done ice cream bean?
Have you ever tried ice cream bean fruit?
I'm suprised you haven't had ice cream bean fruit before.
Okay!
Oh, wait!
Hey,
no parties!
(party music)
So, fine! I'm here. I'm in Bolivia.
And... I got one!
(laughs)
And... yeah.
It look a lot of time hunting around before I found one of these.
The problem, is that I've been going to Asia
like every year I've been making this series.
I've been all around South East Asia and I've been finding fruit there.
This is not available there.
So, when people are asking me like why I haven't reviewed this,
that's why!
Because you can't really get it where
I've been going.
I don't know where the hype about this
thing is coming from.
And why so many people have mentioned this fruit to me.
But, you know, I've heard about it before and my interest has been peaked.
It is a bean that is supposed to taste like ice cream.
In the past, when people say "Oh this fruit tastes like this",
a lot of times you have to use your imagination for you to get there.
So I'm going to be as honest as I possibly can.
So, I'm going to just like crack into this guy.
Like this.
Just so I can get err - I don't have a knife so we'll see how easy to crack into this without having one is.
Let's try peeling this back.
Yeah, that's pretty easy.
What's interesting about it is - whoops.
Besides the fact that I just dropped some on the floor,
it's fluffy looking.
That looks like a cotton ball.
Mmm. Alright!
Just took one - these come apart pretty easily into little chunks like that.
I've never had a fruit that has this weird, fluffy texture to it.
They're actually fairly light too.
It feels like you are putting a cotton ball in your mouth but
a delicious cotton ball.
They're very, very sweet.
You know, if ten is a sugar cube, this is probably like a seven or an eight.
It does have a slight vanilla kind of flavour - like a beany kind of flavour to it.
And the texture... is creamy and it is quite sweet.
So it does have a quality that is kind of like a vanilla ice cream.
But, I think, if I didn't have that suggestion,
I probably wouldn't have said that.
I think it actually tastes a lot like
a creamy persimmon.
It's sweet the way a persimmon is.
It's like... got a simliar texture even.
Besides the fluffiness, when you actually get into the
fruit, it has kind of like a firm get kind of
tooth quality to it the way persimmons have it.
It's kind of like a weird combination, it's not quite any of those things.
It's it's own unique fruit and it has
what I think is a pretty good flavour.
Like this is something that I would pick up again, definitely.
You know, I was really excited by this name,
so, when I bought it from the women she was like trying to sell
me like a whole lot of it. And I was like 'Okay!'.
So, now I have like a whole bunch of these things and...
I don't see that as a bad thing.
Because I'm like backpacking around Bolivia and these are like
pretty firm and hard.
So, I can actually like throw these in my backpack and when I want to eat like snack of something,
it's kind of like a perfect amount of food for like a snack.
And you don't have to wash it because it's inside this pod.
So it's kind of - it's kind of really convenient for that. That sort of purpose.
And I guess this has a lot of different uses. Like people use this to make juice.
They make an alcohol out of it.
They use the trees and the leaves and everything like that.
I guess like the trees - like the wood is really useful.
So, it's a very important fruit here in South America.
But, if you're not in South America, it's very difficult to get your hands on it.
Even if this is the only fruit that I find while I'm here, I'll say that this trip is already a success.
Hey guys! So, flash-forward a little bit! I'm in Colombia right now.
I'm in Bogota
I'm probably saying that wrong!
And they have a err - what has to be
some sort of relative to the ice cream bean.
These are more flat.
And... you can see that they're not nearly
as square, not nearly as ridgy.
In Colombia, they call this 'guama'.
And in Bolivia, they call the one that I reviewed 'pacay'.
So, they've got two completely names in Spanish but it could also be a regional thing.
Maybe they would call this 'pacay' in Bolivia too. I'm not too sure.
Yeah, as you can see in there, those seeds look very familiar, don't they?
(They are) maybe a little bit smaller fleshwise, but the seed looks about the same size.
The texture is a little different.
It's similar, still kind of like hairy.
But, something about it, like the viscosity of those little hairs are something [like] a little bit different.
The ones that I had in Bolivia, you kind of suck on that seed
and the flavour just slowly dissipates in your mouth. It's like a little juicier.
These ones are a little dry and a little mealy.
Still similar flavour.
Maybe a little... maybe a little weaker.
And not as sweet as the ones in Bolivia.
Inferior.
I'm sorry Colombia! Your fruit is amazing!
Amazing! But the ice cream beans that I found in Bolivia were better.
One plus side though is that the seeds, as you can see, are intact.
In the ones that I got in Bolivia, they were very crumbly.
You know, like... when you took one of these out, it was just kind of like flaking apart.
So, it would be difficult to propogate those ones, I think.
(Background street noises)
Okay, so BAM!
I found another thing with the name 'guama'.
It's much bigger, it's very flat. It does have a little bit of like a thin ridge to it.
I mean, look at this thing! It looks like it's from Jurassic Park!
It's just like this gigantic - it's bigger than my head!
It is a really, really big bean pod.
And, yeah! Same name as the other ones.
So, I'm guessing that this is another variety, maybe species of the ice cream bean.
This is turning into...a learning experience for me.
I though there was only one thing to really look for and I'm finding now three.
So, there is the inside.
Haha, just lost a couple.
Some are still hanging on though.
Very large, fuzzy seed.
This has got a really big seed in it! Look at that!
Alright, give me a second to eat this thing.
The flesh on this one sticks to the seed a little firmer than the last one.
The seed looks similar.
But, as you can see, it is much more elongated.
It's a little more - it's got a little more depth to it.
So this one, dare I say it, does actually kind of taste like ice cream!
I mean, not 100% because you know it's not cold.
But it is really creamy.
And it does have like a slight vanilla taste.
So, ice cream bean does taste like ice cream if you get the right kind of ice cream bean.
The first two didn't.
I mean like a little bit, if I use my imagination. It's really hard to eat these things though.
So, a little bit if you use your imagination and you'd be like "Oh yeah. A little ice cream note. Oh sure".
This one though, you don't have to use your imagination that much.
I think the first one was the best, for just like flavour.
Because it does have more sweetness to it.
It's a little more satisfying. This is creamier, more like having ice cream.
The second one was kind of like a dud.
It was like falling in between the two but it had a bad texture and not as nice of a flavour.
I've been wanting to try this fruit for such a long time and who would have thought I'd find 3 different fruits or three different looking fruits, at least
that are some sort of ice cream bean.
So, that's it guys. I hope you enjoyed this adventure of mine.
Finally! FINALLY!
Tracking down the ice cream bean.
I'm home!
Look at you, sweet little baby.
Did you miss your daddy?
You hardly moved the entire time I was away.
What is this?!
Oh God! There like thousands of... what did you do?!
Baby!
Alright.
I guess I'll book another trip.
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