8 Comments to What Fruit is That?

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   FunCafe
   October 8, 2007 4:00 am

   http://pwmf.blogspot.com/2006/05/xi-gc-coconut-sweet-rice-dyed-with.html

   http://www.en.wikipedia.org/Gac

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   Graham
   October 8, 2007 4:17 am

   This brings back memories…

   http://www.noodlepie.com/2006/12/its_orange_that.html

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   Phil
   October 8, 2007 4:37 am

   Graham – I knew that I’d seen it somewhere before.

   I’m a bit surprised that I hadn’t seen them around in Cambodia previously – does anywhere apart from Vietnam eat them?

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   Mark Brownstein
   October 15, 2007 2:35 am

   This is in Vietnamese Guc or Gac fruit..It is a cucumber relative, I found it in Sapa in the market, iI was with a friend Trang and she said her granny made a beautiful sticky rice with it, Inside there are many large seeds surroundes by a brilliant orange/red pilp, which has a fatty consistency, no special flavor but vere fatty and nice, I soaked the seeds in rice vodka and it turned a hot orange color.. I cleaned and saved the seeds, they are a cool scarab like shape, Trang said her granny used to roast them and grind them into a medicine..

   SO the story is the health industry got a hold of this and has made juice with it and other ingredients, they call it a super food, one comes from Uk or Holland it has a name like G formula or something like that..

   Ciao from Italy, Foodhunter Mark

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   Lisa
   October 18, 2007 6:32 pm

   Our five-year-old says they’re “Puffer Fish Pears.” :-)

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   mycookinghut
   November 10, 2007 5:53 am

   First time I have seen this. Looks like big lye-chee.

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   Hai
   November 30, 2007 1:38 am

   This is called Gac in Vietnamese, its inners are used as natural color for sticky rice, called Xoi Gac.

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   Wong 33
   November 21, 2009 2:27 am

   Gac fruit

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