Comments on: What Fruit is That?

By: Wong 33

Wong 33 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:27:46 +0000

Gac fruit

By: Hai

Hai — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:38:17 +0000

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

By: mycookinghut

mycookinghut — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:53:27 +0000

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

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:32:50 +0000

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

By: Mark Brownstein

Mark Brownstein — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:35:53 +0000

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

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:37:22 +0000

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?

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:17:38 +0000

This brings back memories…

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

By: FunCafe

FunCafe — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:00:57 +0000

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

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