DRAGONPLUMS - We tried 4 kinds of this very rare fruit (Dracontomelon)

[@WeirdExplorer]

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[@juliansaja347]

Dude, try eat matoa fruit.

[@michigansoul460]

I will never understand why he doesn’t have millions of followers his content and cinematography are excellent as well as educational.

[@mria621]

Stephen could find fruit on the moon. 😂

[@edgarburlyman738]

Stephen is awesome so was the coffee couple, Jared has cool taste in people

[@1.4142]

growing out of the poop astronauts left there

[@edgarburlyman738]

@@1.4142 personally I think that whole story smells

[@justinwebb8831]

​@@edgarburlyman738and the personality variety is insane... love of exploration, love of fruit and the culture surrounding it,and a contortionist's schedule

[@President_Starscream]

Desmond the moon fruit.

[@Risa_YD]

The Spondius (sp) you have there 14:42 turns yellow in Barbados. I think they're ripe here now actually. I believe we call them hog plums. When green, we eat them with salt.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I think you are right. Pretty sure its hog plum aka spondius mombin

[@luisledesma586]

in the DR we call them turkey plum, in Spanish of course.

[@hedykarim3614]

We call them common plums in TT and we call another kind hog plum

[@lasagnahog7695]

I often feel like I'm learning things from this channel that I couldn't learn elsewhere on the internet, if not due to my only speaking english. Typing "dracontomelon" into youtube the top two results are a vlog and a minute long video more about the tree, both very cool and informative in their own ways of course. And the wikipedia pages are pretty sparse. Like, I probably would have gone my entire life without hearing about dracontomelon if not for this channel, much less knowing enough terminology to find dried ones to buy online.

[@JoelDZ]

My Vietnamese mom will add (unripe?) dracontomelons to pork rib stew for a nice kick of acidity and flavor.

[@kiritoxy]

i can imagine the locals like man there is a weird american traveler that interested with our tree..

[@WeirdExplorer]

that happens a lot

[@discoverymike888]

Just found Dracontomelon duperraneum in central Hong Kong. There's also a rare tree listed in the Old & Valuable tree government registry - fascinating. And in the busy shopping district Causeway Bay outside a mall there's even a row of the same Dracontomelon duperreanum. Fruits dangling from the tree. Wonder how they got selected and planted.

[@WeirdExplorer]

very cool!

[@SKaede]

A little correction on Sau bao tu, it's not means "crocodile stomach", While Sau is the name of the fruit happens to have the same word as crocodile they are not mean to have any relation. Bao tu is indeed stomach but it's usually use to imply baby/young fruit. This fruit often use to add sour to soup/stew, dry pickle for tea snack and pickle for drink.

[@briancuz5535]

Oooh catching my fav type of vid 5 mins after upload. Now this is epic

[@vanessapaakkonen6637]

One of my favorite videos you have done. True fruit explorers! Thk you Stephen for insights as well. I realized i was wearing my "shirt" while watching this video. I must be a huge fan 🤣. Thk you again for amazing exploration of fruits around the world and the knowledge you bring to it. Love it!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@chrisdryer]

some of those plums sound great. Even the dried stuff with chilis... that sounds great..

[@vietnammg]

I had some in Vietnam. These are not eaten raw but cooked or preserved because of its tartness. The taste is a bit like a mixe of Plum/Green Mango/Tamarind with crunchy texture.

[@user-hp1jw9tg3l]

it's good you guys can travel around and help people ID!

[@lolermosskoss1834]

Incase you are reading this, go to Germany again, I’m sure you can find some berries you have never tried before like Sanddorn (seaberry/sea-buckthorn) , Weißdorn (hawthorn) or even Wildrose (wild rose) oh they already got reviewed, you didn’t try Schlehe (blackthorn) tho

[@WeirdExplorer]

😅 I still would like to go back to Germany

[@lolermosskoss1834]

Yay! It’s also nice to see that you read your comments! Some KZbinrs don’t do that

[@IQzminus2]

@@WeirdExplorerif you go back to Germany or Sweden or Finland, or really any part of northern / Central Europe, you should try what in Swedish is called Smultron (Fragaria vesca). In German I believe it’s called Wald-Erdbeere. So it’s a strawberry relative. A regular strawberry is a Fragaria × ananassa. But a smultron is smaller, with a very different texture. The flavour is also very different, even though these are smaller then a strawberry, one small berry has more flavour then a whole strawberry. A strawberry is a lot more sour and watery in its taste. While a smultron has more complex flavour profile with a lot more aromas. They taste as different from eachother as maybe pears and apples. Yes, you can tell they are related, but yet very different taste. Fragaria vesca had a long history of being cultivated, and eaten in Europe. Super beloved for its taste all the way back to Roman time and beyond. The problem for commercial use all through history, is that it’s delicate and has a very short shelf life. Which makes it hard to sell even on a small commercial scale. Jams sometimes were made of it. But they are small and taste so much better fresh, that it’s very rare to see them used as anything other then eaten fresh. That is the problem that created the strawberry. To be able to have something that would work for commercial use. A hybrid created with the goal of having a bigger berry and more importantly firmer texture and higher durability. Resulting in a berry that could be used and eaten similarly to Fragaria vesca but that has a lot less flavour, but actually could have commercial purpose. It still common to find Fragaria vesca grow in the wild in parts of Europe. But also cultivated and commonly grown for personal use. In English strawberry was originally the name for Fragaria vesca. But then Fragaria × ananassa came and sort of stole the name. So now I believe Fragaria vesca is sometimes called wild strawberry or alpine strawberry. Which I think is a pretty bad name. (As they are different species. Like using the same name for a organs and mandarin) In Swedish they are considered completely separate different berries, with completely different names.

[@WeirdExplorer]

@@IQzminus2 Oh that's what those are! I saw these for sale in France a couple years ago. I didn't pick them up because they were very expensive and wilted. next time I see them I'll pick them up.

[@dmckenzie9281]

It looks more like a Sleestak from land of the lost than a. smiley face.

[@Calamity_Jack]

Or a grey alien head ;)

[@mushroomsamba82]

I enjoy watching these trips to tropical islands, they are beautiful but I know I'd hate it if I went. Can't stand hot and humid weather.

[@blackbway]

Too bad, because in hot, humid countries is where true paradise is.

[@ferretyluv]

@@blackbwayDisagree. Iceland is paradise to me (except Akureyri, because it smells like shit).

[@k3kr]

Very interesting that this is the only fruit review channel on KZbin

[@susanrichardson631]

Everyone else is too busy making their money off of shock, offensiveness and general controversy.. Most people don't dip into subjects for the joy of them like he does anymore. There needs to be a renaissance..

[@Slampty]

The last fruit in Panama we call it Ciruela.

[@bobnugget3345]

This a perfect channel to watch on a sunday after church.

[@mononk72]

Now, I have watched your videos for a while. Ever since the first one, I've been wondering about a fruit I tasted in Australia in 1988, sort of a cross between a banana and a red corn cob. I got your shirts. I really dig your channel. But this duck-stab shirt is just a wonderful bonus.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks so much! Red corn cob...hmm maybe a pandanus of some kind. there's a bunch in Australia with different shapes and sizes.

[@Rockymtncraycray]

I needed this upload this morning. I have been following you for about 7 years now, and you help bring calm to my chaotic world. I desperately neded this upload this morning. My father took off and abandoned my family a few days ago. This gave me a much needed distraction this morning. I love you for what you do. thank you so much.

[@forevertj]

Great episode Jared!

[@Pawzeez92]

Can you visit Cook islands/Rarotonga

[@QuantumRangerPower]

The food network/good eats music at the start threw me for a minute before I recognized it. Interesting video as always! I enjoy your channel as someone who is not personally very adventurous.

[@clintparsons3989]

Dracontomelon sounds like a dragon/grass type Pokémon.

[@agathachristie7173]

🤮🤮🤮

[@sergeii9607]

I like these longer videos. Do you do vlogs of your travels? Doesnt have to be fruit specific to be interesting.

[@junkfoodrocks2012]

cool! have you ever tried kiwi berries? i just tried some yesterday in amish pennsylvania

[@WeirdExplorer]

yep! Good stuff. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWavipallt17grM

[@williampatrickfurey]

12:06 fantastic inspiration

[@DeathMetalDerf]

Mainly commenting to appease the almighty algorithm. I hope everyone is doing well and having a great day!!

[@hedykarim3614]

The one you talked about saying it looks like an ambarela fruit is found on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago we call them common plums. We eat them with salt , pepper , garlic or they are boiled in sugar and red coloring

[@SultrySeeder]

I'm still bummed that I wasn't able to go on the trips to Thailand and Vietnam that you hosted. 😟☹️

[@elliephants7047]

These are interesting! I don't know that I'd be into the whole unripe fruit with salt and chili, but like, I've never had the chance to try it. Who knows!

[@Alexa-Raine]

4:20 😂 You had me getting really anxious.. WILL IT SMILE?!😨

[@frankmacleod2565]

I haven't even seen that movie but I know the reference, and yep that nut does look like Jack Skellington

[@sneakythumbs9900]

"Downtown Fiji" Hey guys here I am in downtown USA!

[@OscarHarrold]

You should try sweet cup fruit, it is a type of passionfruit with very hard shell. It is supposed to taste very aromatic and sweet like a granadilla!

[@blackbway]

I thought that sweet cup was a soft shell type. very small, red skin or bright orange, white flesh and kind of floral taste. It grows wild in Jamaica. Maybe your sweet cup is a different type of passion, I would certainly like to try it if that's the case.

[@OscarHarrold]

I am pretty sure you are talking about Passiflora foetida. Small fruit with some sort of moss-like bract around it. The sweet cup I was talking about is called Passiflora maliformis but I knew they were both called sweet cups. I often call the Passiflora foetida as ‘wild passionfruit’ but many people call it in different ways

[@blackbway]

@@OscarHarrold yeah, that's the one I was talking about. I didn't know the botanical name though.

[@sutekhthedestroyer6412]

Jared. I found a fruit mislabeled as Abiu in an Australian foreign market by a man who did not speak good English. It looks the same in the outside but has peachy flesh inside which is sourer the closer to the inside you go. With slightly larger browner seeds... Perhaps you will find this if you consistently taste test Abiu you see

[@dantegrandia1990]

Keep up the good work!

[@hedykarim3614]

Amberela fruit we call them June plums or pommecythere in Trinidad and Tobago

[@william6509]

Those look amazing!

[@WeirdExplorer]

So good!

[@alessandromariani3015]

They look similar to pink pepper it seems to me, big pink pepper fruits.

[@UntilxThexSunxDies]

I just had a dream that I was eating all kinds of fruit but there was really small black berries that tasted good that stood out. Thanks for buying a plane ticket in my dream Jordan. You said the ticket was super cheap and that you wanted me to have a good time and not to sweat the price of the ticket. Super awesome dream.

[@JTMusicbox]

Several varieties including one that was unexpected enough that you couldn’t pinpoint it. Very cool!

[@MephistoRolling]

That last one looked like a chinese olive. Canarium album

[@itsflammer]

When you show the misterious fruit I automatically shauted "SIRIGUELA!" (spondias purpurea), but it is actuallly something else!

[@YuruCampSupermacy]

I love this channel

[@joshuaperry4112]

Do you have a video on fruits that grow in cold weather? I'd love to grow rare fruit in NY - 5b.

[@PlantObsessed]

It would be cool to get a fruit named after you.

[@edgarburlyman738]

Papayas are like that for me, so mild and go down so easy I could eat mostly them.

[@bor3549]

Clades vs landraces. Clades would say a tomatoe is a tomatoe. Landraces says a traveler tomato is nothing like a boar tomato.

[@LuizSPires]

Love the channel! One suggestion for your 'will it ketchup' series. In Brazil, Guava Ketchup is quite popular and it is very delicious. I can't believe you haven't explored this fantastic ketchup alternative!

[@t3hwaddledee]

That sounds delicious! I’m going to have to seek out a recipe. I love peach ketchup, so another fruit one to add to the list would be awesome. Does it ever get made with feijoa? Or is it true guavas only? I like feijoa more than the guavas I’ve tried, but to be fair, I haven’t found many different types 😅

[@mandab.3180]

such a cool name

[@theMusiCandMedicinE]

I can see jack skellington on the first nut, but my immediate thought was rango ☺️

[@pierre-alexandreclement7831]

❤❤❤❤

[@clarkefountain2258]

Love you and your episodes (I watch/like every one), but would very much appreciate it if you found sharp knives on your travels and/or sharpened your knives at home!

[@President_Starscream]

Don't sue Mac, he didn't mean to, I swear!

[@ArticAkita2830]

"The nightmare before Christmas fruit" lol!

[@jbomb7867]

That one does look like Jack Skellington. They should call it jackfruit.

[@malcolmsmart5214]

Is 'Duck Stab' your favorite Residents album?

[@WeirdExplorer]

nah Animal Lover is my favorite.

[@PhinClio]

Growing up in the Bay Area in the late '70s and early '80s, I had a friend in school who had the nickname "Duck Stab" because he looked like the guy on that album cover.

[@Ari-jj9op]

Have you tried sumac lemonade?

[@loricurbo]

I keep having to remind myself that Steven is married lol, I just find him so adorable :)

[@maobfh]

My sister lives in Bakersfield and I have told her about Steven/Stephen’s rare fruits. Does he have a shop? Does it take care of itself?

[@clankclankimatank]

His family farm does farmers markets around the area. They also have two physical locations. You can look up Murray Family Farms.

[@pattheplanter]

The ones in bunches looked far more yellow/orange. Was that just the lighting?

[@WeirdExplorer]

Yeah... thats my camera. I accidentally switched into a different mode. Took me a day to figure it out so some videos are washed out 🤦‍♂️

[@JonHop1]

Were you guys just sweating super bad, or was the weather still kinda bad over there in Vanuatu? I noticed you and Steven had wet hair the entire time in every video there lol.. Id assume its probably rather hot and humid there.

[@BruceGoren]

The seed of that last one looked a lot like a Jujube to me.

[@lukasparo194]

These are members of the comment readers club. Thanks for reading I wish you well Enjoy the video

[@Melissa0774]

What kind of store did you get the dried ones at, that you tried in the beginning of the video? Can you get them at a good Asian or Indian supermarket?

[@WeirdExplorer]

I got them at the airport in Saigon. But they were available at supermarkets in Vietnam. I've never seen them in the US

[@edgarburlyman738]

Don't tell the bikers round the veteran's club where I live you did a tour of Vietnam! They'll throw their dentures at you.

[@johnnyearp52]

Are you having problems asking locals questions? I know language can be a barrier but it seems like they could tell you if a fruit is ripe or how it is usually eaten.

[@Slampty]

I see you got a side Kick!

[@coffee-time01]

Sorta looks like a Gineypa.

[@GhostOnTheHalfShell]

Down town Fiji.. maybe you meant Nandi?

[@johnzale7748]

Had me thinking we’d see an elusive Governor’s Plum (Flacourtia). Here’s to hoping! Great episode, as always.

[@meisteremm]

I think that the people who believed that this fruit looked like it was smiling are probably the type of people to see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast.

[@ComradeMario]

Ohh, these things, here in Guangdong China we pickle them in soy sauce with sugar. And I think the core looks like alien face😂

[@sandstorm6605]

My luck: Oh no it was actually poisonous scrotumus. Followed by 2 weeks of the trots.

[@mychal4895]

last one looks like hog plum, even the seed looks like the seed of a hog plum

[@wayfinder1882]

species nerds probably know that the s at the end is not a plural-s! ;)

[@nordan1954]

The guy is going to Fiji to get a very rare fruit and records it on cam: not ripe 😂

[@leonart7875]

I think Stephen is s mango guy

[@OrrinLepp]

2:13 this belongs to RMBrown 🚽 🚽 🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽 I call bluff

[@adazeobazee4145]

Are you married ?

[@humanwithaplaylist]

Dude you should try pronounce the fruits properly. It comes off as blatant racism. The words aren't that hard

[@shanebep3135]

The Steven has returned once more🤎🤍🤎🤍 We are pleased 🤎🤍🤎🤍He does not shed his corporeal existence🤎 that can not be allowed🤎 the game must not end🤎🤍🤎🖤