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What is this fruit? 火龙果
Sep 13, 2007 11:07
  • GRIZ326
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What is this fruit? 火龙果

My gal told me she was eating this fruit when she called. She did not know the English name for it. I translated it as "fire dragon fruit" but that doesn't help me know what she was eating.

Sep 13, 2007 19:48
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Here is a picture:

Sep 13, 2007 19:49
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This is 火龙果，hope the pic helps

Sep 13, 2007 20:46
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I think I have eaten one of those a long time ago.

When you open the outer skin is the fruit filled with small red berries about the size of peas?

...and now I need to know the English name for that...because for the life of me I do not recall what the name of it is!


Sep 13, 2007 22:09
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In english it is just called "dragon fruit" The inside looks like a melon, it is white with small black seeds. The taste is quite similar to honey melon too.
Sep 14, 2007 00:15
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Then I have never eaten it... I will have to try it some time.
Sep 14, 2007 02:09
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火龙果 is also called Pitaya fruit. The flesh of the dragon fruit look like this.

Sep 14, 2007 10:04
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In fact, there is a variety which is red inside, but most often it looks like this:

Sep 15, 2007 17:19
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Yes, I love the 'Dragon Fruit' as described with sweet white flesh and tiny black seeds, which are smaller and softer than poppy seeds. This is a very rare fruit to be found in the USA. And when I have seen it in the super market, it is very expensive. I can always find it fairly cheap in the markets in Guangzhou, and I buy it everytime I visit my Lao Po :) :)

BTW, I am leaving later today, to visit Lao Po again, in GZ for two weeks !! :) YAY !!!!!!

Will return on Oct. 1st and will be in China both for her birthday and for the Autumn Harvest Festival !! I love my visits to the PRC !!!!
Nov 6, 2007 01:29
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GUEST3ATTHI5 This "dragon fruit"... I want to know it's from where? How to know this "dragon fruit" is fresh? or from where is the "pure" dragon fruit?
Nov 8, 2007 17:11
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I have tried this before, tastes a bit like kiwi fruit.
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