What is my wife eating???
Nov 13, 2016, 12:48 am
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What is my wife eating???
She has a bag of fruit I've never seen before. She can only translate it as "Yellow Girl". Had I not seen her peel a papery skin off it I would have thought it was an odd-colored grape.
Nov 13, 2016, 1:10 am
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Nov 13, 2016, 3:15 am
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Cape Gooseberry?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis_peruviana
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis_peruviana
Thanks.
Nov 13, 2016, 4:25 am
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No doubt because that's the character-for-character translation of the fruit's common Chinese name, 黃姑娘 huang guniang.
According to one site, it does have other names, such as 毛酸漿 mao suanjiang ("hairy winter cherry"), 天泡子 tian paozi ("heavenly bulb"), and 燈籠果 denglong guo ("lantern fruit").
http://www.twword.com/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E5%A7%91%E5%A8%98
According to one site, it does have other names, such as 毛酸漿 mao suanjiang ("hairy winter cherry"), 天泡子 tian paozi ("heavenly bulb"), and 燈籠果 denglong guo ("lantern fruit").
http://www.twword.com/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E5%A7%91%E5%A8%98
Nov 13, 2016, 4:31 pm
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No doubt because that's the character-for-character translation of the fruit's common Chinese name, 黃姑娘 huang guniang.
According to one site, it does have other names, such as 毛酸漿 mao suanjiang ("hairy winter cherry"), 天泡子 tian paozi ("heavenly bulb"), and 燈籠果 denglong guo ("lantern fruit").
http://www.twword.com/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E5%A7%91%E5%A8%98
According to one site, it does have other names, such as 毛酸漿 mao suanjiang ("hairy winter cherry"), 天泡子 tian paozi ("heavenly bulb"), and 燈籠果 denglong guo ("lantern fruit").
http://www.twword.com/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E5%A7%91%E5%A8%98
Nov 15, 2016, 7:12 pm
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Ah, one of my favorite memories of China was figuring out the fruit I was eating. And also figuring out how to eat it.
Nov 16, 2016, 4:51 am
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That is exactly what it is when dried out 
Back to the translation, there are so many regional variations for food names (I can think of at least 5 names for a potato off the top of my head; just last week I got totally confused by a Shanghai lady's conversation about broccoli). I find Google Images a much better "translation" tool than Google Translate for such matters.
Back to the translation, there are so many regional variations for food names (I can think of at least 5 names for a potato off the top of my head; just last week I got totally confused by a Shanghai lady's conversation about broccoli). I find Google Images a much better "translation" tool than Google Translate for such matters.
Nov 16, 2016, 1:19 pm
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Meanwhile, I'm searching for what my Chinese hosts called "Chinese dates". They were small and a mottled green/brown color. Crunchy and tasted sort of like an apple. Are they available in the States?
Nov 16, 2016, 1:49 pm
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It'd look like it's what is called a jujube (which I thought were some sort of gummy candy). Not only available in the U.S. but grown in California. Not sure about quality though (e.g., U.S.-grown pomelos are pretty horrible compared to the Chinese imports I usually buy).
Nov 16, 2016, 6:47 pm
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SQ has served me Cape Gooseberries as part of the breakfast fruit plate in F out of SIN and PVG before. They are not that uncommon and I can get them at a local produce market I go to in Shanghai. Until now I thought they originated in Southern China or northern Southeast Asia!
Nov 16, 2016, 8:17 pm
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As aside (but still on the gooseberry topic), I wonder how many people know the "Kiwi fruit" originates as a Chinese fruit (the Chinese Gooseberry)?
Nov 19, 2016, 5:07 am
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Yes NZ changed the name of the fruit in the 1970s to Kiwi Fruit, I grew up knowing them as chinese gooseberries.
The yellow girls are sold in the UK sometimes as Physalis
The yellow girls are sold in the UK sometimes as Physalis