8 hours ago, jas007 said:

I can’t say I “miss” any particular fruit, but what about lemons?  
 

In Thailand, they seem to call limes “lemons.”  I’ve seen real lemons in the grocery store, so it’s not like they don’t have those here.

 

They do indeed call limes lemons. As my wife calls petrol/gasoline oil. We have a large lime tree in our garden and sometimes see lemons in Lotus's, but I don't have much need for them. Now, if I could master making English-style pancakes... Seemingly easy, but I've had only limited success.

Kentish Strawberries and Spanish Peaches , both should be coming in to season about now ..

Wild blackberries, Picking them and making wine from them.

Red cherries, vic plumbs.

On 6/6/2024 at 6:58 AM, Bangkok Barry said:

 

They do indeed call limes lemons. As my wife calls petrol/gasoline oil. We have a large lime tree in our garden and sometimes see lemons in Lotus's, but I don't have much need for them. Now, if I could master making English-style pancakes... Seemingly easy, but I've had only limited success.

I have lemon tree in my garden here but they are not the same as you buy, rather larger and a bit of an odd shape but full of juice. I make lemonade from them of use them on fish.

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

I have lemon tree in my garden here but they are not the same as you buy, rather larger and a bit of an odd shape but full of juice. I make lemonade from them of use them on fish.

 

Magic!

The Georgia, tree-ripened peach.

 

When I lived in the southern mountains, they'd get driven up to us in mid-June, beating the Walmart peaches by a month.

 

He'd open up the back of the truck at 9 AM, and be gone by 10:30. Prob not more than 20,000 people in the southeast get to eat a peach that perfect, that early.

 

Pear-apples in the fall. A few evil lib-ruls have planted them over the years in Appalachia.  TrumpTrash even having a fruit tree is beyond unlikely. I've never seen it.

 

PearApples are very prolific  in a mountain climate and people would beg me to take a shopping bag of them away for free. They're about $3-4 in an upper tier grocery. Again, right off the tree is a huge uptick.

 

Threadjack: 

 

What micro seasonal produce did you have back home? In England, we had early rhubarb and white asparagus

51 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

What micro seasonal produce did you have back home? In England, we had early rhubarb and white asparagus

We grew rhubarb in the garden but I really didn't like it. Usually too sour for my taste. We had a cox's apple tree, and they were sour but I liked them. Strange. Next door had gooseberries which as a kid I used to steal.

Rhubarb can't be sour enough. Back in the mountains, we had a rhubarb stand that was a meter in diameter. It's good for a 20% add-in in an apple pie.

 

Goosberries take 4 years to fruit in mountains and are prolific around year 6. It's a real commitment to plant something for that far out.

 

It's the opposite of Don't Buy Any Green Banana's.

 

Right off the Old City of Chiang Mai today, I saw an old teak house that had a huge jackfruit tree on the property edge -with half a dozen green monsters hanging off of it.

 

The area's east and west of the Old City have a lot of fruit trees; it's very unique in a city setting.

Fresh apples, off the tree more than a week.  Ina place called Nelson New Zealand the fruit was so sweet and crisp. 

 

Not like some of this flowery crap that they call fresh here. These you could hear as you bite into them and hear the flesh breaking away. Same with pears and nectarines. 

7 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:

Fresh apples, off the tree more than a week.  Ina place called Nelson New Zealand the fruit was so sweet and crisp. 

 

Not like some of this flowery crap that they call fresh here. These you could hear as you bite into them and hear the flesh breaking away. Same with pears and nectarines. 

 

Same with the quality of meat here. Cra*[ compared to what I've experienced in Europe and Australia,

Just now, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Same with the quality of meat here. Cra*[ compared to what I've experienced in Europe and Australia,

I don't mind Thai pork but their beef is only good for dog roll. 

We get pretty decent apple here, much better than we used to get and the price is not too bad. Try the Envy brand at Makro. 

 

 

You can get everything here… BUT… the good fruit is expensive…..  such as…

 

- Strawberries (good ones not the tasteless ones that are cheaper) 

- Good Cherries 

- Good seedless grapes

3 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:

I don't mind Thai pork but their beef is only good for dog roll. 

I think the Thai chicken, pork and seafood are all good, and much cheaper than in the US, but yeah, the beef is sh*t. 

 

Good eggs here as well. 

 

 

Just now, richard_smith237 said:

You can get everything here… BUT… the good fruit is expensive…..  such as…

 

- Strawberries (good ones not the tasteless ones that are cheaper) 

- Good Cherries 

- Good seedless grapes

Last time we vacationed in Chiang Mai they were growing strawberries, and they were actually pretty good, much better than they looked. Hopefully they get a decent market going for them.

 

Prices for decent table grapes seem to be more reasonable than they used to be. 

 

To hot here to grow cherries, and the imports are always pricey, and the quality hit-or-miss...

2 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

You can get everything here… BUT… the good fruit is expensive…..  such as…

 

- Strawberries (good ones not the tasteless ones that are cheaper) 

- Good Cherries 

- Good seedless grapes

 

You can, if you live in a large town and then it's available at Western prices. Thai strawberries are a joke. So are most of the pomegranates I see. Anemic rubbish.

8 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

We get pretty decent apple here, much better than we used to get and the price is not too bad. Try the Envy brand at Makro. 

 

 

 

These look like plums? They also do some very good passion fruit at the moment at a good price. Lotus[s have them too.

 

My local Makro has also been selling dates at a ridiculous two boxes for 105, when they also have another brand at 465 for one. And they are very decent. I have been to Dubai many times and was surprised how expensive dates are there. You'd think they would almost be giving them away.

7 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

These look like plums? They also do some very good passion fruit at the moment at a good price. Lotus[s have them too.

 

My local Makro has also been selling dates at a ridiculous two boxes for 105, when they also have another brand at 465 for one. And they are very decent. I have been to Dubai many times and was surprised how expensive dates are there. You'd think they would almost be giving them away.

I think most of the dates in Dubai come from California. 

 

How about the dates in the Emirates lounges in Dubai? 

 

These cheap dates on Lazada are actually pretty good. They have to be cleaned but they make great shakes and date loaves. 

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8 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

I think most of the dates in Dubai come from California. 

 

All those I've seen say they are a product of the UAE. I've not looked at the origin of those in the lounge, although I'd be surprised at a Dubai-based airline using American rather than UAE products. But it's a strange world.

From what I remember, yes some dates in Dubai were crazy rich prices.  But then they tend to go crazy on strange stuff. 

 

Actually the dates I had in Iraq were probably the best I've ever had.  It was like honey encased in a thin skin. 

 

The dates we had in NZ were old dry things that were only good for a date loaf. 

19 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

19 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

I think most of the dates in Dubai come from California. 

 

All those I've seen say they are a product of the UAE. I've not looked at the origin of those in the lounge, although I'd be surprised at a Dubai-based airline using American rather than UAE products. But it's a strange world.

 

Within the UAE (Qatar also)... most of the Dates are imported from Iran and Saudi...   particularly the higher end Medjool dates.... 

20 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

You can, if you live in a large town and then it's available at Western prices. Thai strawberries are a joke. So are most of the pomegranates I see. Anemic rubbish.

 

Yup thats the issue - Strawberries imported from Japan are amazing, but also amazingly expensive. 

 

Tomatoes are another one - I can't seem to get the standard of tomatoes that I can find in the UK - even in the higher end Bangkok Supermarkets (Gourmet Market / Villa etc) - they have decent tomatoes, just not the rich tasting ones I find in the UK.

 

This is particularly notable when I make a butter chicken....  fastidious about process and perfection my butter-chicken is the best I've had....  But, the one I make in the UK is better than the one I make in Thailand, the only difference is the tomatoes, everything else is identical.

On 5/22/2024 at 6:24 PM, Bangkok Barry said:

 

I was raised in the UK and loved my fruit. I'm old enough to remember when bananas were considered exotic. Even more so were kiwi fruit, that we called Chinese gooseberries. Pineapples only came in tins. Now I grow them all in my garden here. My favourites were (non-Chinese) gooseberries, which we grew in our garden, and the large sweet ones called levellers, which we didn't. What happened to gooseberries? Haven't seen them for decades.

 

Thailand, of course, has more fruit that you can handle, but what fruits do you miss from home? I love raspberries, apricots, Victoria plums, all very hard to find and, if so, very expensive here. Even decent large and juicy strawberries, not the small anemic Thai variety.

berries on the bush and cherries form the tree.

in the city where I grew up we had very large back yard lots and alleyways. Between us and our neighbors every summer we had plums, apples, cherries, blueberries raspberries, blackberries, and peaches on demand. 

as kids we used to sit in the trees eating our fill. 

 

I walked into 7-11 about a month ago and saw a single box of fresh cherries for 80 baht. I figured what the hell, bought them and nearly came first bite.

 

7 hasn't had any since and a box at Villa is like 500 baht.  It was a cruel tease