Fruit Hunter: Cherimoya

Fruit Hunter: Cherimoya

            Cherimoya, it is the fruit of the Annoa Cherimoya. It is from the mountains of Ecuador and Peru. The name “Cherimoya” is derived from the Quechua word, “Chirimuya”; it means “cold seeds”. Cherimoya uses to grow at the mountains with lower temperature. Now, it has been grown at many place in the world, some place are much warmer. It is not hard to grow at many places in the world.

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            I found Cherimoya at Kensington Market, near the china town. We can use to get many different type of the fruit in china town but its hard for me to find one which I never try before, cause I am from China. The price for Cherimoya is about 5$/lb. And each one of them will be about a lb. Kensington Market is a market close to China town and there are much different type of fruit that we can found. More cooler than normal market that we use to go. Cherimoya looks fresh green color and big, somehow I though it will like a green apple. That is why I choose it.

                        Cherimoya Tropical Soup

Ingredients:

1.     1 large ripe cherimoya

2.     1 large ripe mango

3.     1 cup apple juice

4.     1 cup milk (coconut or raw cow’s milk are best)

5.     1 Tbs. honey

6.     Pinch of ground cinnamon

Directions:

1.     Chill all ingredients for at least an hour before preparing.

2.     Peel and seed the mango and cherimoya and cut them into pieces.

3.     Put the fruit, apple juice, milk, honey and cinnamon in a blender and puree till smooth.

4.     Pour into serving bowls, add garnish of choice, and serve.

5.     Enjoy as a bright, fresh appetizer or dessert.

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From this experience, I learn some information about Cherimoya. I am knowing one more fruit after this time. Seriously, Cherimoya tastes like one kind of fruit that is very popular in Taiwan; we called it 'Shakya", or its called SugarApple. I really think that cherimoya just like SugarApple or Sugar is even better than cherimoya. There are so much different tip of the fruit in the world, some of them taste like others but they are still different. Every fruit has their own special taste, without trying you will never know how they special. why not go and get one then try them by yourself. 

Bat Soup

   I would like to share one food that i never tried before in my life. It is "Bat Soup".

Yes, it is a soup cook by bat; I know it sounds creepy maybe many of you had already beard that before. Have you very tried it before? 

   Let's talk abut the Bat Soup now, bat soup is base on the soup cook by a whole bat. Most of the time when the restaurant serve the soup they don't put the bat in the soup, therefore we won't see the bat in the soup normally, but if we want to eat or to see the bat inside the soup, they will take off all the hair from the bat and cook it little bit and serve it to you. 

   There are 2 kind of bats, one is only eat the nectar and other one is eat the insects. the most of the popular one for soup is the one only eat the nectar, cause people believe that they eat all the nectar from the flowers they must be be smell and taste really special.

   Wolfberry and ginger are the most common thing that you will see when you order one bat soup, if you choose the different type of the bat soup you will get different things in the soup. normally wolf berry and ginger are very popular with the bat soup.

  Many people said, the bat soup taste more like a chicken soup and the meat of the bat...; yes, it's just like chicken. The bat meat taste like chicken but more sweet and softy and little bit ginseng flavor. It is not spicy, sour and not bitter for the bat soup. The soup smell like Ginseng flavor chicken soup by some flower smell. Without the bat inside the soup it looks just like a chicken soup, very clear; once we add the bat inside the soup, somehow you might feel like it is a boneless chicken when you take a look closer you will know it is a bat. The bat is much softer than a normal chicken. And after we done the bat, we can take it out of the soup and open the wings for it and see how big that bat is. You if really wants to know how it taste like, I will say a boneless chicken soup with ginseng and a little bit of flower power or something like that.

   The soup is unique because we don't have many chance to see a bat in our life, not even to taste it. And more important is the flavor of the soup; although I said it taste like a chicken soup but the flavor of it is really special. Then flower smell and the sweet taste but not sugar, that is all why I think this soup is unique.

   After i tried the Bat Soup,as I tell you before. It taste really like a Chicken soup. And very strong ginger taste and smell. the ginseng is just ok. The soup is not salty, it is tasty by a little slat and the sweet is more like honey bout not much. I pretty much enjoy the Bat Soup without the bat inside the soup. For some reason, the bat looks really creepy. The taste of the bat is a chicken taste, not much different than a chicken; and yes, the bat meat is much sweeter and softer. The meat and the soup is not sour and spicy therefore it is very popular for everyone.

   I am not going to eat that again in normal time. If there are some people wants to try then I would like to go aging but not often. two reasons, first, the soup is not easy to get and the second reason will be the Bat. The Bat is really weird. 

   This soup taste really balance and gentle but not appealing is not enough. Because it is too similar to chicken soup. Only if you can taste the flower sweet flavor in the meat and the soup. otherwise its just like a chicken soup.

   From this experience, I learn how to taste the food more deep or more inside. For example, normally its not easy for me to tell what is the different between chicken meat and bat meat. After this experience, I can tell the difference and try to taste it more carefully and deeper. Somehow, I also mean the different type of animals will give the different taste after we cook it. Like the bat, if the bat is only eat the nectar then the meat will be more sweet. That is a good class for me.