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06-26-2009, 04:50 PM
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Mangosteen, cherimoya, soursop, sugar apple
Does anyone know where in the greater Puerto Plata - Sabaneta area I can buy fruit like these to try? I have looked for a long time but I only see the usual pineapple, mango etc. Occasionally I have found guavas and dragon fruit, and have tried wax jambu and a large red fruit described as a Dominican pear. I would love to try some of the others. There is also an oval fruit with a rough brown skin in Playero - how do you tell when it is ripe?
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Caz
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06-27-2009, 04:35 PM
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Does anyone know where in the greater Puerto Plata - Sabaneta area I can buy fruit like these to try? I have looked for a long time but I only see the usual pineapple, mango etc. Occasionally I have found guavas and dragon fruit, and have tried wax jambu and a large red fruit described as a Dominican pear. I would love to try some of the others. There is also an oval fruit with a rough brown skin in Playero - how do you tell when it is ripe?
Thanks
Caz
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A very good fruit to try is níspero, my favorite.
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06-27-2009, 08:30 PM
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like so many things
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06-28-2009, 11:13 AM
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Thanks Lambada - next time I'm in Playero I'll be squeezing gently - after checking to be sure JR is not around!!
A bientot - what does nispero look like please?
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06-28-2009, 07:13 PM
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Thanks Lambada - next time I'm in Playero I'll be squeezing gently - after checking to be sure JR is not around!!
A bientot - what does nispero look like please?
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I think there are various types of nísperos, but the type I'm familiar with, look like kiwifruit.
Last month I was hanging out with family members, all Dominicans, and we rated our favorite fruits: níspero was the overall champ, with 6 out of 10 first-place votes.
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06-29-2009, 01:07 AM
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Caz, google search Yahoo images - lots of pics there. Also, keep your ears open, you often hear street vendors selling them from their wheelbarrows or carts. They say the word twice & it sounds a bit like kneepero with the emphasis on the knee (JR don't even go there  ). |
06-29-2009, 07:26 AM
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Soursop is guanábana, fairly easy to find though not as common as piña, lechoza, etc.
I haven't actually seen a cherimoya/chirimoya in the DR, they grow mainly in South America and in the Mediterranean.
Sugar apple might be what Dominicans call anón.
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In Latin America regional names include anón, anón de azucar, anona blanca, fruta do conde, cachiman, saramuyo, and many others.
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Sugar-apple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fruit called níspero in Spain is loquat, not the same as its namesake in the DR which is sapodilla.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapodilla |
06-29-2009, 09:08 AM
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in columbia chirimoya is a very bad word.. lol and somebody here uses it for their name lol
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06-29-2009, 09:10 AM
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I can guess... Funny though, that hasn't come up before.
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