Comments on: Chicos & Indian Mangoes in Season Now!

By: emsy

emsy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:07:24 +0000

MM have you tried juani (or is it wani?) mangoes? the ones with the heady smell that indicate that they’re ripe…we have a juani season in Zamboanga but I don’t think I have seen them here in Manila.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:26:27 +0000

I think chico is not a local fruit to the Philippines it must have been brought over by the spaniards. In the 80’s we went to Jamaica and ate some chicos and got me sick. It was funny
we were like in super exclusive resort and they had a good spread of food. Here I was with my wife, just slurping on those chicos.
Another time coming in from Canada, we had to eat bags of lanzones by the US/Canada border because we cannot bring it back to the U.S.
katakawan….

By: thelma fujimoto

thelma fujimoto — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:29:31 +0000

i was at a hotel restaurant having breakfast last week while visiting in the philippines and noticed brown fruits among those on the dessert corner. i asked the waiter what were those brown fruits (at first i thought they were potatoes…but why would they place potatoes there???), and he answered that they
were chicos. i haven’t eaten chicos for ages so i was so excited and ate quite a few of them… delicious! a friend of mine also gaveme very red and ripe macopas. she also gave me a white variety which i haven’t seen before…also equally sweet!
another friend gave me really ripe and the sweetest langka segments. that was another treat that i haven’t had in a long time!!!

By: diday

diday — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:03:17 +0000

MM, the red papaya variety is better than the yellow one.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:49:15 +0000

diday, OMG, unripe papaya with suka, I haven’t had that in decades!

By: diday

diday — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:17:28 +0000

Millet, my childhood summers in Cebu were occasionally spent with visiting relatives from Mindanao. The customary indoor sungka diversion dipping Indian mangoes with salt or crunchy unripe papaya with vinegar is the sort of entertainment the computer kids of today cannot relate to.

By: joey

joey — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:29:42 +0000

Hooray! I love chicos! I’ll make sure to buy a bunch next time I’m at the market :)

By: tipat

tipat — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:55:11 +0000

perfect post because i keep craving for indian mangoes althroughout my first trimester… I’m still not over it! :-)

By: paolo

paolo — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:50:06 +0000

this may seem redundant but nice shots MarketMan!

By: Diwata08

Diwata08 — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:51:16 +0000

Chris… you can watch the Paquiao-Hatton fight on youtube na!!!