Comments on: Duhat in Season!

By: denzztabs, Australia

denzztabs, Australia — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:59:19 +0000

I love this fruit and i remember my childhood days and we used to steal/climb this tree at the cemetery and its soooo sweet and juicy too like if you shake it with salt and sugar.No one dared to taste this lovely fruit but us, some old folk says its guarded by ghosts and the best thing is we dont believe in ghosts LOL but we believe in the sweetness of this stuff!.One more thing, we can climb this fruit anytime we want to as long as we have a pack of Alhambra cigarette as bribe to the local “Sepulturero”….those were the days.

By: Samson

Samson — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:48:34 +0000

The closest fruit to Lanzones is the Pink Grapefruit Juice, just add a little salt and shake it. then you have a Lanzones Cocktail. Try it you’ll like it!!! I’ve done this many time and my family loves my Lanzones Cocktail. Ice Cold.

By: kittel

kittel — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:17:15 +0000

This is one of my favorite fruits. The fondest memories I have is sitting on top of the Lumboy tree and just reaching out and eating the fruits right then and there…Makes me want to go home and climb the tree just for the heck of it.but on second thought, I might break the branches off with my current weight…

By: parirami

parirami — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:39:07 +0000

Isn’t ‘tannin’ in red wines – described as ‘robust’ or minute..etc, just the same experience as ‘Pakla’, only that it’s use in the Philippines in a more negative way when refering to unripened fruits? See, it seems to me that our experience of tannins as a functional substance were largely in their most astringent amounts: eating unripened fruits, biting into skins or seeds, dryness in the mouth immediately drinking water after eating produce not yet in their peak (such as santol)… Some people actually like bananas just before they are at their peak, so we do love ‘pakla’ in a tolerable way.

I wonder if there are creative Filipino recipes exploring this taste? I don’t suppose who should view the taste negatively. In minute amounts, it actually adds to the feel in the mouth.

By: penny

penny — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:12:31 +0000

i love duhat! my visayan grandparents had several trees in their backyard in dumaguete so whenever we visit in the summer, we’d climb the trees. but like kim & lyna, i love baligang (or amhi as we call it in naga) more. we used to climb or tukdol/sungkit it from the tree with all the black ants. my father is from calabanga, camsur & there used to be a lot of the baligang trees around his neighborhood with the sweetest & biggest variety i’ve ever seen & tasted. they’re all gone now & i miss them so. & it’s true, it’s rare to see them in the market. that’s always what i ask my friends for during my annual visits to bicol. one of my “to dos” is to find seedlings or saplings of the baligang tree & plant them in one of our vacant lots in bicol. it’s a shame to let this specie become extinct.