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.

By: Benjing

Benjing — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:39:49 +0000

MM, you’re so cruel! I have not had duhat for ages…I can only dream about it. By August/September, blackberries will be in season here in the Midwest (USA). I have a blackberry bush in my backyard and I harvest the biggest and sweetest blackberries. If I pick them before they’re too soft and they’re still a bit sour, then it’s almost like duhat. Of course, I sprinkle it with Maldon salt (which is very much like the coarse salt from Cavite) and shake it. Thanks so much for the beautiful pics!

By: Mar Muyco

Mar Muyco — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:08:29 +0000

Wow, lomboy! It is such a wonderful fruit!
It sure reminds us of our childhood, mine in Iloilo. My brother brought some seeds and grew them here in San Diego, California. 15 years later, they have grown into big trees but never had fruits. It would have been nice if it does have fruits because the crown of the tree is about 15 feet wide. anyway, the flavor of the fruit can never be replicated but I think the closest fruit from here would be Cherries, which we have plenty of, especially at the Cherry Festival near Palm Springs in June.

By: ike ledesma

ike ledesma — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:10:53 +0000

anyone out there can tell me what primary vitamin contents qre there sa duhat or lumboy, and what is the english name?

By: roszhien

roszhien — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:45:53 +0000

huhu..kakagutom..hehe.. lomboy rin tawag namin diyan dito sa south cotabato..hmMm..by the way our province is known as Fruit Basket of the Philippines.. we have many fruit plantations here..hehe..

By: jet

jet — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:33:58 +0000

It’s been yeeeeeears since I had duhat or lomboy as we called it in Zambales. You’re makin’ my eyes water with happiness at the sight of the beautiful dark pearl of sourly goodness covered in glistening white NaCl. ahhhhhhhh. It’s killin me man.

So, May/June is duhat season? I guess I’m gonna have to schedule my trip to PI next year around this time of the year. Thanks.