Comments on: Frozen Limes/Dayap/Biasong

By: WILVIN

WILVIN — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:29:34 +0000

I HAVE 9 POTTED AND BEARING FRUIT BIASONG @ P500.00/ POT… READY FOR HARVEST IN THE POT… CONTACT 09105783546 AT Bunawan, Agusan del Sur,, near at the biggest Captive Crocodile in the World

By: leira..

leira.. — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:46:26 +0000

hi guys..good day..
we have plenty of dayap trees here in bulacan and producing lots of dayap fruits..can you please help me to look for buyers? thanyou..pls contact me 09151425265

By: catalina

catalina — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:51:26 +0000

Cleaned out my freezer the other day and unearthed three & a half 1-gallon ziploc bags of dayap! Not quite forgotten, I always knew they were somewhere in there. When I see native limes in the market, just like you I buy the whole lot. I freeze them, instead of squeezing the juice out (which I do with kalamansi) because I use the rind for sweet treats such as leche flan, pastillas/dulce gatas, suspiros, gurgurya, etc.
I zest them with a microplane while the limes are still rock-solid, then let them soften a bit before juicing them for cooking or dipping sauce. I’ve used limes frozen more than 2 years and not once did I have to discard a single one. You’re right–they’re degraded a bit but the zest retains the same delightful fragrance and the juice, its flavor…not bad at all.

By: Ogden

Ogden — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:25:45 +0000

Mr. Marketman, can i ask you for a seeds of biasong from vietnam? i like to plant it in my backyard….. ü

By: 16 year old chef

16 year old chef — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:18:27 +0000

Where would I be able to buy limes in the Manila area, preferably the Green Hills or Mandaluyong area?

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:48:38 +0000

Gerry, I think what you are getting are green lemons… lemons grown in the North and elsewhere that do not turn that classic yellow orange. You can tell green lemons from true limes because of their taste and acidity. Besides dayap and similar breathern, we don’t have the larger persian limes here, or at least I have never seen them for sale here. We do grow lemons here, but they are green lemons…

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:30:00 +0000

I’ve been buying quite a lot of limes recently and am bit confused about green lemons. True dayap are key limes and are small and round in shape. Limes or “dayap” as referred to in wet markets are similar to lemons in shape. Could this be the Persian lime and not a green lemon?

The odd thing is the place where I get these limes do not sell lemons. I’m not even sure if lemons are locally grown, since they used to have stickers indicating they were imported. In any case, I have not seen the true dayap either in Farmer’s or Balintawak Market. I’ve seen the kaffir lime fruit in Seedling bank, and the people there told me it was rather useless since there was very little juice in it.

By: kuriousjorge

kuriousjorge — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:45:09 +0000

So, would anyone be able to tell me where exactly in Manila I’d be able to find some limes? I like making a Brazilian drink called a Capriosca (Vodka + Lemon + Lime + Sugar), and it doesn’t quite taste the same unless you use REAL lime.

By: Mera

Mera — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:23:10 +0000

You’re absolutely right Millet!!!! The kinilaw is to die for especially if with biasong…. I truly miss my beloved Butuan…..I wonder why our government (particularly the Agriculture Department) is not giving attention to have biasong and calamansi to be propagated and distributed in our county. We are really much behind in terms of culinary distinction worldwide that sometimes our dishes are linked to our neighboring countries, which, to my opinion is so unfair and so irritating to hear…. And by the way, almost everytime we have visitors trying to cover Philippine Dishes, the Department of Tourism always point Pampanga as the culinary center of the Philippines, that is not very TRUE…… The place is just thriving with fastfood chains and so little restaurants that specialize Filipino Food….. Foods that really represent the whole Philippine Archipelago….. You see, their foods mostly just reflects those that we borrowed/inherit from the Spaniards…….. no pun intended to our brothers and sisters from Pampanga….

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:20:30 +0000

Saw something like Lime Powder in S&R a few weeks ago. Imported from Malaysia. Wasn’t able to try it and I don’t know ho it compares to the fresh lime fruit but seems interesting.