GAC FRUIT : How to COOK and EAT it! - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 345 

Check out the first time I tried Gac in Thailand here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j2wKjnZ4pUE.html

Your channel is one of the true hidden gyms of RU-vid. I found it a while back, and now I watch your videos before I go to bed. It may sound weird, but something about your content is so interesting while being extremely relaxing at the same time. I have recommended your channel to all of my friends and o hope that you keep on growing and eventually reach your “impossible task” of tasting all of the fruits. Thank you for the amazing content, best wishes!

I'm Vietnamese and you pronounced it just fine. You can pronounce it like "soy gak." Xôi Gấc has little tiddles that makes pronunciation different.

OMG, your labored pronunciation of the Asian name for gac fruit was absolutely hiLARIOUS, Jared! I laughed out loud, and my son asked me to be quiet, cause he’s working on an assignment!! 🤣😂

our guy is SPONSORED. make that money, weird fruit dude

That rice looks gorgeous. I believe I will make some in the shape of a dinosaur.

This has to be the most photogenic fruit, it's freaking gorgeous. Immediately your mind thinks it will be amazing

this is probably one of the strangest channels I've ever found at 3AM, but i'm loving it

“And this has water” *splashes it everywhere to prove he’s not lying*

Bro you just made ketchup and rice

The force at which that jar was slammed onto the table is one I’ve never witnessed before.

This was absolutely hilarious. Think the cat situation might have something to do with every flat surface being covered with bananas?

Degac that gac fruit jared! I'm one of those anti tomato people. I grew 17 varieties of tomatos to try and find one I'd like...they all tasted like tomatoes and I hated them all.

Gac fruits are under genus Momordica which is under family Cucurbitoidea, the family of gourds, cucumber, melon, and squash. That's probably where the gourdish flavor comes from.

Watermelon also contains lycopene.

you are so eccentric and so smart

9:46 Wow, your cat has very pretty eyes. Blue and green.

so Gac juice + lemon + vodka = a Bloody Gac or Gac'y Mary...

I loved this video, you should do more cooking with exotic fruits!!

I bet that would go really nicely with "pulled pork" style jackfruit.

Xôi Gấc...Vietnamese sweet rice. 😍😍 love your video. This is suppers fruit and good for eyes.😍😍

For some reason "Gac Juice" sounds really dirty to me.

This is one of the most entertaining and awesome videos I’ve ever seen on your channel (and of course I’ve seen them all!)! I loved the extra length and the extra doses of CAT! Great humor and super interesting to boot!

"two tablespoons of oil" *GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG*

Yo i see that mighty taco shirt!!! Much love from the 716!!!!

This is a delicacy in the Klingon Empire.

This is the best video of yours I've seen. You seem to have opened up to the camera more. I notice you put extra creative and logistical effort into this one. You've really got the personality for RU-vid!

Your cat’s eyes are beautiful!

Now i know I've said this before in the past but me and my fiancé LOVE watching your videos, honestly its so original, nothing is staged or over promoted, you just do it right man. Keep it up bro!

This is awesome! We actually just made Xôi Gấc to celebrate the Vietnamese New Year. It is an interesting taste...definitely not what we expected. It is more like a vegetable. Thank you for sharing!! We couldn't find a baby jackfruit where we are.

@12:58 "David Bowie is ..." Is what?! ... in this bag? ... right behind you?

Dude you're really doing some valuable science. Many of these fruits haven't been properly documented and collected and described in the depth you do. Consider making a book from all of your travels eventually.

Nice cookware! Lovely recipe I want to try. I kind of put off watching this because of how the last GAC went and I'm glad I watched cuz this was awesome thank you.

Love this style of video and commentary! Audibly laughed multiple times. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to some of your future trips this summer and next winter!

Come on, who doesn't have bananas growing around their place? If you were anywhere near Reykjavík I could give you all the banana leaves you could want. ;) Your cat is beautiful, BTW. Love those eyes!

Thank you for going to all that trouble and work to let me know I never ever need or want to xD

Jared, I know this is old, but obviously I've now been watching your content for the past few days. LOVE IT! Seriously. Fruit has always been my passion (growing up with farmer parents). Just had to mention my Mighty Taco love, lol. A very few % of the population knows about it. Nice 🌯

You need a basket to make sticky rice fam ✌

This feels like it's cataloging your slow descent into madness

As a kid I didn't like tomatoes. As an adult I was too anxious to ask for no tomatoes on my burgers, and too lazy to take them out, so I ate them anyway. Now I love tomatoes and can't imagine not enjoying them.

Love the channel . I have watched every single video you've ever put out. Good job.👍🏻

I love your sense of humor. It definitely adds an extra bit of entertainment value to the videos.

9:46 - Cat's expression: "I'm just lying up here dude. What makes you think I was hiding?"

Love your channel man. Lol I even have a strange aversion to most fruits that I’ve always tried to hide because let’s face it, that’s pretty weird. Even I love watching your videos though and have even tried new fruits and have found so much to find entertaining on your channel. Keep it up man 👍🏼

LOVED the comments you provoked! You have the funniest chill viewers.

Your videos are soooo enjoyable. I love this channel.

man, who could resist giving rice a good ol' slap

Wow! Such a simple and easy recipe is good to make in a month of Sundays!

So much work! Probably would be better with pandan, cilantro, pepper, galangal or lemongrass.

I live in Việt Nam. I see vietnamese words “xoi hav” and Vietnamese sticky rice in your video, that is so exciting. Your channel contents many knowledges. Like it!

Your Videos are Freakin Awesome. You are One of the most Interesting Creators on RU-vid By Far!!! You have a Very Charismatic Persona. And Your Curiosity and Sharing Heart Makes You a Tour de Force in RU-vid.

The best way to pour stuff into a jar is to use a canning funnel. It's a big funnel with a big opening to fit in a standard Mason jar. Great for transferring soup etc. to old spaghetti sauce jars for storage without making a mess!

the maggot crawling around in that first gac in thailand still gets to me...

one quick thing can you use corn husk like when your steaming tamales instead of the wax paper some sweet corn husk is like the banana leaf flavor wise.

Looks a lot different than the Klingon gac served in an episode of Star Trek, Second Generation.

Wow I didint know rokakaka fruits were real!!!!

Cabbage leaves work well when steaming smaller things or sticky things

Some tips from my Granma after I showed her this video: a. If you prepare for your family meal, you don't always need to remove the seed from the pod if it is too hard for you, you can steam the seed with the rice for decoration and remove them when you eat, much easier (chewing on the cooked membrane is fun). Ofcourse if you make it for someone, or for sale and want it too look good, removing the seed before is ok. b. You don't need to fry the gac pulp, but you may want to mix with a little white liquor and leave rest, for better coloring, final rice will look more red. c. she complimented on sitting the rice in water, and usage of steamer. (She is mad though of the bootleg Thai rice trying to impersonate Vietnamese rice with the Vietnamese text. )

at the 39 second mark pause the video and look at the left piece of the Gac fruit and you can see that it has a worm in it wiggling around in there.

Really like your videos it makes me wanna try new fruits and such. Also your cat is so beautiful

Finding your videos has made me become more experimental with fruits and vegetables with my 5yr old son.

5:18 Jared whyyy 😂😂😂

I love all your videos, but any video with Vostok in it makes it twice as good. Also, I hadn't noticed that she has eyes of different color.

After seeing the "praying hands bananas" I took a look at Miami Fruit's website. Everything looks amazing!! Very cool to see so many different exotics available in the US!

5:18 ..................... The splash ......... I'm dead hahahah

The way he holds cups is like a 19th century nobleman at a Prince’s going away for college (in those times it would apprenticeship) and every time he takes a drink he has to say something very pretentious and make a joke about how rich he is in a very British accent along with a random French quote followed by a group laugh such as “thou silk dinner jacket is scrumptious. La vie en Rose muahahah”

Love this

I love how you’ve been sponsored multiple times but the fruit reviews always seem genuine, even when you don’t like it

protip: xoi does not need to be soaked overnight, I pour a ton of boiling water into the ricecooker pot with rice and in like an hour it's good and ready to cook and it needs less water after that since it's almost par-cooked. extra protip: use broth or coconut milk for even fattier, richer xoi lol with your gac juice, does not sound good

Loved the video. I always read the comments, they are calming also. No hate.

I want one of those so badly right now I think I'll buy one just because they look cool

The skin of the gac fruit reminds me of the balls you would always play with at the store, yet never take home.

After all the time and effort it took to make that, I would have to more than just like it. That was a procedure! 😮

Yum! Deep fried hand…my favourite!

Lycopene is not considered essential, because it can't be converted into vitamin A like beta-carotene. Vitamin A is the essential nutrient in question, and beta-carotene is the standard provider of it. Lycopene and beta-carotene are both considered carotenes, hence the confusion. People often assume that carotenes all have health benefits, but they don't. There's actually a huge variety. Lycopene specifically has very little effect on human health, whereas beta-carotene IS essential to many diets around the world. Canthaxanthin however, is another carotene as well: a very strong antioxidant. It's also the main ingredient in tanning pills. Talk about getting thrown for a loop. (Tanning pills aren't nearly as bad as people think they are by the way, but definitely not worth a fake tan, of all things.) Gac fruit actually has both lycopene and beta-carotene in massive quantities. Gac has 100-300 times more lycopene than tomatoes, and about 10 times more beta-carotene than carrots. Interesting things about lycopene: -it doesn't dissolve in water or alcohol, but will dissolve in cooking oil (triglycerides), among other things, mostly inedible, like chloroform or hexane. -it melts at 351F or 177C -lycopene is the reason tomato sauces dye plastic containers orange. You can remove that stain with heavily diluted bleach. -numerous clinical studies have been and are still being performed on lycopene because of possible medical claims surrounding it. None of them have found any evidence that lycopene has any effect on our health.

🤣🤣🤣 Great pronunciation 👍 🤣🤣🤣 Super cute. ☺️

you should just dump them all in together, then use a spoon to stir it up, then pick the seeds out. If used to cook xoi gac(pronounced like soy), put some salt and rice wine before you stir them up, you can leave the seeds in and mix with the sticky rice then just steam, ONLY add sugar after the rice is cooked, add a some drops of coconut oil if you want to. mix well before you turn off the fire.

Such an interesting and elaborate recipe sheesh. Hope it's great, I'm sure it was.

But... Will It Ketchup?!

That is the most gorgeous fruit I've ever seen holy crap

I think I am just as amused by the Mighty Taco shirt. Drunk Buffalo food versus a really interesting fruit dish.

ive been snowed in my house and ive been binging your content its so good

It’s pronounced zoi gak . With a hard K

Ah okay, so this is related to Spiny Gourd (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momordica_dioica). Which again related to bitter melon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momordica_charantia). But Gac or Spiny Gourds are not bitter, even they can be sweet when ripe. We eat Spiney Gourd when it's not ripe. The green ones can be sliced and fried, tastes really good. Add some tomato sauce and you can eat it like snacks.

That cat looks cool with one green eye and one blue eye!!

You got to love this guy’s interpretation of gac & his Asian cooking skills, lol.

Wonder if you can use it instead of tomatoes. A friend of mine can't eat tomatoes because of health reasons. He misses all the tomato foods pizza, pasta. Going to ask him to ask his doctor if he can use it instead.

That actually not how we usually do it. We mix raw gac with rice, not the cook one and with the whole seed in there because it suck a pain to do separate it by hand. And we usually add coconut milk. Beside it suppose to be a sweet treat so i have never seen anyone eating it with ham before.

I've been binge-watching your videos the last couple days, and that's a new cat! Did... the other cat, the other cat, the gray one... Did she pass away? And thank you for making these videos. These help me with my anxiety!

I wonder if tamale husks would work as a substitute for banana leaves.

Gac is in the same family as pumpkins, melons and cucumbers, Cucurbitaceae. Hence the similar aroma. As it is of the genus Momordica (M. cochinchinensis), it is a close relative of the bitter melon or bitter cucumber (Momordica charantia) that the people of Okinawa call goya or nigauri, in the rest of Japan. I have already cooked and ate it. Believe me, it is VERY bitter! Just in time: goya seeds are toxic, the edible part is the fruit flesh. I don't know about gac. And congratulations, for this video and all the series!

Loved this video. Not being sarcastic here but I was totally gripped with suspense as to how it would turn out. Thanks. Not sure if i would actually try GAC but if i become adventurous...i know how to cook it. Thanks.

Sounds interesting! I wonder if I'd be able to find it in Chicago

Your cat is my cats doppelganger!❤

You deserve way more subs.

Ooh my dear lord your CAT 🐈 SOOOO ADORABLE HE MADE MY DAY❤❤❤❤❤❤

"after im done using this paste, I'm gonna want to take this oil and rub it all over my body" hahahaha

The dream big mug was a genius visual gag dude

If you have a domed mesh strainer, I might just dump the seeds in there and mush them around with a spoon until the pulp strains through.

Lol you sounded like a cat coughing up a fire ball! 😂 I missed your vids. Thanks RU-vid! Not.