as a korean I recommend eating chamoe(chamwe or korea melon) pulp with its seeds not clearing them. those seeds are the sweetest parts of this fruit. and also those seeds help your intestine work in the next morning 😀 if you have constipation
I should have watch this video before eating the melon. I love it. Next one I'll purchase I'll keep the seeds. Love the nutmeg notes in the flavour HUmmm Humm...
I bought one today in an Asian Market for .89 cents. Glad I watched your video. I will have it for breakfast tomorrow. I love Korean pears. I think I will like this fruit also. I lived in Korea for 13 months. I never had this melon when I lived in Korea.
Although I'm a raw vegan of 7 years and live mostly on fruits and some raw vegetables, somehow I never tried this fruit. Today I bought six of them for $2 because the store was getting rid of them to make space for another fruit. They are ripe and smell sweet and so I thought I'd eat all six of them as one meal today. I wanted to know how to eat it. So I looked up and came across your amazing video. Thanks Matt, your video has made me salivating and secreting insulin.
@@inthekitchenwithmatt just tried it today with my family! We tried woth seeds and without my family didn't like the seeds but other than that they really loved it!
My husband came back from a local farm (I live in New England) with a couple of these. I wasn't sure how they were supposed to be eaten. Thanks for this video, Matt. I was almost too scared to try it.✌
First-time visitor - liked and subscribed. My wife just cut open one of these Korean melons, and we both prefer eating it without the seeds. The eating experience is like a not-yet-ripe honeydue in terms of its crunchiness, and its flavor resembles a honeydue melon as well, at least to us. We also chose not to eat it with its peel - we have become used to peeling Korean apples/pears before eating them. Thanks for this video. My wife and I are Korean Americans, but this is the first time eating a Korean melon! 🙂
Awesome and thank you!! That is a good description of the taste. I do like it with the seeds better because that is where more of the sweetness is, but I also am very accustomed to eating fruit with seeds, haha.
When I hate this today for the first time the best way I could describe it is that it tastes JUST like a cantaloupe but with the texture of a really juicy raw potato.
I just tried a Korean Melon today myself and also really liked it. Because it was rather crunchy, like Matt says, I wondered if it was fully ripened. Apparently so. I like it enough that I will take it to a gathering of friends when we share light foods.
Just got a couple from a local farmer at the farmer's market in Maryland! Delicious. Tried one while watching your video and we were crunching right along with you :P thanks Matt!
I was searching for the korean melon benefits and your video came out. I am glad you ate the seeds and I watched on one korean health tv show that the peels are healthier and seeds are so called "vitamin pills"! I enjoyed watching your video.
I bought one this week on a whim and ALWAYS come to your channel when I purchase items I’ve never bought before😝. And here you are with another wonderful video. I haven’t eaten it yet but when I do I’m definitely eating it with the seeds.
I just bought one of these at an Asian market a couple days ago. It looks a little like a Delicata squash. I told friends it tasted like honey dew but with a crunch. I'll definitely buy more & will try eating the seeds. I'm going to dry the seeds & plant them. How it works out. Excellent melon!
I just tried a free sample at my local Korean grocery store today and it was amazing! As if a cantaloupe, apple and Asian pear had a baby! 🤠 Yum! 😋 Came to this video to see how to prepare it. 😄
Matt I grow them in my backyard. I saved seeds from one my Asian neighbor came me in 2020 and I’m now growing them. I like w/out skin seeds and cold so I refrigerate overnight before eating. I say it’s a cross between a pear and a honey dew melon. Save the seeds and grow them yourself!
I bought one of these and another different kind of melon at my loacal farm store. I found your video while i was looking it up because i forgot the name of it. So glad i did because otherwise i would have tossed the seeds! Excited to try it tomorrow with my kiddos! Thank you for the great video! Subscribed!
My wife is a Korean native and she usually doesn't eat anything sweet (total weirdo). But I saw this Melon at the Asian mart and wanted to try it. I was also gonna just jump into cutting into it and eating it but I found your video and it saved me the trouble of ruining my melon! I think its so tasty :) Thanks Matt!
Awesome!! Let me know how they taste. I haven't had them fresh only from the store. I have bought them quite a bit though haha. Someday when I have a yard I will plant the seeds.
That is awesome, Leann! I hope they grow! I just had some again a few days ago and didn't think to save any seeds, I just gobbled them up it was so good! lol
In The Kitchen With Matt Hello! My name is James and I was The same person that was writing those comments and I’m also the one that growing those Korean melon plants and there doing really good I will let you know in a month or so when they flower😁
You were the tiebreaker for my wife and I at breakfast. I said it tasted like a cucumber, she said a cantaloupe. You said both. On to another video. Lol.
Actually, the name of Korean melon is 참외. Korean melon is grown in some Northeast Asian countries. Although cultivated, the actual amount of nets is very small. Also, there is a difference in temperature and taste. Korean melons are distributed around the world every year in the summer months of June to August. Although the effects of Korean melons are diverse, they typically contain various vitamins such as constipation and anemia. Also, eating with seeds is strongly recommended!!
Yes, they are much better with the seeds as I mentioned in the video. And like I said in the video they are grown in many Asian countries. But they did originate in East Asia. And I already mentioned in the video they help against constipation. Did you actually watch the video? haha
Someone in southern California grew these and gave them to us less than ripe, ate like a cucumber. Definite lack of flavor. Just got a couple ripe ones. And look forward to growing some this spring. They very easy as far as care in growing
Chinese people call it "Xianggua", which means fragrant and sweet melon. I have loved it since I was young. In China, it is not only sweet but also very cheap. Welcome to China to taste delicious fruits and melons❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Carol just bought one, a Korean melon. How about cut in half, scoop out the seeds and fill w/ ice cream!? That;d be yummy, indeed! Chris, Calgary, AB, Canada
I can't wait now for my melons to ripen. My first time growing this summer. I love honeydew but can't eat the I hope these are fine. You look like you really enjoyed that :) Thanks for sharing.
Hey Matt. Bought some Korean Melon and thought I would look up a video to see how it was. Will do my own review once I do my H-Mart Haul. Hope you see it. I will compare flavors with you.
Hi Liza, I have more information about it on my website :) www.inthekitchenwithmatt.com/korean-melon. But basically it will feel heavy for its size, have a slight fruit smell to it when you smell the ends, and there will be a little give to it.
Awesome! Yeah I found an H-Mart here as well, actually across the street from my usual Asian market haha. So I have two Asian/International markets within a few blocks of each other.
I tried the asaki melon today. I didn't really like it. It was kind of like a watery cucumber mixed with a watery cantaloupe. I was expecting it to be sweeter. Maybe it wasn't picked when it was ripe enough. Did not really taste sweet like a honeydew. I did not eat the seeds. I will try them later. I like dragon fruit even though it's not that sweet
PLEASE DO NOT THROW AWAY THAT SEEDS. It is edible and more sweeter than body. Me and my all Korean friends eat those together. Those seeds is used as a remidy for indigestion. Just like common watermelons, if you eat that melons with seeds too much, you might have light diareah but it's not common. Recommend to eat less than 4 a day😂
I am a writer for a South Korean SBS broadcasting station. We are planning a broadcast on the theme of korean melon in our program. May I use this video as a broadcast material? It will be used after the source is indicated.
For some reason this video will not play. Tried last night and this morning with the same results. After intro the screen goes black and keeps buffering. All other videos play so now I'm bummed
Mmm I am not sure, Leann. Here in Arizona, I found it at my local Asian Supermarket. Probably depends on where in Utah you are. I imagine there is an Asian supermarket in Salt Lake City area. Not sure if there is on in the Orem/Provo area. It has been so long since I lived there haha. I don't know if Maceys or Smiths would carry them.
