Hunting the Extraordinary NIPA FRUIT! (and the strange ways that you eat it) 

Can you try the whitebark raspberry next

Hello, have you considered maybe the Arak drink tastes like palm wine?

Similar juice is produced from date trees in South East Asia e.g. Bangladesh, India. It tastes amazing when freshly collected at night. Hope you can try it.

Looks like a skinless green grape!

The sap seemed a lot more worthwhile harvesting, than the fruit did.

Ack, cringe, please don't say things like that.

@@edgarburlyman738 why is that cringe, wdym?

@@bobf823 Comparing wholesome youtubers to creepy travel channel dudes

​@@edgarburlyman738 You think AB is creepy? You need to GTFO.

@@bobf823 He lives in a suburb surrounded by "live, laugh, love" wall art, i.e. the type of person Bourdain rightfully hated.

How can one man look like both a child in a cuckold when he smiles?

No one ever

hello I actually eat fruits

they eat them around that area too and are supposed to be quite good

@@WeirdExplorer I wonder if they taste like catfish.

Thank you for giving me the term, I was like wtf are those giant tadpoles

​@yesterdaydream they're quite similar in that they're amphibious but to the best of my knowledge they aren't amphibians

@ 3:34 is that what we call a mudskipper? A fish that walks on land? Edit: I should have watched until the end and I would have found my answer. I often pause a video in the middle just to see what other people are saying.

He goes to Malaysia often.

May he rest in peace

Yeah it really looked like it's not worth the hassle lol.

@@barryschalkwijk9388 I mean, old apple were tiny and smelled like wood. You probably could improve things like seize.

@@blueberryiswar interesting, yeah i guess it could be cultivated, but then still there's a lot more promising options growing in the same area.

@@barryschalkwijk9388 If you don’t have modernity this fruit is a life saver.

😱

If you notice he is swinging the back of the machete, the blunt side, so he can hopefully dislodge a fruit from the bunch. His hand is there to hopefully catch it before it plops into the river and floats away.

@@Katalowins Take a closer look. There is a notch cut out on the dull side. Which can be clearly seen when he is swinging it and when he cuts open the fruit. Dude was swinging with the sharp side, with is hand right there.

Thanks! It a beautiful place. I had duku and langsat side by side in East Malaysia some years ago: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xS-EfPnRJJ4.html

For some reason it's not common in northeast US here, even though we have lots of birch! But we DO have "Birch Beer", which is made from the bark instead of the sap. It's not alcoholic, just a soda like root beer. I bet birch juice would taste great, I wish my family & I would have tried making it when I was growing up from the big paper birch tree we had. Sadly, that tree's long gone.

I have had birch beer. It tastes so much like root beer, but way better. I wish I could find it again in the stores here. A rare treat indeed.

Birch sap is very delicious and refreshing, like the European version of coconut water

Looks just like maple sap

I don't like it fresh, I don't like it strongly fermented. Best it's two three days of light fermentation

That's because the etymology of the name "attap tree" comes from the use of its leaves to make roofing (attap/atap in Malay). Which is why it's somewhat funny when we consider where the word "rumah attap" comes from since on the face of it, it simply means "house with roof" instead of "house with nipah/attap leaves roofing).

Likewise in coastal Maharashtra, India. Fermented coconut neera/alcohol is called "Maadi" while the fermented palm neera/alcohol is called "taadi".

@@ameythegooner Kerala coconut alcohol is called Kallu and palm one is called Charayam(I think ... not sure about the palm one)

Ah peace!

Maybe that's why it tastes awful.

The more likely explanation is that Tuak is the general word for alcoholic drinks in an older version of Malay whereas Arak is a loan word from Arabic. At least in Iban (a proto-Malay group), we use the word tuak both as the specific name for the alcoholic beverage made from rice and also as a general word to mean alcoholic drinks. Also the word moonshine is not correct in this context as moonshine are alcoholic beverages produced illegally ( "as the moon shines" aka in the dark). Although home-brewing is illegal in Malaysia, the law provides provision that allows the natives of Sarawak and Sabah to make them.

Soldier from tf2?!

@@traphimawari7760 trap from himawari?!

Where do you live that you found it?

extra globular globules

I knew 🕴

Mangosteen is tricky, when u pressed the fruit it’s rock solid hard, don’t bother to open, it’s spoil. It should be medium soft that easily cut open or press & peel open. And when you open and see the yellow milky sap in the flesh of the fruit, don’t eat those, it’s yucky. Only eat those that looks fluffy white and plump, some turn transparent and harden. Also no good the transparent one. The best is fluffy white soft sweet ones. It’s so far the best tasting fruit, and full of nutrients too.

Someone needs to paint one for a laugh

Wow, thanks!

just ignore the occasional cursing at a fruit and this is true 👍

@@WeirdExplorer Completely acceptable.😂😂👍👍

ב''ה, think you meant tuac; the agua miel is sort of a beer or wine, right? Then arak is generally distilled liquor, so generally a liquor/vodka/moonshine (though the middle east will dose this up with a healthy amount of anise or anise oil, as you might recognize from ouzo). While I'm in this thread, I wonder how much sulfur comes through the plant and how much from the air around it if you've ever spent time in marshlands.. and while I'm not sure I can specifically recommend it, that note reminds of "jaljira" or "jaljeera," a paradoxically refreshing beverage (non-alcoholic) made with a bunch of sulfur salts reminiscent of a day in a marsh, or perhaps of the Ganges and everyone floating around in it. It *should* just be from chemical salts and happen to taste like that, y'all...