TAMBIS: This Adorable Crispy Fruit Looks Like a Toy (Syzygium aqueum)
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- Episode: 761 Tambis
Species: Syzygium aqueum
Location: Bangkok, Thailand & Antananarivo Madagascar
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0:00-3:50 What does tambis fruit taste like?
3:50-7:24 Pickled tambis fruit 
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Here's a fruit related to this one that tastes just like rose water: ruclips.net/video/HShFg-lt0vE/видео.html
That is the one Syzygium which I don't enjoy eating. To me its like eating perfume. I have one growing in a pot but I may end up just gifting it to someone else.
“That Time I Reviewed a Pickled Tambis that I Didn’t Know Was Pickled” is now my new favorite anime title
"That's gotta be pickled, otherwise I don't know how it would taste... so pickled."
What a wordsmith. Haha.
"Shut up, bird!"
like my neighbor, there a bird that sang all morning in tree next his window, it was very happy melody, he told bird shut up. I was like. 😲 no everyone can have this gift from nature, it once a lifetime and he negate it. I found it been a sin.
@@Brancaalice Don't get me wrong. Birdsong can be nice, unless you need silence for what you're doing, like sleeping or recording a video.
I loved how confused you were with respect to that pickled fruit. May god bless you with more confusions. Its enjoyable :)
Yeah, Syzygium is a huge genus. We have a number of those species down here in Australia where they are better known as 'lillypillies'. The smaller of those fruits looked a lot like one of those species, which makes sense since they're closely related. The species I grew up with looked more like a magenta-coloured cherry with the same kind of nipple and white flesh. The taste is kind of strangely compelling and refreshing - reminds me of the smell of geranium leaves, but is very juicy and pleasantly sweet, which adds to the refreshment. Their flesh is probably almost as juicy as a watermelon.
I suspect the Tambis would resemble it somewhat in flavour.
Interesting sidenote (for those who do not know), cloves are the dried buds of another Syzygium species native to the Indian subcontinent.
Yeah! Lillypillies are good: ruclips.net/video/dt6u666KC_E/видео.html
The tambis is milder and less floral tasting. Cloves are native to Indonesia and they do produce a tiny little fruit too that is supposed to have a spicy taste. I'm hoping to find them on my next trip.
@@WeirdExplorer Interesting, I expected that cloves would produce a fruit, but as I've heard nothing about it, I assumed it can't be that remarkable - but probably worth a try at least once. Cloves did get to Europe via the Indian subcontinent and maritime silk route, so the ancients assumed they came from there.
Anyhow, thanks for sharing your interesting link about lillypillies - I had wondered if you had tried them, so I wasn't too surprised to see that you had. The ones you tried looked basically the same as what I had grown up with and I have only ever eaten them fresh myself. I've definitely heard of lillypilly jam, but I've never tried it. Australian native fruit jams are hard to come by even down here!
Frankly, we have so many species of fruits and nuts that are underexploited down here as food sources, e.g., sandalwood species. I expect you've heard of quandongs (not sure if you've tried them yet), but they are another rich and versatile native fruit. On an interesting sidenote, Indian Sandalwood also makes an edible fruit, but that is usually ignored in favour of its valuable wood.
I could go on and on about our ignored botanicals down here, but I had better stop now...😆
@@randangbalado oh, thank you for sharing that info with us! I wondered if it would taste something like cloves. To the rest of us here, it would be an 'exotic fruit'. But to you over there living in its native range, it's just a mundane and underwhelming little fruit. 😆
I would have never have guessed cloves are related
6 people around you, and you're still filming with one and cutting fruit with the other 😂
😂
This is THE way
Never change Jared, never change
froot groop is wonderful
The birds tweeted your shame, leaving you with a mouthful of vinegar. But now you know the bland, slightly floral taste of confession and absolution! What a twist of a flashback story arc
I love this pickled fruit. We actually makes pickle 'pickled fruit'. We add brown sugar, chili peppers, shrimp paste, tamarind, and salt. We put in the freezer and eat later. Yummmm
Sounds great!
What a fun alien toy, and edible too! Advanced alien technology explains the pickling in the bonus section…
ohhh grew up eating this. though Tambis was a local term for our region in the Philippines. The more broader Filipino name for it is Makopa.
In malayalam, we call these fruits under an umbrella term "Champa". There are so many varieties of it available here.
I think Thai borrowed that word. We call them 'Chompoo'.
'Champa' in your place, 'jambu' in my place.
In Malaysia we had a tree of the big one right on the corner of the street where my house was. They called it a water apple or rose apple. I believe it's a Syzygium Malaccense and is sometimes referred to as a Malay Apple.
We call the small one "jambu" in Sri Lanka. I think the big one is a verity of "Syzygium samarangense", we call it "pini jumbu". There is also a white fruit with almost no seeds/seed cavity called "rata jambu"/"වැලි ජම්බු".
The small ones look like madhatter peppers. A nice sweet pepper when ripe.
Of course the big fruit is a wax apple, the one Syzygium species that is commercialized.
In my place, that Tambis fruit is called Jambu, some of them are sweet, but there are some if them are so sour. And that fruit often seen in Indonesian Salad that known as Rujak.
The second big red food, in my place is called Jambak. If you lucky, you will get the sweet flavour, but sometimes. You can find the other taste.
Each time I'm amazed how many kinds there are... Nature's incredible
Almost looks like the wax apple we have here on Saint Croix, the smaller one
Ah yes another Syzygium nice
The bird is mocking me... Must be a mockingbird 🤣🤣❤️ from Greece!!!
Cool video. Here in the Caribbean we refer to those as water apple. I'm growing three different types of the otaheite apple (large red, regular purple, purple/black). I've also got lipote and its close relative from Indonesia, hagis, timika, fruta di misterio, blue lilly pilly, white java plum, purple java plum, white/green/red wax jambu, ruruhi sulawesi and coolamon all under propagation in various stages of maturity from just beginning to sprout up to fully mature specimens. I need a bigger farm.
incredible collection of syzagiums. hope they grow well for you 🙏
@@WeirdExplorerThanks, I'm doing my best to get them all into fruit production.
Where in the Caribbean do you live? I'm from Martinique but I moved away. When I go back it would be so cool to know which closeby place has so many varieties of wax apples!
@@lanasinapayen3354I am on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. I am trying to collect as many as I can to plant out and get into production, as my goal is to add to the diversity of fruits which can be successfully and practically grown here.
The Caribbean ones do seem slightly different to the rose apple in Indonesia etc. pomerac is one of my favourite fruits ever, but I thought they tasted more like hibiscus than rose and had more cottony texture
The big one is something I am wild about. I can go through them very quickly. The flavour reminds me of rose water.
I love Rose-apples. They smell so nice.
In the Philippines, there are two species of Syzygium that are very similar: S. aqueum and S. samarangense, tambis and macopa, respectively. The former is more common. People in Luzon, however, only know macopa. People in the Visayas and Mindanao know the difference. I remember eating macopa flowers when I was kid. I remember the sweet-sour taste!
First off I love this channel second I love those! I was introduced to the water Apple in Hong Kong a couple months ago and I am addicted to them. They're not super flavorful but they are so hydrating!
we have similar fruit here in indonesia its called jambu air
usually we ate it with sauce mixed from palm sugar, chili, and tamarind
In Thailand, I believe we call the Tambis "ชมพู่แก้ว/ ชมพู่พลาสติก/ชมพู่เทียน" which means "Glass/Plastic/Candle rose-apple", it's commonly planted as an ornamental plant but the fruit can also be used in decorative carvings.
A variety of the things grew wild where i grew up , along river bank. The one that looks like an upside down Close Encounters of the Third Kind mountain.
We called mountain apples. Just grew wild, we'd paddle up to the trees and just pick 15-20 of them and eat 'um on the spot while catching tilapias with bamboo poles and cork floaters with hook & earthworms.
The things would be just falling off the trees ripe, all over the ground.
High upriver, (paddling a homemade canoe) we'd also eat wild riverbank bananas, lilikoi (passion fruit), and guavas, and there were some papaya trees.
I just love this channel. Have to try this fruit :D
I live with my grandparents and we had a Tambis tree in front of our yard as I grew up. I dont really ate that much back then but I did like it. Now I miss it since it died due to multiple environmental factors
Has it been a while or do i just not get notifications anymore....anyway good to see you.
I'll just be posting on Sundays until I get caught up in videos. I should be back to posting twice a week in April
Very interesting video. Wow all the fruit experts in one place. Pretty cool. And Steven too! I feel spoiled with fruit guys. Wish I could taste that. It looks neat.
Syzygiums look so cool! Thank you.
Wishing that they were available in my part of the world. I enjoy trying new fruits.
you are one of my favourite RUclipsrs weirdexplorer
Hey Jared, hope all is well!. Been living in North Jersey for 2 months now and my work in NYC is going well for the time being. I have such a love/hate relationship with the NE. But since I was raised in the Jersey/Philly area I still have attachment and nostalgia for the area😅.. Anyway, keep up the great work. Been a joy to watch your videos throughout the years!
This does not look like Syzygium aqueum- the watery rose apple is distinctly watery and has a light flavour. This look like the java apple/wax apple-Syzygium samarangense.
Just to add, Syzygium malaccense has purple flowers. Syzygium jambos (the OG rose apple) smells strongly like roses.
Great channel, great person
You finally did it. You reached my favorite fruit and final thing I’ve been waiting for you to get to (without it being pickled). Okay, perhaps not exactly the specific cultivar this time, but similar. The pink ones are my favorite. Those big ones usually tastes like crispy disapointing cucumber mixed with slight perfume. The small one I’ve likened to slightly sour wild strawberry flavor in crispy and delicous packaging. Now I gotta figure out something else you haven’t tried to look forward to you stumbling upon.
Trinidad in the caribbean the bigger one is Pomerac,the flowers on the tree can be put in salads to garnish
Great video as always! You should plan a trip to Australia, we have a lot of interesting native plants, some of which are already small industries, but many others that have great potential in the future. It would be really interesting for you to taste test some of the established and newly emerging crops. It could also possibly help these industries raise awareness of our great native food trees. Off the top of my head these ones would be great for you to review:
Atherton oak (Athertonia diversifolia)
Davidson plum (Davidsonia jerseyana and D. johnsonii) and Ooray (Davidsonia pruriens)
Tasmanian pepperberry (Tasmannia lanceolata)
Finger lime (Citrus australasica)
Desert lime (Citrus glauca)
Feel free to reach out to me, I could put you in contact with people who grow these plants and others. I'm a crop pollination researcher so I know a lot of people in different growing regions that could be contacted.
The biggest one is known in Brazil as Jambo. Love it!
We referred to them as water apples in Costa Rica. Delicious!
There is a pink variety. They're small fruits, and they're less sweet than the big red one that you had but it's a bit more floral. It's fairly common in Sri Lanka but they also have a very short season.
Looks like an Aji Dulce or a Trinidad Perfume seasoning pepper pod shape.
You remind me of link from good mythical morning. What a collaboration that could be..👊🤔
Here in the Philippines we call the big one "Macopa"... Google tells me it's "Syzygium samarangense"
I'm a simple man. I see a Weird Fruit Explorer video, shout out "OOooo a *insert genus*" and click immediately.
The small one is a wild variety with white or red/pink colors.
Tambis (Syzygium aqueum) and Macopa (Syzygium samarangense) are both found in the Philippines. At first glance, both fruits look alike. To differentiate the two, you have to look at the fruits’ skin and shape. Tambis is smaller, has a bell-like shape, and the skin is bright red to pink. Macopa is larger with a pear-like shape and has a deeper red color.
These look like the wax apples you'd find in India (white jamun?)
The first one looks like the red variety of rose apple/wax apple (syzygium samarangense). In China they typically eat it as tanghulu. Dianxi Xiaoge did a whole video featuring it and how it's eaten in Yunnan
the cronchiness is so nice
In my country we call the bigger one pommerac. Delicious
We called that also Tambis here in Negros Occidental, Philippines.
The big ones looked enticing, like cannelés de Bordeaux.
This is a very common fruit to be found in South Indian homes. Its called "Champanga" over here. You can shake the tree filled with these and they will rain all over you.
The big fruit we have in hawaii we call mountainapples
I can't recall if you ever did that, but I think a very nice video idea would be to make onf of edible fruits that have poisonous lookalikes!
fruit looks like a toy... my brain went into the creative side on 😂😂😂
ends up checking the video...
Oohhh... is Air Jambu we called in Malaysia
The Small One resembles Pitanga, and the other one is called Jambo in Brazil.
In Malaysia it is called jambu bertih. It is favoured for its small size, flavour and hardy against insect pest.
We called this fruit " jamrul" in Bangladesh ❤
OMG THIS IS YOUR 1K VIDEO😝😆😆😆😆
oh! you're right!
whats the plump plant on that guys balcony
Makopa this in Philippines.mountain apple in Hawaii.
I feel like usually when you hear of something being pickled it’s almost always a vegetable and not a fruit but here in The Philippines they do pickled mangos 🥭 😊
Last time I was in the Philippines I had pickled green mangoes. they were very good!
Different subject Jared, but have you seen Adam Shafran's recent video on his pitangatuba/pitomba hybrid? He did a taste testing of it. Just by chance I came across the video on youtube right after I planted about eight juvenile pitangatubas in very close proximity to my most mature pitomba tree. The pitomba is blossoming more profusely this year than it ever has before. It will be interesting to see if any natural cross pollination occurs in the future.
oh nice! no I haven't seen it but that would be a killer combo
@@WeirdExplorerTake a look if you get a chance. On another note: I was recently gifted a plant of what is referred to as the "wine pear" from the island of Cayman Brac. It's like an apple cactus but I've never seen it before here on Grand Cayman. I'm not sure but I think it may be unique and indigenous only to Cayman Brac. The fruit itself is yellow and smooth skinned, white fleshed with black seed. My friend brought a fruit and gave me and wow was it delicious. The taste profile is in my humble opinion superior to any of the dragon fruits I've had the opportunity to grow or taste, including the yellow pitaya. Needless to say I'm happy to have two pieces of the cactus under propagation. Further research is needed to see if it is actually unique to Cayman Brac's ecosystem. There are a few fruit bearing wild trees over there which I have never heard of before, including one called "snot berry". There is an excellent bush guide over there really knowledgeable about what exists there. If you ever make your way down here I'll put you in touch with each other if you would like.
I grow a little ''warm'' (because it isn't very hot) pepper that looks a lot like that little guy.
Jambu "wudel"
or
water apple + belly button (i know its weird, but somehow it small and had a similar look to a belly button😅)
i have eaten those many times, even my neighboor had them on their yard.
We call the big one "Moutain apple" in Hawaii. Seams it was a cannoe plant of the Hawaiians.
so the pickled tambis is dried after pickling and sold without the liquid? didn't know it was possible to do that!
Lol! It’s pronounced as Tum-bees. 😊
The green variety is twice as sweet as the pink ones.
The bell-like (stout) ones are the female fruits while the one described as “cartoonish” or mushroom cap, without a seed is the male fruit.
Edit: the ones we have in Region 6 of the Philippines are sweet and never tastes like “pickled” rose apples.
Pomerac in my country. And they taste good. I don’t know about the rosé flavor?
Aren't they both aqueum? In my country they're all called water apples - aqueum just means water, so potentially any of those could have been named this one.
we call it jambu nerale in india, Malay apple
Some are very sweet especially the big variety. The smaller ones normally more tart. But they are a mix bag, some are bland, some re really sweet, etc.
I'm from the Philippines and I've never seen nor heard of that before. It does look very similar to what we call as makopa which is lighter in color and is more bell shaped
Guessing you're from Luzon. Tambis is common in VisMin.
Looks like a hat for a pixie lol
Yet another thing I grow on Farmville 2 and had no idea what the real fruit is.
Its called Jambakka in Kerala
In India we call water apple
莲雾。有一股塑料味道。口感很清爽。东南亚常见水果。
Syzygium species get pretty complicated, particularly since they can hybridize.
Ahh! I Want to eat them!
I always wonder if the 'Smarter Everyday' he thanks at the end of nearly every video is the same 'Smater Everyday' that is a huge RUclipsr.
Second fruit is rose apple. At least that the English translation of the vietnamese fruit
Wax Jambu maybe?
They look like weird cherries 🍒
The bigger one is most likely a Makopa (Syzygium samarangense)
That could almost be a chilli pepper. 😅
Tell me dude, have you ever eaten a strange, exotic fruit only to realize that it was intensely hallucinogenic?
Malaysian we call it jambu
Jambu air, water guava :)
That’s a rose water apple… find it in Japan
I think the word you're looking for in the dry mouth feel is astringent & the other form of it astringency. Hope this could help you next time & looks to be fairly appetizing fruit
Wax apple
Gnome hat
I think you got the small one fed with too much water.
Hey what the hell is that green thing on the back table at 3:03?? That looks like that thing people photoshop onto stuff to trigger people's trypophobia
Thats a lotus pod. super useful plant but yeah... its hard to look at. I'll be doing a deep dive on it, maybe I should make a trypophobia free version.