The kind of fruit that used to be full of no one picks, is now a very expensive specialty in the city, 550,000 VND/kg

Elaeagnus latifolia, scientifically known as Elaeagnus latifolia, is a species of tree belonging to the stag family, grown for fruit in the northern region of our country. This fruit has an oval shape, the skin has many white scales, when eaten, it must be cleaned to avoid causing throat irritation. Young pods have a green color with a sour, acrid taste, while ripe pods have an eye-catching red color and a sweet taste.

Pomegranate – a fruit from the countryside is now a specialty in the city

This fruit is in season from April, right at the end of the school year, early summer. At this rate, children in the countryside in the old days pulled each other up to the fields and fields to pick and eat as snacks. The children at that time didn’t have as many snacks as they do now. In the afternoon, they would go to the forest to pick strange fruits like cherries, share packages of white salt and chili peppers to dip them in, while eating while enjoying the sweet and sour taste. its sweetness.

Not only children in the countryside, many adults also love this fruit with many unique ways to eat it such as the “cross-leaf octopus” dish, pickled with salt and chili peppers, served with raw vegetables, and made salad. Fish, mixed mannequin, soaked in sugar, is one of the ingredients for cooking sour soup… and has become a popular snack food for many people today.

Green pomelos and ripe pomelos are both loved by all of you

The most prominent dish is the green dish served with raw vegetables and the divine “occipital cross” dipping sauce. After being cleaned of chalk dust outside, the seller splits it into two and cans it with cabbage, fresh garlic leaves, ginger, coriander … each part will have a bag of anchovy sauce, salt, and seeds. , garlic, mac Khen, chestnuts, basil, herbs, paprika, lemongrass … called occipital cross. This is a traditional sauce of the Thai ethnic group in Dien Bien, Northwest and Northeast Thailand. The sour taste of the pomelo fruit, the crisp taste of raw vegetables, and the pungent dipping sauce create a distinctive “addictive” taste for many urban dwellers.

“Each set of green octopus I bought for 60,000 VND includes 15 halves with water and herbs, which I only ate in one go. There were even days when some sisters from the same company bought dozens of sets to sit and celebrate,” said Phan Thu Trang, residing in Dong Da (Hanoi). Love the dish of green rice with diagonal dots, every season, Ms. Trang buys it a few times to eat for… less cravings.

Green octopus is an expensive snack

From wild fruits to rustic snacks, street fruits become “expensive” but also rare and hard to find dishes. In markets, food stores, supermarkets and e-commerce sites on the market, the price of nine types of 1 is up to 150,000 VND/kg, the normal price is from 30,000 to 70,000 VND/kg. Depending on the season and quality, the price may be lower or higher. Off-season green pods are priced at up to 550,000 VND/kg.

Out-of-season green pickles cost up to 55,000 VND/tang, which means 1kg costs up to 550,000 VND

“In my hometown, I just leave the red ripe on the tree and give it to each other, or sell it for 5-10 thousand VND/kg, but now I pick green and then sell it again, selling it for a few hundred thousand VND/kg”, said Ms. Phan. Thi Thanh Hai expressed. Ms. Hai is a seller of cross-legged green octopus and other items from the green locust on online markets. She said that on average, she can sell 70-80 sets of occipital blue balls a day, 5-7kg of all kinds of loquats. In order to have enough supply, Ms. Hai has to go back to Dien Bien to find the main source of goods. Customers who order in advance will have goods and sometimes have a surplus for visitors.

According to Oriental Medicine, the fruit has a sour, acrid taste, is average, stimulates the colon meridians, is effective in treating cough, except phlegm, relieves asthma, cures dysentery, diarrhea… However, this fruit is still needed. Eating properly so as not to cause adverse health effects because loquat fruit has a sour taste, a prominent acrid taste in green locusts increases the amount of acid in the stomach and digestive system, affecting, even causing stomach pain, stomach ulcers… for people to eat a lot.