The fruit that was once full of no one picked, is now a delicious and strange specialty in the city, 70,000 VND/kg

The tree is also known as the tree of the tree, the tree of the tree, the tree of the tree, also known as Ma San in Thai. For many people, this fruit must be strange in both its name and shape, but this is a fruit distributed in India, South China, Malaysia… In Vietnam, this tree often grows in different areas. Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen, Cao Bang, Lang Son, Hoa Binh provinces.

It is a woody tree, 15-20m high, the bark is rough, the leaves are large oval, the flowers are white, grows wild in the mountains and forests, occurs a lot along the banks of rivers and streams. The most special is the green fruit, which turns yellow when ripe, has a unique shape with thick succulent plates developed from the sepals and has a sour taste. Inside is the round core, viscous and inedible.

In Vietnam, this tree often grows in the provinces of Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen, Cao Bang, Lang Son, Hoa Binh.

In terms of taste, the fruit has a sour taste that makes many people, if they have tried it once, the next time they see it, they will want to drool, often used to eat raw with salt or cook sour soup, fish soup… where also bring it to make jam, make beverage. In addition, its leaves are also a good medicine, used to treat coughs, fevers, bloating, detoxification… Leaves can be used in the form of fresh leaves or dried, dried, dried stars used as an antidote. poison, cure cough, fever, bloating.

Because of the speciality of this fruit, it is one of the specialty fruits of Lang Son mountain region. If you have the opportunity to go to the Northwest provinces to enjoy the dishes of the Thai ethnic people, it is definitely not possible to ignore “old duck braised in the left book / delicious to forget life” – the famous braised duck dish. Braised duck has a thick broth, the water is poured into a bowl of plain rice, and then mixed well, the greasy taste of duck fat mixed with the sour taste of the window helps to make the familiar rice grains that are eaten every day suddenly become more strange.

“Fruits for cooking stream fish soup are the best. It’s very simple. If you go to the forest or go to the stream, you don’t have a lot of spices. Just cut each window, cut it into small pieces to make it soft and fast! Big fish is cut into chunks, small fish is fine. Leave the whole fish in. Throw in a little salt, a little main noodles, and you have a wonderfully delicious fish soup, and then boil for about 10 minutes. No need to cook for too long because the fish is also cooked quickly, and it takes too long to cook the fruit. The sour taste of the fruit is not like any other kind of sour, it’s special, and completely different”, said Mr. Phan Huy Hung, a forest resident in Lang Son.

Every July, taking advantage of the time when the rice fields are falling, many Thai people here invite each other to the forest to find this fruit. Not only people in the village but also in urban areas are very popular. Even many traders come to the place to get the source of this forest fruit.

Ms. Huynh Thi Thanh Vy (Cau Giay, Hanoi) said: “This is the right time when the forest fruits are ripening, if people feel fed up with popular dishes eaten all day, if possible. If you find a fruit, you should cook braised duck to try it, you will definitely like it. I have the opportunity to eat in the Northwest, when I return to Hanoi, I have to find this fruit to eat it “…

According to Ms. Vy, it is quite difficult to find this fruit in Hanoi, often Ms. Vy often asks relatives and friends who have the opportunity to go on a business trip or travel in the Northwest to buy it back to Hanoi. Occasionally, there are orders on apartment markets or online shops. According to the survey, each kilogram of fruit is sold for 20,000-30,000 VND/kg in rural markets in the Northwest. In Hanoi, this fruit is sold by some street vendors or online shops for about 60,000 – 70,000 VND/kg.

A dish from the forest to cook sturgeon cartilage soup with snails wrapped in lotus seeds

The fruit is also included in the menus of famous restaurants. The fruit is used to cook sturgeon cartilage soup, wrapped in lotus seeds, creating a sour taste but with a very different acrid taste at a 3-star restaurant on Hang Buom Street (Hanoi), the chef wants to use natural ingredients. natural to create a different taste.