Interestingly enough even though I've only had these in Hong Kong the fruits are native to the Americas and West Indies and have been grown as north as Florida. Southeast Asia seems to be where most of them are grown now.
Among the west indies in Jamaica we call this fruit the sweet sope. We love making it into juice, we also make sweet sope ice cream. But it's best on its own when it's ripe. 😊
I was going to mention, it is very common in Brazil, specially in the middle west (Goiânia and Brasilia). You had family there right? Should eat a lot on your next trip
Thank you for describing the smell, taste, and texture of this fruit. I struggle with new foods because it’s so unknown, so getting a detailed description makes it less scary! I may not ever get to try these custard apples, but I’m at least open to the idea thanks to how clearly you worded your own experience.
Man this brings back memories. The colloquial term for chirimoya in Puerto Rico is corazón, & they’re one of my grandfather’s favorites. The thing with tropical fruits outside the tropics is that in order for them to make the trek to your local grocery store, they have to be picked green so they’re sturdy enough to survive transport & don’t spoil. Then they’re usually artificially ripened with ethylene gas. The flavor, sugar content, & texture are never quite right, but hopefully with science we’ll eventually be able to more closely imitate the wonders of nature & even one day grow them at home. I’ve posted my guava story all over YT by this point, but man they in particular don’t do well when not left to ripen on the tree. You just can’t get them in the mainland like you can on the island.
Omg I love those, they're so good. My dad was living in a house that had a custard apple tree. Delicious! There's an Asian market I can find them at, I was so happy once I saw them :)
My sister in law was given three if these as a gift for lunar new year and was gracious enough to share one with me yesterday. It was so delicious! It's sweet and creamy with a light caramel flavor and faint touch of fruitiness. If ice cream was a fruit, this would be it. The ones she were given were quite expensive (by American standards). I think it was three custard apples for $70 usd. It's certainly not something I could eat on a daily basis, but it was an incredible treat.
I was going to say that it might possibly be grown in Southern Texas, near the border. There's a small group of Southeast Asian immigrants there that grow fruits from the region in their backyard (in TX). I'm going to ask my mom if they have a Custard apple tree. I think you can also buy them in Florida. There's a popular farm there that grows fruits from Southeast Asia. I remember watching that video about the farm from Vox or some other channel. Custard apples are the best! We usually eat it in the summer. Freeze a couple along with Soursop slices for that creamy frozen fruit snack during a hot afternoon.
I moved from Michigan to Hong Kong back in the day and fell in love. I remember eating these and after moving to California I always thought they were cherimoya that just never tasted as good as the OG ones in Southeast Asia. Glad to know they’re actually different!
I grew up with a custard apple tree in my backyard. I LOVED that fruit. My grandma taught my sister to climb to three to get the fruit. I have found Cherimoya here in Canada and I thought they were the same. Maybe I just really wanted to believe so as to relive those childhood memories hehehehe
Oh man, my grandma loved these. So much so, she had two sugar apple trees planted in her backyard. She passed away in 2015 and her old house got sold, but sometimes I wonder if those trees are still there.
Called "Pomme Cannelle" (Cinammon Apple) in french pacific ialands ❤ My aunt would deseed really ripe ones, mix it with some creme fraiche and honey and freeze it. Best summer treat ❤❤❤
@@jonkung both kinds taste the same, creamy, really sweet, and if you buy them when they’re at the perfect point, their skin will just break apart once you start eating them. Enjoy!
fitting that I stumbled on this video again now! Americans. particularly in the southeast: it's pawpaw season :) pawpaws are a delicate, creamy fruit native to the southeast US that is in the same family as custard apples and cherimoya!
A lot of weird stuff can actually be found here in Michigan, we got just about everything and are some of the nicest yet meanest folks you'll ever meet,
Ooooh. Here in Sacramento we have an enormous Asian population which means we have Korean grocery, Vietnamese grocery, Chinese grocery, Japanese grocery. I am going to go hunting for this fruit. I recently had my first lychee and am now hooked. Thank you for making videos like this. I love getting exposed to foods of different cultures.
You should try out a Pawpaw sometime Jon! They are related to the custard apple and in the same family Annonaceae, there taste ranges from mango, pineapple and banana. They ripen from September to October and can usually be only found in the wild or more than likely farmers markets, they don't keep long after picking so eat them quick if you ever have the chance!
We have these growing on the streets in a lot of places in North India. They are called 'shareefa' in Hindi. We had a shareefa tree in my childhood house, grew up eating these :)
Brother, these are really delicious indeed I keep some in the fridge to make smoothies when I can't sell them all. They get ripe really fast especially in this summer heat.
I lived in Taiwan for a long time and custard apples were one of my favorite fruits. I never ate them when they had that blackish color and the texture was almost pair-like but slightly softer. Taiwan had the best fruit and vegetables that I've ever eaten in my life. I wish we had that in the States.
This was my thought as well. If he didn't have it on-screen, I'd also think he was talking about a pawpaw. They're indigenous to the eastern part of North America, from what I understand.
We yardies call it sweet sop. Spanish people make a shake with the flesh of this and it is sweet and delicious. Used to buy the shake( made with milk and frozen sweet sop from a little spanish breakfast shop). Shout out to them for satisfying my sweet tooth. ❤
We call this Srikaya in Indonesia, and I have 1 tree growing in my yard. It only produce 5-8 fruits when in season and we’ll race to get them. Best fruit ever, if only I can get it to grow more fruits. 😂
Where did you find it Jon? This is my THE favorite fruit and I haven’t had a decent one ever since I moved to the USA and India has the best in the season!!
we vietnamese actual eat those often but we wont wait til it shed its skin to us that is just overipped. We eat it when we smell the aroma of the fruit or when we start to see some black spot because we dont want that grainy texture
sita pand! my mom loves this fruit and it's growing behind my grandmother's hut. she did give it up for life as a representation of giving up her sins in a pilgrimage though, so ... she was very jealous when I tried it for the first time during our India trip 😅
😂 I was going to say it's a chirimolla!!! I love all the family. There is a bigger version called Guanábana in Colombia. Milkshake of that is heaven❤❤❤
@@jonkung you have to try it! Don't forget to remove the black seeds or even go to a Latin market where you could find the frozen puree for that. Enjoy 😊
I grew up calling it a sugar apple and ate it all the time because we had a sugar apple tree growing up. You should plant the seeds. They are kinda expensive in the asian store. My parents dont have the tree anymore ☹
If it's grainy that means I think that means it's a bad quality one. In Palestine our custard apples are really Smooth creamy and soft, almost like you're eating actual custard with seeds
If you think these are fabulous, try to find some pawpaws at your local market this summer! They are North America’s largest edible fruit and absolutely delicious! To me they have a custard texture with the flavor/smell of pineapple + banana + mango!
Interestingly enough even though I've only had these in Hong Kong the fruits are native to the Americas and West Indies and have been grown as north as Florida. Southeast Asia seems to be where most of them are grown now.
I'm from the windies and I don't recall having this, I'm missing out.
Among the west indies in Jamaica we call this fruit the sweet sope. We love making it into juice, we also make sweet sope ice cream. But it's best on its own when it's ripe. 😊
Bro! I live here in the D, and I don't know what store you go to to find this?! What store would you even find this 168 mart? H Mart?
I was going to mention, it is very common in Brazil, specially in the middle west (Goiânia and Brasilia). You had family there right? Should eat a lot on your next trip
I have one of these trees in my backyard in Barbados. I never get any fruit cause the birds always eat them all 😢😂
We also call it a sugar apple or sweetsop ( the opposite if sour sop) in Trinidad 🇹🇹 😊
I also know it as monkey apple.
I love this! We call it Atis here in the Philippines.
Thank you for describing the smell, taste, and texture of this fruit. I struggle with new foods because it’s so unknown, so getting a detailed description makes it less scary! I may not ever get to try these custard apples, but I’m at least open to the idea thanks to how clearly you worded your own experience.
That’s my favourite fruit too 😋 we call it Sita Phal in India 🙂
Man this brings back memories. The colloquial term for chirimoya in Puerto Rico is corazón, & they’re one of my grandfather’s favorites. The thing with tropical fruits outside the tropics is that in order for them to make the trek to your local grocery store, they have to be picked green so they’re sturdy enough to survive transport & don’t spoil. Then they’re usually artificially ripened with ethylene gas. The flavor, sugar content, & texture are never quite right, but hopefully with science we’ll eventually be able to more closely imitate the wonders of nature & even one day grow them at home. I’ve posted my guava story all over YT by this point, but man they in particular don’t do well when not left to ripen on the tree. You just can’t get them in the mainland like you can on the island.
Omg I love those, they're so good. My dad was living in a house that had a custard apple tree. Delicious! There's an Asian market I can find them at, I was so happy once I saw them :)
My sister in law was given three if these as a gift for lunar new year and was gracious enough to share one with me yesterday. It was so delicious! It's sweet and creamy with a light caramel flavor and faint touch of fruitiness. If ice cream was a fruit, this would be it. The ones she were given were quite expensive (by American standards). I think it was three custard apples for $70 usd. It's certainly not something I could eat on a daily basis, but it was an incredible treat.
I was going to say that it might possibly be grown in Southern Texas, near the border. There's a small group of Southeast Asian immigrants there that grow fruits from the region in their backyard (in TX). I'm going to ask my mom if they have a Custard apple tree.
I think you can also buy them in Florida. There's a popular farm there that grows fruits from Southeast Asia. I remember watching that video about the farm from Vox or some other channel.
Custard apples are the best! We usually eat it in the summer. Freeze a couple along with Soursop slices for that creamy frozen fruit snack during a hot afternoon.
This was my absolutely favorite fruit as a kid.
I love this fruit. Here in the Northeast of Brazil we call it Pinha. It has other names around Brazil like Fruta do Conde.
my favorite.. from my childhood 😍😍😍
I moved from Michigan to Hong Kong back in the day and fell in love. I remember eating these and after moving to California I always thought they were cherimoya that just never tasted as good as the OG ones in Southeast Asia. Glad to know they’re actually different!
Hehehe!! I just had some this past couple of days!! Love them!
I grew up with a custard apple tree in my backyard. I LOVED that fruit. My grandma taught my sister to climb to three to get the fruit.
I have found Cherimoya here in Canada and I thought they were the same. Maybe I just really wanted to believe so as to relive those childhood memories hehehehe
Oh man, my grandma loved these. So much so, she had two sugar apple trees planted in her backyard. She passed away in 2015 and her old house got sold, but sometimes I wonder if those trees are still there.
Called "Pomme Cannelle" (Cinammon Apple) in french pacific ialands ❤
My aunt would deseed really ripe ones, mix it with some creme fraiche and honey and freeze it. Best summer treat ❤❤❤
Same with soursop actually... man i miss those fruits 😢
That sounds so incredibly delicious.
I love them. We have white ones and pink flesh ones in my home country El Salvador 🇸🇻
Oh what do they taste like?
@@jonkung both kinds taste the same, creamy, really sweet, and if you buy them when they’re at the perfect point, their skin will just break apart once you start eating them. Enjoy!
Called Anonas there
Dad used to buy these whenever he could find them. The grainy texture makes me gag. It’s lovely to see someone enjoy them! I could never 😅
I grew these amongst a bunch of other fruits when I lived in Florida
We grow these in Queensland, Australia too!
We love these in Brazil. We call it Fruta-Do-Conde "The Count's Fruit"
Its called Kaya fruit in indonesia/malaysia/singapore. Make a really good jam, and one of singapore's best delicacy (Kaya Toast)
Actually just a footnote, growing up native Malaysian. The ones my family growing in our 'kebun' called NONA
You do know that Kaya jam doesn’t actually contain any of this Kaya fruit, do you? 😅
I LOOOVE cherimoya, so now I am eager to find this fruit
it's my favourite fruit.I like the custerdy and grainy texture.
We grow these in Australia as well and they're delicious
OMG my favorite fruit is sugar apples. SOOOOOOO good.
fitting that I stumbled on this video again now! Americans. particularly in the southeast: it's pawpaw season :) pawpaws are a delicate, creamy fruit native to the southeast US that is in the same family as custard apples and cherimoya!
Custard apple grows in Jamaica 🇯🇲 😊
Mangosteen is my favorite fruit. But I haven’t tried custard apples yet, so I’m now on the hunt! 😋
I had that last month! Sweet fruit indeed
We have a lot of these in north east Brasil, we call it "ata" or "fruta do conde" (count's fruit), if you're from the south of the country.
A lot of weird stuff can actually be found here in Michigan, we got just about everything and are some of the nicest yet meanest folks you'll ever meet,
That fruit is my childhood in winter
I have this tree in my house and I like the taste too... but I'm absolutely allergic to this fruit
Is it a latex allergy?
sell it at like a farmers market
It’s currently the beginning season of sugar apple. My mom have like 5 trees in her yard and they’re like her priceless possession
When I was a kid I used to see trees of that fruit everywhere. Now I haven't seen any in probably a decade.
Omg yes vanilla and jasmine! I have a sugar apple seedling that I’m going to plant
Omg!! These are one of my favorite fruits! I used to eat these so much when they’re in season back in the Philippines… sugar apple and mangos
had one of these in my yard (tropics in australia) growing up as a kid. loved to eat them
Ooooh. Here in Sacramento we have an enormous Asian population which means we have Korean grocery, Vietnamese grocery, Chinese grocery, Japanese grocery. I am going to go hunting for this fruit. I recently had my first lychee and am now hooked. Thank you for making videos like this. I love getting exposed to foods of different cultures.
I love it too! It grows during summer around where I live, that is in south India. But I can't remember what we call it tho 😅
iirc they're called sitaphal?
I love cherimoya (sp?). I will try a sugar apple if I see one in my neighborhood.
It’s so tasty
What's the difference?
I remember I had a sugar apple tree in Bangladesh
You should try out a Pawpaw sometime Jon! They are related to the custard apple and in the same family Annonaceae, there taste ranges from mango, pineapple and banana. They ripen from September to October and can usually be only found in the wild or more than likely farmers markets, they don't keep long after picking so eat them quick if you ever have the chance!
We have these growing on the streets in a lot of places in North India. They are called 'shareefa' in Hindi. We had a shareefa tree in my childhood house, grew up eating these :)
This is my favorite too!!!
Brother, these are really delicious indeed I keep some in the fridge to make smoothies when I can't sell them all. They get ripe really fast especially in this summer heat.
I miss that! What a delight!
It's here a ton in Jamaica mostly in Stony areas we call it "sweet sop"
My Grandma had a tree in our yard in The Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 we call it sugar apple as well I love it.
That looks really interesting, I’ll definitely keep my eye out for one next time I’m at the Asian grocery store.
In my country, the Annona squamosa is sugar apple. We call the Annona reticulata custard apple.
Ooh I’d like to try it
My Mom's favorite fruit. We call it atis💚💚💚
I grew up with this and I miss it.
Love it too !
In New Caledonia, we call it cinnamon apple :)
I lived in Taiwan for a long time and custard apples were one of my favorite fruits. I never ate them when they had that blackish color and the texture was almost pair-like but slightly softer. Taiwan had the best fruit and vegetables that I've ever eaten in my life. I wish we had that in the States.
I have one of those in my backyard that was my grandmother’s favorite fruit
Have you had paw paws (which grow in north america)? It has a custardy texture and also vaguely looks tropical
This was my thought as well. If he didn't have it on-screen, I'd also think he was talking about a pawpaw. They're indigenous to the eastern part of North America, from what I understand.
We call it Atis in the Philippines. The crushed leaves of the tree/plant can be used to treat persons who fainted or in hysteria
We yardies call it sweet sop. Spanish people make a shake with the flesh of this and it is sweet and delicious. Used to buy the shake( made with milk and frozen sweet sop from a little spanish breakfast shop). Shout out to them for satisfying my sweet tooth. ❤
In Jamaica it's called sweet sap or sour sap. Makes an amazing drink
we have it in Egypt is called: Eshta.. beuuuutiful
Custard apple is in the genus Annona. Another fruit in this genus, paw-paw, is native to much of the eastern U. S., including Michigan.
OMG Atis (as we call it in the Philippines) 😍😍😍 one of my absolute favourites!
We call this Srikaya in Indonesia, and I have 1 tree growing in my yard. It only produce 5-8 fruits when in season and we’ll race to get them. Best fruit ever, if only I can get it to grow more fruits. 😂
I love these so much, i think why it's referred to as a custard apple is because of the vanilla flavour, it's so delicious when it's chilled
sweetsop! one of my favorite fruits
Very well known in Brazil 😍
There are several names but I call it pinha ❤️
You can imagine the aroma when you extract oils from it
We can grow sugar apples and cherimoyas here in Florida; they’re very popular here.
It tastes like how a child might imagine cloud would taste like.
Atlas apple in India. Had it back in New Delhi
I just moved to Detroit. I love custard apples. Where were you able to find these?!
visually it kinda reminds me of a round version of the fruit from a monstera deliciosa. I wonder if theres any similarity in taste?
It might be! I’ve only seen monstera fruit in photos.
Where did you find it Jon? This is my THE favorite fruit and I haven’t had a decent one ever since I moved to the USA and India has the best in the season!!
I'm going to have to ask at the Asian Markets in St. Pete. I've discovered ALL KINDS of delicious things!
My family is from india and this is my favorite fruit ever omg
we vietnamese actual eat those often but we wont wait til it shed its skin to us that is just overipped. We eat it when we smell the aroma of the fruit or when we start to see some black spot because we dont want that grainy texture
Sarifa / Sitaphal in Nepal
sita pand! my mom loves this fruit and it's growing behind my grandmother's hut. she did give it up for life as a representation of giving up her sins in a pilgrimage though, so ... she was very jealous when I tried it for the first time during our India trip 😅
In israel there's a type of these called Anona. It's my fave.
I’m from Ghana🇬🇭, and we call that “ Aluguintuguin”.
Caribbean folk call it sweetsop. Spanish call cherimoya.
I have both in my back yard sour and sweet sop
😂 I was going to say it's a chirimolla!!! I love all the family. There is a bigger version called Guanábana in Colombia. Milkshake of that is heaven❤❤❤
Ohhhh a milkshake 👀
@@jonkung you have to try it! Don't forget to remove the black seeds or even go to a Latin market where you could find the frozen puree for that. Enjoy 😊
I've seen it but never knew what to do with it!
We have a variety of it here in South Africa as well, ours looks a little different
On god imma find one and plant a whole garden
its called "fruta do conde" in Brazil
We call it ATIS in Filipino hottie. 😊
I grew up calling it a sugar apple and ate it all the time because we had a sugar apple tree growing up. You should plant the seeds. They are kinda expensive in the asian store. My parents dont have the tree anymore ☹
If it's grainy that means I think that means it's a bad quality one. In Palestine our custard apples are really Smooth creamy and soft, almost like you're eating actual custard with seeds
have you had pawpaws? they're pretty good, idk how they compare though
Where in Michigan were you able to score this? I’m also in Michigan 😁
Good pronunciation on chirimoya!
there's a place nearby me that makes custard apple ice cream and it's so so good!! indians call it sitafal :]
If you think these are fabulous, try to find some pawpaws at your local market this summer! They are North America’s largest edible fruit and absolutely delicious! To me they have a custard texture with the flavor/smell of pineapple + banana + mango!
I've never had sugar apple outside of the Bahamas, where did you get it?!?! I'm in Michigan too!
We call it Atas in Bengal(India)