Hunting the Extraordinary NIPA FRUIT! (and the strange ways that you eat it)
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2023
- Episode: 707 Nipa Palm
Species: Nypa fruticans
Location: Penang Malaysia
Thanks to Jennie From Nature Fruit Farm Resort for showing me this incredible fruit: follow her Instagram: @naturefruitfarmresort
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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.
Talking with locals is really filling out the story and giving an Anthony Bourdain vibe and I am here for it.
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.
These "fruit redemption" videos are some of my favorite ones. I love when you revisit something that you feel deserves another shot. It just shows what kind of guy you are, and I'm 1000% here for it dude! I hope everyone is doing well and having a great day!
I enjoy hearing from the people who actually eat/harvest these fruits!
How can one man look like both a child in a cuckold when he smiles?
No one ever
hello I actually eat fruits
I love that you showed the mudskippers! Can't see them without remembering David Attenborough talking about them in a nature documentary in the 80s!
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
2:52 Omg, the way this dude is swinging that clever with his hand right there.
😱
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.
I'm from Penang originally and it was a blast from the past to hear Jenny's accent !
@ 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.
I liked seeing that monitor walking slowly away in the mangroves
In Vietnam we call it Dua nuoc (Water Coconut in English), we usually eat them with syrup and some other sweets
Nipah Palm trees usually prefers the upper estuarine where the stream has lower salinity. As you rows towards the sea, the river banks vegetation will transitions from jungle plants to just dense Nipah palms and eventually mangrove forest.
That cluster of nipa looks a little bit like screwpine fruit. But looking it up, their closest point of relation is that they're both monocots. It's not even vaguely close. Convergent evolution is nuts.
That muddy mudskipper theme really hit me with the nostalgia! By far my favorite show growing up.
Wow....weird re: Sulphur. It grows in deep mud that's gonna stink of sulphur if distrubed but it's not as if there's a particularly high concentration in the mud itself, it's more to do with anaerobic chemistry going on in bacteria. Maybe it's secondary metabolites in the plant... some level of internal antifungal capacity given the damp, hot conditions 🤷♂️
Very nostalgic. My late grandpa grew them at the backyard pond, near the paddy field, mainly to harvest the leaves to make roof. The fruit is not popular because it has very little fill. Also difficult to harvest and peel.
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.
Didn't expect you to go to Malaysia! I can't recommend any other local fruits there since you tried them all tho, but Tuak is a nice alcoholic drink to try for alcohol beginners. There is also rice tuak and coconut tuak, you should try them too while here!
He goes to Malaysia often.
Welcome to my hometown, hahaha I never knew it’s so hard to break open the fruit, had it with local dessert and always thought nothing about it until I watch this video then I realize next trip when I taste the fruit, I should give more thought and gratefulness to the people who took the effort to process it. It has this interesting texture that add texture to your dessert, there isn’t much taste to it. Penangite call it attap chee.
Also don’t forget to try out local amazing fruits such as Duku, Langsat, both look similar but Duku is bigger and Langsat is smaller. Very tasty, sweet and sour taste.
Thanks! It a beautiful place. I had duku and langsat side by side in East Malaysia some years ago: czcams.com/video/xS-EfPnRJJ4/video.html
Currently it's the starting of fruit season in Malaysia. If anyone planning to come here, you should be able to find fruits like durian, mangosteen and rambutan a lot easier for the next 2 months.
bro your production quality has gotten so slick! love to see a fruit king thriving
True adventure. Exotic fruit that requires a canoe and machete to find!
I know it's not really a fruit, but the look of the nipa palm sap reminded me of "birch juice" aka birch sap which is a common summer refreshment drink here in Eastern Europe, maybe one day you give it a try :)
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
I really appreciate you going out to document these finds in an easy to consume and engaging way. There is often nothing readily available online about so many species of fruits and vegetables (especially those from local/indigenous communities). It feels like you are digitally preserving such important knowledge.
And don't forget the world famous, nipa hut! It's also a useful building material.
Not sure if you have ever covered the Japanese Raisin tree but I ordered a sapling. Maybe in a few years I can send you some edible stalks!
Figured you'd revisit this fruit, it's fascinating that Arak is also a thing in Asia because it's not the only food that is common in both Asia and the Middle East I'm familiar with that is considered the same thing but is made slightly differently, Pilaf, which is a very common rice dish in Asia is also very popular here, but it's called Oshpelo.
What a strange and interesting fruit! Here in my local small town in Canada, I've found cans of nipa fruit, and had no idea what the tree might look like. The fruit is quite delicate and refreshing; I never would have suspected that it came from such a crazy looking tree! Great video.😃
Thank you for uploading these, always makes my day to watch a new adventure of yours :)
The nipa sap is made into palm sugar, used in desserts in SE Asia. It has a somewhat caramel taste but different.
Thank you for your diligent fruit opening efforts. This is one of my favorite youtube channels. Keep on rockin it.
It's really cool how your fruit adventures lead you to meeting so many awesome people 😊
What a crazy fruit. Your channel really has grown, congrats
Dude your content is awesome. I love learning about all the different types of fruit this earth gives us. Thanks so much for doing all the hard work for us to enjoy this content!!
Love the Renn & Stimpy reference!
Took me half a video to realise these are what we call attap seeds! 🇸🇬
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).
That sap nectar is called neera, We have coconut neera here in Kerala, India. Palm neera is also there.
The traditional alcohol in Kerala is made from the fermented coconut neera.
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)
Been watching your channel for almost a decade now, came for the kaffir lime - stayed for the exceptional commentary, fun new fruits and great personality! I really love your content and wanted to thank you for doing what you do! And doing it so well! Thanks for exploring the fruits that many of us will never get to discover and helping us know what they're like. It honestly makes me very happy.
I absolutely LOVE this channel! I have been watching since the very beginning and it is video's like this one that make it all worthwhile! I had never even heard of Nipa before this! Well done, particularly with the visit to the plantation.
Love this kind of storytelling, keep going.
Linguistically, arak in arabic is "sweat". I think it derives from the distilling process since the distilled alcohol beads on the surface of the condenser element and runs into the collecting flask resembling sweat beading off skin. In this sense arak would be any distilled drink
Maybe that's why it tastes awful.
Can you try the whitebark raspberry next
Soldier from tf2?!
@@traphimawari7760 trap from himawari?!
Looks so prehistoric. Cool fruit, thank you for your awesome videos :)
a new beautiful treasure and oh the Silk road from the middle east to the far east what a great connection, and super amazing find very exotic and the flavor sounds delightful.
How cool is this! Thanks for sharing Jared ❤
Great video as usual, Jared! :D
I want to see you and Sonny from Best Ever Food Review Show do a fruit collab!
Ah peace!
Arak was the first alcohol used to make punch. That was in India in the 17th century. This was before methanol was avoided by distillers and the arrack contained a lot of methanol. It seems to have killed a lot of employees of the East India Companies, both Dutch and British. Usually when they sobered up, as ethanol is a treatment for methanol poisoning. Once the ethanol left their system, the methanol was still poisoning them.
Great useful Knowledge as usual.
Thanx, Man !
Definitely one of the coolest looking fruits! I’m glad we got to try these multiple times in Vietnam.
Such an interesting episode! I found a nypa palm washed up on one of our remote beaches and took it home to plant (100% sure it would not have survived there) and it's still alive after a year! I've never seen nypa palm where I live, even asking the elders if they recognize it and they don't. I had to search through driftseed catalogues to find out what it was named and was delighted to learn it's edible ☺️ loved that you showed the different varieties of what can be done with it!
Where do you live that you found it?
We have gula (sugar) Apong here in Sarawak, East Malaysia made from Nipah palm sap. Do come to try our Gula Apong ice-cream, it is really good.
The mudskipper featured at the end was the icing on the cake!
In Ghana, they ferment palm wine and make Akpeteshie out of it. Palmwine is from the sap of the palm nut tree.
Glad you reviewed this again. Night and day difference from the first time. 9 times out of 10 I try a new fruit I miss judge the age or ripeness.
Those are some virile globules, great find!
extra globular globules
The fresh one i used to drink it as a kid. In my part of Java that drink called "legen" without d. Tuak is also good but arak nipah oh boy, it burns! Sometimes it is distilled with coconut or other palm juice.
"Arak" is just a word for liquor. Tuak means fermentation but in this case, it refers to fermented juice or sap. This is because in some parts of Malaysia some tribes do moonshine out of different crops and they still call it tuak. So I guess, tuak means moonshine. Lol.
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.
Ah, I was wondering when you'd give this fascinating fruit a second try and do it justice! Its such an amazing, useful, adaptable plant, its honestly incredibly surprising that its not more commonly cultivated. All the fruit seems to like these quite a lot too. I tried finding some canned stuff at an Asian market, they didn't have any but the canned toddy palm was quite nice.
Giant Pinecone!!!!
When you are in Malaysia, have you try the most famous Malaysian mango, the "Harum Manis".
Beside this have ever try, mango type fruit like macang and kuinin.
Wonder if you try what Penang people call Jungle Longan, In Sarawak people there call buah kristal (Crystal fruit). It is also know as matoa.
Beside these there are other non so popular fruit like keranji, perah, keriang, buah rotan, ketapang, pinang and malaysian jungle chest nut.
Jambu mawar can be translate as rose apple, but here jambu mawar is another type of the typical rose apple, usually round and greenish yellow, but the seed are rather big.
Nipa is pretty much like coconut. We get the sap from the flower stalk. The sap has high sugar content. You can dehaydrate and crystalize into coconut and nipa sugar. You can ferment the sap. Tuak is tuba in Filipino. Distil it into arak. Arak is alak (wine) in Filipino. Distilled palm liquor - coconut or nipa is called Lambanog in Filipino. The coconut and nipa fruit are made into jam here in the Philippines.
Hey wired explorer, I tried Mangosteen for the first time the other day after being curious seeing one of your videos. I really didn’t think too much about it but I’m glad I gave it a go anyways. Maybe it was overripe. but I am more curious to try other fruits that I haven’t tried before because of your own enthusiasm with exotic fruits. Keep up the good work.
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.
Great video. What was exploring Malaysia like? I really want to visit sometime.
Your one of my favorite CZcamsrs. Great episode!
Wow, thanks!
I remember when you had around 20-25k subscribers... it took some years..but you def grew over the past 5-6 years❤
Thanks, I found a seed of Nipa or a relative to Nipa after a big flood on Kauai and was having a hard time finding it online. It sprouted and is planted in Kalalau but the goats have probably eaten it.
Digging from the memories I used to had from my asian trips experience... I've tried nipa palm fruits in a vacuum packing once bought in a local store. But I've never thought they have such hard and thick coating. It takes a lot of effort to harvest and process them
One of the most gorgeous fruits I’ve ever seen.
The joy of life on earth with humans and things. Love it; thanks for an entertaining and informative adventure.
We have this here in Thailand. You can buy it plain or in syrup to put in many snack desserts. SO yum.
just the slick Ren & Stimpy reference lol. Keep at it brother
Haha! Yesss! Muddy the Mudskipper! My mind went to the theme song the moment you said "mudskipper". Was a bit shocked when you referenced Muddy.
liked the video because of the dramatic reading of the mud skipper song. I love this channel lmao
Shout out to Ren & Stimpy. Hearing that theme song brought me right back to the early 90s
Bowser shell looking ah fruit
Someone needs to paint one for a laugh
The “Muddy Mud-skipper” theme song!
You just won with that deep cut.
Loved this video tbh
Excellent review
I just watched the first Nipa video last week. Somehow the algorithm knew...
I knew 🕴
LMAO FIRST
As a malay, i see this fruit a lot. Also arak is what we call any alcoholic drink, i fisnt know there was a specific drink called arak.
I’ve seen something similar to this but they were smaller and were really colorful! Supposedly they have a mixed flavor of fruits!
💪👍👍😜Thumbs up just for the REN AND STIMPY reference. There's a Florida grower called MIAMI FRUIT that from online shop, ships or grows specialty American continents fruits from USA , C AM AND S AM. The only way I have been able try out some of the fruits you mentioned.
Lol! Never seen this fruit or heard this song but I enjoyed all of it!
ace i said this idea im so glad u got to try😊
I love these fruit redemption videos :)
I want to try the sap so badly, I was expecting it to be tannic or bitter and the fact that it has an eggy taste!? Fascinating
Hello Jared, I don't know if you will see this but I've been an active subscriber and Patreon member for about 2-3 years :) unfortunately I am pausing my Patreon membership for now because my financial situation has changed. I don't have much of an income at the moment that's all. But I plan to re-join once I have a steady job again after I finish my degree. I'll still engage on CZcams though!! All the best from Australia!
I'd bet that the sulfuric taste comes from the fact that the palm grows in muddy mangroves.
The look of it opened reminds me of an oyster. A palm oyster?
Wholesome and fascinating channel. Good work.
just ignore the occasional cursing at a fruit and this is true 👍
@@WeirdExplorer Completely acceptable.😂😂👍👍
Thats wild, each section looks similar to a little coconut so you can sorta see how the palm of a coconut tree versus this nypa palm diverged when they were evolving
Recently tried some in Vietnam, they grew along a river my family had a house by. Never seen or heard of it before that experience. A lot of work for a little bit of edible fruit, but it was interesting and good!
We also have that but we also tap coconuts and it looks similar
I think the last 3 or your videos have sent me down a googling rabbit hole checking to see if I can find the plants here in Ecuador as I continue to expand my two food forests, one in the mountains almost directly on the equator and the new food forest I’m just starting in the upper Amazon. I don’t think I have the right conditions to grow nypa but I’ll definitely be growing some of the jaguar cacao I jaw in one of your other videos.
I love the Muddy Mudskipper shout out!
Watching mud skippers is really fun. The way the skip around and interact is hilarious. Plus, they have bright electric blue spots on them.
I just realized I lost your channel and had to search for the coconut islands episodes I could remember lol
How interesting, i never would have thought that the sap would taste good, let alone better than the fruit
love when you come back to something you didnt like and give it another shot
Great video
Thats a cool thumbnail
In south india we have similar ... neera , the unfermeted form and toddy .. both from coconut palm