The Local APPLE in my City: "Sayote"

@Shavkat (140119)
Philippines
November 14, 2018 7:38am CST
In my city, we always have 'sayote' or chayote in the backyard. It is a live saver for some locals if wanting to have something on the plate. It is like a papaya fruit that can be used with the other vegetables. In some countries, they call it as 'mirliton squash.' Some locals eat them fresh like an apple fruit. "Do you have this kind of edible plant or fruit in your country?" "Have you tried eating them?"
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LK2018
@Letranknight2015 (52079)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
I think i just ate them today for my lunch.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
@Letranknight2015 It is nice to have them with the family. It is the quickest to have something for a meal.
LK2018
@Letranknight2015 (52079)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
@amitkokiladitya it's not candy
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Kokil agarwal
@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
14 Nov 18
Candies in lunch???
Icydoll
@Icydoll (36717)
• India
14 Nov 18
Yes we have it here .it's taste is good
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Kokil agarwal
@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
14 Nov 18
Unlikely I don't like them at all
Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
@Icydoll I do like them. Have you tried it? @amitkokiladitya You had mentioned that you haven't seen one.
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Kokil agarwal
@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
15 Nov 18
@Shavkat no...not at all. Neither seen nor tried
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ShannyBananny
@shaggin (72234)
• United States
14 Nov 18
I have never seen this plant before. Do you like them? I have an apple tree in my back yard. Free food for us around September and October
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ShannyBananny
@shaggin (72234)
• United States
15 Nov 18
@Shavkat I would say apples are the most common fruit tree to grow around here. I would love a peach and plum tree too.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
@shaggin I will try if it is possible to have apple trees in my city. Since I am living in the mountainside of my country. I think it is cold weather here all year round.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
I do like them. If I have the chance, I can show it to you. We don't have apple trees here. That's bad. I had seen some articles that apples were being shared with the other people.
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Sue21
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
21 Nov 18
Have not seen this one no. I like papaya too but there is very few and far between of that also. It does look very nice to eat though.
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Sue21
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
21 Nov 18
@Shavkat Yes I get it more or less and its just that I have not eaten papaya in a long time this would be found in Madrid I think more than anywhere else.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
21 Nov 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 Can you plant papaya in your place?
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
21 Nov 18
It does taste like unripe papayas. We usually have it as vegetables.
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Always smiling
@allknowing (137773)
• India
15 Nov 18
I have not seen it here although I notice most of what grows here grows in your country.
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Always smiling
@allknowing (137773)
• India
15 Nov 18
@Shavkat Thanks. India is a huge country and that explains my ignorance (lol)
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
20 Nov 18
@allknowing It is an acceptable reason.lol
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
I had checked online. I think they are available in your country.
Chayote (chow Chow)
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nawala
@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
15 Nov 18
yes, i like it. it is called jipang or jipan in bahasa indonesia. we make some side dish from it
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
It is nice that you have these, too. Do you make spring rolls using them?
Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
20 Nov 18
@nawala123 Same here. We can do it as one of the ingredients in spring rolls.
nawala
@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
15 Nov 18
@Shavkat no, we treat them as "vegetable"
sofs
@sofssu (23662)
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15 Nov 18
Isn't that a gourd? its a vegetable.. I didn't know that you could eat it raw.. we cook it with other veggies.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
20 Nov 18
Yes, it is. It is only the native people in my city. I haven't tried it though
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
21 Nov 18
@sofssu Same thing here. I don't usually eat raw food.
sofs
@sofssu (23662)
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20 Nov 18
@Shavkat Its sweetish, but has this sticky feel to it.. I wouldn't eat it raw.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
14 Nov 18
Yes, I have eaten them in France, they were regularly for sale and called Chayote. This is not an apple, it's part of he gourd family.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
I agree. The local people imagined it like an apple fruit. For the reason that it is so abundant in my city.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
@LadyDuck This lunchtime, I had sauteed chayote with some ground meat. It tastes like being in heaven.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
15 Nov 18
@Shavkat We only ate the fruit cooked, I liked the taste.
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ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
that sayote in the picture is not yet ripe, right, kabsat?
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
Yes. It is still young and better than eating the old ones.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
23 Nov 18
@ridingbet I do love them when my mom cooks some local Ilocano dishes. Do you like it, kabsat?
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ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
22 Nov 18
@Shavkat do you prefer the young unripe ones for cooking, kabsat? maybe the taste is not palatableyet?
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Shubhu
@shubhu3 (36463)
• New Delhi, India
14 Nov 18
That is so huge We don't have these ones here.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
I hope you can find some. I had tried to search it in your country, some locals called it 'chow-chow.'
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
@shubhu3 I hope you can find it soon.
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Shubhu
@shubhu3 (36463)
• New Delhi, India
15 Nov 18
@Shavkat oh okay. I will search for them.
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Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
27 Dec 18
@Shavkat I have never heard of what you have but we do have squash here. I do not eat it.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
27 Dec 18
It wasn't popular across the borders from my country. We do have squash here, too.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
27 Dec 18
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Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
27 Dec 18
@Shavkat Sorry it wasn't popular across the borders of your country.
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@ZedSmart (19786)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
I like it stir fried. I remember drinking juice from it because it is believed that it is good with people with hypertension. I grated two of it and squeezed/extract its juice. It's not bad though.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
Most of the time, the local people stir it and have it as their meal. I haven't tried the extracted juice if it. What does it taste?
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
@ZedSmart I guess I will try it next time. It won't kill me anyway.
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@ZedSmart (19786)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
@Shavkat It's just OK. At first, I was hesitant to try thinking that it's not good but it's tolerable.
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DEBJANI BASAK
@debjani1 (7202)
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15 Nov 18
Not interested as I never like to eat apple.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
Okay.
Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
20 Nov 18
DEBJANI BASAK
@debjani1 (7202)
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putri
@leny34 (8506)
• Sidoarjo, Indonesia
14 Nov 18
in my place there are so many fruits that can be eaten,
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
We do all the tropical fruits here, too. I am sure some of them are similar in your country.
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putri
@leny34 (8506)
• Sidoarjo, Indonesia
14 Nov 18
@Shavkat yes it is the same as fruit in my country, but we only use it as a vegetable
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
@leny34 We also some fruits in some local dishes here.
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rsa101
@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
Oh I haven't tried to eat it fresh yet. I wonder what taste it has since as vegetables they almost does not taste anything at all.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
I will surely say that it tastes blunt.
rebel_woman06
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
Really, some locals eat them fresh? I tried tasting its raw slice one time, but I fin it not good to the taste.
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rebel_woman06
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
@Shavkat It's good sauteed with slices of pork and with sliced tomatoes and oyster sauce as its seasoning. It is also good for "tinolang manok".
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
@SIMPLYD I do agree with you. It is a good replacement for papaya in making 'tinola manok.'
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
Some of the native people do it. I haven't tried it though.
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@acelawrites
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
I don't know it can be eaten raw? I always cook it.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
15 Nov 18
It should be cooked for me. Some native people do here
Sunrise Fan
@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
I can't imagine myself eating sayote raw :)
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
I never dared to do it though. But the natives do.
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Sunrise Fan
@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
Kokil agarwal
@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
14 Nov 18
I don't think that I have ever seen it.
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
I think it is called 'chow-chow' in your country. Is it?
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
14 Nov 18
@amitkokiladitya I guess it is common in some places in your country.
Kokil agarwal
@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
14 Nov 18
@Shavkat I have never heard the name even. It is uncommon in the area where I live
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Josh Nika
@coffebe (38)
• Red Creek, New York
21 Nov 18
It's really nice to grow fruit like that in the backyard And no i never eat one like that before. But i must to try it ! thanks :)
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Shavkat
@Shavkat (140119)
• Philippines
23 Nov 18
I do think that we need to have something to grow in the backyard. I hope you can able to find it in your place.