What fruit is this?

[Emancipated]

What are these called in English? It's very good if you eat them with a little salt and chili pepper paste. Yummy!

A genus of the Guava family?

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5728/img0037ig0.th.jpg (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0037ig0.jpg)

[angieec]

i believe that's a "quince"...

Wikipedia:
The Quince (Cydonia oblonga) is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region. It is a small deciduous tree, growing 5-8 m tall and 4-6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 6-9 cm broad.

[Emancipated]

May be it's the fact that I get this fruit solely from China Town that's why it always look the same. The referenced sources show different types of this fruit. Some are very pear like, others are more Granny Smith apple like.

Thanks for the quelling my curiosity. I've wondered about it for the longest time.

[jerryhung]

Pretty sure it's 芭樂 (at least in Taiwan terms)
= Guava
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guava

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Psidium_guajava_fruit.jpg/581px-Psidium_guajava_fruit.jpg

[MoonDoggy]

Guava is my first guess.

BTW, we dont eat the seeds :lol:

I love it best with crushed salted/sugar prunes meat.

[Squiggles]

That apple looks rotten. You should probably throw it out.

[OceanDrop]

it looks kinda like thai eggplant to me...

[Muncher]

Looks like an unripe guava to me. A quince has its pips in the middle like an apple, not around the flesh. A quince smells and tastes like a bland sourish apple with a denser consistency. A guava smells perfumy and sweet and has hard seeds scattered around

[4flava]

it's a Guava!

[Oishi Girl]

Ditto...Guava (unripe from the looks of it).

[kiasu]

definetely is GUAVA...my gf loves it..

[M@rk]

That apple looks rotten. You should probably throw it out.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[jonkaho]

looks kinda like a rotten green apple.

[isom3tric]

It's guava, my parents love it and buys it whenever they see it.

[Bordello]

BTW, we dont eat the seeds :lol:
Why not? The seed part is the sweetest part of the fruit. The outside is pretty bland.

[Evil Techie]

Why not? The seed part is the sweetest part of the fruit. The outside is pretty bland.

hard to digest for some ppl
yeah its the sweetest part, thats what frustrates me the most, i hate getting crushed seeds stuck btwn my teeth yet it is so tempting to eat the centre part

[M.D.]

damnit, I want one now. damn RFD making me spend more :lol:

have you guys ate it chopped in cubes with sauce (don't know what kinda sauce but it's good)

[Dragon120]

It is guava, like many posters already agreed upon.

The Vietnamese (some) way to eat it is with chopped up red pepper mix with salt. You'll get the spicy salty taste...try it, it's good!!!!! Be sure to pick the firm one, not the hard one or the soft one.

[CdTriX]

i am fond of the outer hard pear like texture..

not big on the seeds cause when i had braces i couldn't eat it so the habbit moved over to now when i don't have them..

quavas are awesome

[Emancipated]

hard to digest for some ppl
yeah its the sweetest part, thats what frustrates me the most, i hate getting crushed seeds stuck btwn my teeth yet it is so tempting to eat the centre part

You must have strong jaws or dental hygene because they are rock hard for me. I'm afraid of chipping a tooth. I usually chew very lightly and swallow it.