[quote=“TheLostSwede”]Well, I’ve had that happen twice, but they almost went bad by then (forgotten in the back of the fridge).
They’re still not quite the same, but I’m not really interested in paying 5x the price for imported lemons…
Oh well…[/quote]
Jason’s has yellow Sunkist lemons at the moment for NT$49 per bag of four.
Breeze Super has real, honest-to-god Persian limes (Citrus latifolia, the seedless, thin-rinded kind sold as limes in most US grocery stores)! They’re sold as 無子檸檬 (“seedless lemons”).
Jason’s is also carrying 無子檸檬 (“seedless lemons”) which are smallish green things. I thought they might be limes but didn’t get any.
They are, but they’ll be a lot cheaper at the wet market I’m sure.
If they have them, that is.
They’ve been easy to get at the one near me for a long time now.
Which is where?
i’ve gotten “wuzi ningmeng” at a bunch of stalls there year-round, can’t imagine it would be hard anywhere else. off zunxian street between jili and shijian streets fwiw though.
zunxian street between jili and shijian streets? Huh? What city and district is that in? (Your location says “ub”, which doesn’t help!) Any chance of adding Chinese characters or tone numerals to make that Romanization more intelligible?
maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source= … 8&t=h&z=19
There you go FWIW, but it’s an utterly nondescript local market. I don’t advise anyone to go trekking up here. Ask around the stalls at your nearest local one.
Just so people can have a point of reference, it’s in the Beitou district, not far from Qilian MRT station.
A key lime (citrus aurantifolia) is much more pungent and acidic and will cut through the dreadful over-sweet tonic water here in Taiwan.
It’s clear that people selling fruit here have no idea what a lime is - and indeed if you ask for a lime using the correct term in Chinese you are met with uncomprehending blankness: What’s a 青檸?
青檸 - lime
墨西哥青檸 - key lime (citrus aurantifolia), aka bartender’s lime
泰國慶寧 - Thai lime, kaffir lime, (citrus hystrix)
I’ll check out Breeze Super though, sounds promising. Thanks for the heads up. I wonder what they use in Thai cooking here? How can you do Thai food without proper limes?
Saw a shop selling nothing but limes this past weekend, except they didn’t look anything like a lime to me, as they were oblong green citrus fruits with very thick skin…?
The shop is located here although on google maps it’s a mobile phone shop maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.0 … 12,0,5.56
They sell fresh and various kinds of preserved versions of whatever the fruit in question is, as well as juice.
[quote=“TheLostSwede”]Saw a shop selling nothing but limes this past weekend, except they didn’t look anything like a lime to me, as they were oblong green citrus fruits with very thick skin…?
The shop is located here although on google maps it’s a mobile phone shop maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.0 … 12,0,5.56
They sell fresh and various kinds of preserved versions of whatever the fruit in question is, as well as juice.[/quote]
I’ve seen (and eaten) a thing which looks and tastes like a mini pomelo - it might be that?
Too big, these are about the size of a local lemon, but longer and with much thicker skin, despite the fact my GF reading the shop name as being a lime shop…
[quote=“Galley Gong Bistro”]
It’s clear that people selling fruit here have no idea what a lime is - and indeed if you ask for a lime using the correct term in Chinese you are met with uncomprehending blankness: What’s a 青檸??[/quote]
they seem to have settled on 無子檸檬 here. limes. easy to get at market.
Yup. Or 無籽檸檬. Same thing, same pronunciation. Look for them at your local market. They’re Persian (or Tahitian) limes; in other words, actual limes like you get with your gin and tonics or caipirinhas back home.
yeah, i made some nice lime ice cream and key lime pie with them this week.
A friend of mine has brought two types of real lime in from Thailand. We’ll be making G&Ts with them this evening. You really do have to put them side by side with what passes for a “lime” here (or “wuzi ningmeng”) to notice just how different they are. All you have on this island are variations on a lemon. Some are sweet, and some are seedless. Limes, however, they are not.
You’d think it would be a doddle to grow them here wouldn’t you? Do lime trees have to be grafted, or will they grow and fruit from seeds?
I’m pretty sure they have to be grafted to bear good fruit.
Limes work best by bud grafting.