What kind did he smuggle in? Kaffir limes? Key limes?
[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 bought some and had some of the lime juice.
I thought they were real limes, but then again I don’t have much experience with them. They definitely called them ‘laimu’. 
Not real limes, but yesterday the Tianmu Jason’s was selling those little lime-sized green bottles of “Real Lime” juice. I’ve used those before in Thai dishes, and they’re an improvement on the lemon juice that I usually have on hand, but obviously not as good as freshly-squeezed limes.
Mind you, I bought the last three bottles on the shelf. (With baking ingredients, if I recall correctly.)
This is the limes in the lime shop I found, very strange looking things
Ah this whole lime / lemon thing is a good laugh!
I wonder if they just pick the lemons early, or if its a variation that doesnt turn yellow? I was with my friend earlier and she actually ate some lime in a restaurant earlier and thought it was lemon. I tried to explain it was actually lime but no dice…
The ones eaten in Taiwan are typically green lemons, I think, not limes. I’ve never ever seen a real lime, of any sort, in a restaurant.
TLS: did they taste like the standard Key lime/Persian lime?
You can get limes easily in traditional markets. They’re called “seedless lemons” that is “wuzi ningmeng.” They’re thin and deep green skinned, green fleshed, seedless limes. You have to be on the lookout though for what I suspect without any evidence whatsoever is a careless “liuding” hybrid. These look the same and are sold under the same moniker but prove upon the denouement to have seeds and a very off (not the traditional atrocious “green lemon” either) flavor.
That’s the standard commercial Persian lime, innit? It’s the one we get most often in the UK, anyway. I’ve seen them once or twice here but not very often.
Markets around here (Beitou area) always have them, nothing special about around here I assume. They must be being grown locally now. Here’s one lime err line on some facebook.com/pages/%E7%84%A … 1597982737
Are limes hard to find in Taiwan? Seriously? I’ve never had a problem finding limes in Taiwan and I know what a real lime is. I eat them all the time since they are used quite often in Mexican food.
In the limelight?
[quote=“finley”]The ones eaten in Taiwan are typically green lemons, I think, not limes. I’ve never ever seen a real lime, of any sort, in a restaurant.
TLS: did they taste like the standard Key lime/Persian lime?[/quote]
It was vietnam food. Thin skin…lime.
Ive seen limes in supermarkets from time to time, they exist but seems a lot of people cannot tell the difference.