RE: FRUITS AND VEGGIES MONDAY - 61ST : MY HOT MANGO SALSA
At least we have 31 kind of mangoes in the world now, so many cultivars try to produce the best mango. Even in Taiwan where mango is not their local fruit, now they have many great taste mangoes too.
Off course.. India is still the first country in the world which produces so many mangoes for the world. Many of Indonesian mangoes came from India before the local cultivars cross-breed (i don't know the right word for plant😂) those mangoes though we still have our spesific mangoes too.
You can find half-ripe mangoes in the supermarket, even its well-ripe also good for mango salsa, you can add onion and cinnamon too if you like it. Better use fresh cayenne then the powder.
About Mango Alley, there are 10 houses there and we have 12 kind of mangoes😊 including my "embacang tree" at that time, but now we have 3 mango trees in my parent's yard and none of those 3 from the same kind too, but the embacang trees was cut down when my father decided to make another room and kitchen😢 in 1998, and since then.. I never ate any embacang like ours anywhere.
Wow - 31 varieties of mangoes!
Not around here and that's for sure! Of course I probably couldn't tell from looking at one.
I looked up embacang and it led me to bacang which looks like a fruit, partly like a mango and partly like a papaya. But it's probably a kind of mango? Google doesn't let me taste it!
The mangoes I have tasted had only a mild flavor, nothing to get excited about. I think they were not picked fresh from the tree when I got one. And probably not ripened on the tree either. Tomorrow is a farmer's market here and I will ask if they have mangoes. I will find out if any grow around here or if they are brought from other countries.