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Q: Which fruit can you find in your country but not in China?

Just recently for example my students said they couldn't find the prune. The californian prune to be exact. 

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salal berries may be a little hard to find here...I never seen any.

http://www.ucluelet.travel/blog/salal-berries

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Saskatoon berries, crab apples. never saw blue berries. I did see the biggest banana I've ever seen in China

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that wasn't a banana

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paw-paw fruit ( a huge NA banana sorta), urucu, ugli, monster fruit ( monstera deliciosa),

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BHGAL, it wasn't in my pocket

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I never saw avocado or artichoke. They have prunes though, covered in sugar.

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I bought a couple of avocados the other day. They were absolutely delicious! Mind you, they were absurdly overpriced. This, along with the Chinese lack of experience with them meant they all went bad (I was monitoring them very closely!!). Such a shame...

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They have imported prunes from the US. (Del Monte) I buy them regularly from the local grocery store in the imported foods section which is quite small.

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Fruit of the Loom.  Although I did see some Fruit of the Womb once.

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A lime for my damn corona !

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I could never get Corona. I see it on menus, but they always come back and say they don't have them.

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I actually did find one expat bar in Hangzhou where the Corona was served with a lime.  Then I remembered I preferred Guiness, which they also had.  Yum :P

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They do have prunes here, in great variety, from out west.

 

They do have blueberries, in the Dong Bei, and they are very seasonal and highly expensive.

 

I have never, ever found French-style "cassis" here. That is one fruit that I have not found.

 

 

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There is a more important problem: fruits in China are rather tasteless, i mean, their taste and smell are rather weak. Maybe, it is due to hydroponick vegetation, they are not naturally grown.

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Quince or medlar

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I'm Indian and there's a fruit called Sapota (Chickoo) in our country thats hard to find here in China. Its a tropical fruit so thought at least should get it in Hainan but was disappointed.

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Plums for example did not see here. 

981977405:

All over the place in season....truly all over the place!  I can't believe that you have ever seen any of them.

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I saw something similar, but their are not same as ours, oval shaped and incredibly sweet, not the big and super-sour which is on sale here.

This is the one, favorite of mine :  

 

And, we use them for making famous Slivovitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz

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no Lime

 

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In the open air market on the street behind my house in our gated community, the fruit vendors carries limes all the time -- lemons, limes, etc., etc.  In winter they are quite expensive (more expensive than in the States) but during the warmer weather, they are quite reasonable.  From Hainan and Guangxi provinces, I think, some imported from S.E. Asian countries.

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And, another i remind myself : 

Goosberry

 

Red- and Blackcurrant , great for cakes :

 

I miss my grandmas' tasty cakes Smile

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Raspberries cool

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Raspberries cool

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organic fruit

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You can buy what is purported to be organically grown fruit here but as I said "purportedly".  You will pay a hefty price for it, too!

 

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