How To Cut, Peel and Eat Buoi/Pomelo

Warning: If you don't like the music please turn the volume down. When you see tangerines, kumquats, persimmons and pomelos appear on the markets' tables, especially in Chinatown, it's a sign that Lunar or Chinese New Year or Tet (Vietnamese New Year) is near. Lunar New Year comes around middle or late January or beginning of February. Tangerine is eaten after the skin is peeled, kumquat is eaten whole after the fruit is washed. Unlike Grapefruit, pomelo has a thick skin, but it's sweet, fragrant and delicious. Pomelo is a very common and popular fruit in Viet Nam, and of course, I learned how to cut, peel and eat pomelo from my mother.

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• Fruits
• Viet Nam
• citrus fruits
• buoi
• Asian fruits.

[fanaticofutube]

The music goes good especially when he starts cutting it. Almost like a scary movie...

[6262742]

@fanaticofutube She not he.

[rib0]

I got one in my organics box, and used this method to peel it. It took about an hour to get all the meat out, then it gave me diarrhea 2h after I ate it.

[6262742]

@rib0Were your hands clean when you peel it?

[DorPurseFreak]

My Neighbor has a Pomelo Tree it Gives Fruit 2 X's a Yr. I tried 1 & I couldn't eat it ..... too strong of a Taste. So I use it to make the House smell good. I run it in the Garbage Desposal & I use the White part of the Rind like a Mr Clean Magic Eraser to clean the INSIDEs of my Sinks. I don't want them to go to waste I get about 150 In the Fall & Summer... So I can only use so much

[6262742]

@DorPurseFreak Why don't you give them to your friends? I wish that I were your neighbor's friend. Hehe! Thanks for writing.

[illtrax]

Seen a Pomelo at the store and my friend asked, "What is that thing?" I said, "Don't know, I'll Google it".... girl at the check out counter asked the same thing... told her the same =] Glad I bought one.... going to put some creepy music on and peel it now.

[escaflowne3]

hilarious choice of music

[Bizhan85]

@rib0 body takes approx. 6 hours to digest. yur diarrhea came from elsewhere

[ozdemir5911]

@19sweetandbrown86 that's exactly what i thought.

[ozdemir5911]

I'm eating pomelo right now. But mine doesn't look like this. It's more like yellowish-green.

[PlatinumKate]

I came for the pomelo, I stayed for the suspenseful music.

[19sweetandbrown86]

I just tried one yesterday and I love these.  This tastes like a sweet grapefruit to me. No need to add the sugar!

[BlakiepooTube]

Good to learn, but the music made me feel like I was watching a butcher cut and tear apart the corpse of an animal.

[rib0]

@6262742 Heh, yeah, I think it was just that I ate the whole thing on an empty stomach :)