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Let Me introduce you to Gowok aka Kupa/Kepa aka Syzygium Polycephalum

The truth is I've been reading about this fruit for years but I never taste it until today😊

mature fruit and taste less sour

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My hubby takes me out to buy some snacks for football match live on tv tonight, we plan to buy mini onde-onde or fried rice ball at Serua. Unfortunately, the seller is taking a day off today😢 so we decided to look for another seller around. We went far west but none sells the mini onde-onde. While keep searching for the seller and the carts, My Hubby stops his motorbike and said "what about gowok?" and turn back to a fruit stall and park right in front of the shirtless big fat man who touch some purple fruit. I went in and asked "what fruit is this?" He said "Gowok". "How does it taste?

Sour😑 said the fruit seller

okay... gimme half kilo then😉 I tasted one and it's not sour for me😀

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Hubby asked me after I paid for the fruit $2 a kilogram wasn't that the fruit you saw few days ago in Cinere? .. I don't know because I haven't had time to see it closely at that time.

What is Gowok?

I think it's something like jaboticaba in Brazil but actually this is a native fruit to South East Asia. In Indonesia, this fruit has several names and can be found in Java, Sulawesi and Kalimantan island. Never found this fruit in my hometown. And off course I never seen the tree too😊

since this fruit belongs to myrteceae tribe, the flesh is juicy and soft

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It has one seed and better not eat the seed😉 taste bitter. A friend told me to eat the whole fruit with salt and chayenne or soy ketchup😊 but I like the sour taste😆 without the purple skin. The purple skin quite thick.

I read some articles on google about this fruit, but only wikipedia indonesia has a short explanation about it. I think there is another name except syzygium polychepalum. It has a medium tall tree, about 8-20 metres height and could lived on 200-1800 m above sea level. The only way to grow it only with seed. We can eat it raw and fresh or make gowok setup😊

I have enough seed to try to grow a gowok tree😊

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If you ever eat water apple the taste is almost similar. For my hubby, he can tolerates the sour taste now eventhough when he was a kid he said he likes it. The Gowok tree has red colour and useful to make furniture.

Been living in Pamulang, Banten for almost 4 years, this is the first time I found the fruit😨 I think not many trees around or people don't really enjoy the taste. I like it! At least it's not as sour as bilimbi😂

I think I need to try to make gowok setup or compote too

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But maybe later if I found more fruits😊 I'll eat those half kilo fruits myself now😂

Have you ever seen or eat Gowok or Kupa before?

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