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ladyt

What is Jack fruit and can all of these ingredients be found in the US?

UncAnni

Oooh, it sounds excellent, and the picture is great, hehe. What's the purple stuff though? And yeah, ladyt, you can get all that stuff here. I would look in the organic fruits section, of your grocery, and the cultural foods aisle also. I've never had this before, so I'm definitely trying it some time. Do you think it would come out alright with less crushed ice, more ice cream, and a little bit of milk, mixed as that part-- a little thinner than milk shake consistency?

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SimplyA

what a coincidence. My girlfriend is philipino, and tomorow she is coming over for dinner. what a nice surprise this would be. Now i just got to find where to get the ingredients

Tagaluto

A jack fruit looks like this:


and the tree looks like this:


From the research I made, Jack fruits are rarely available fresh in the US for they are mostly grown in Asian countries, although it can be found in Asian grocery stores canned already.

And the good thing in halo-halo is that you can mix any fruits that you like and you can experiment. The difference between fruit salad and halo-halo is that halo-halo has crushed ice while fruit salad has salad cream.

The purple stuff is the Cooked Ube (Purple Potato or Sweet Yam). I'm not sure if this also available in the US. But as I always say, you make an experiment with any available fruits that you have. Just don't mix sour fruit with sweet fruits. I never tried it but I think it will end up bad.

home_buddy

Wow! I think this is a special Halo-halo tagaluto. When I am preparing halo-halo for my family I want it to have more ice and milk and less fruits.

Chef Caine

You can buy jackfruit in a jar at most Asian stores. I use it all the time to make turon. You should be able to find everyting else at an Asian store or large supermarket, but if you can't, like all Pilipino recipes, just wing it!

BTW, I have never considerd halo halo an appetizer. It's dessert, or a special treat, like an ice cream sundae or a banana split on a hot summer afternoon or evening in the US.

My son used to love it in the afternoons. His grandmother's neighbor used to sell it from their front yard, and he was always begging pesos from relatives gathered for their share of his mother's balik bayan (or balik yabang? ) so he could go buy one.

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