The market · Fruit · East Asia, Southern Europe
Persimmons
An autumn fruit that's either astringent or sweet by variety: one must be jelly-soft before it's eaten, the other is crisp like an apple.
honeyed · jammy · sweet
just inKinds
- Hachiya type
- Acorn-shaped and mouth-puckering until it's completely soft.
- Fuyu type / Sharon fruit
- Squat and non-astringent — eat it firm.
- Dried
- Hoshigaki in Japan, gotgam in Korea — hung and massaged until sugary.
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Knowing it
- Where to buy
- Supermarkets as Sharon fruit or kaki; East Asian grocers for the rest.
