Cuisine of Indonesia
Senin, 24 September 2007 by Breadley
The pomelo (or Chinese grapefruit, pummelo, pommelo, jabong, boongon, shaddock, Jeruk Bali or suha), Citrus maxima (Merr., Burm. f.), also Citrus grandis (L.), is a citrus fruit, usually a pale green to yellow when ripe, larger than a grapefruit, with sweet flesh and thick spongy rind.
The pomelo is also known as a shaddock, after an English sea captain, Captain Shaddock, who introduced the seed to the West Indies in the 17th century from the Malay Archipelago. In the Pacific and Asia, it is known as jabong and in Chinese it is called yòuzi (柚子) (not to be confused with the yuzu, which uses the same Chinese characters but is a different species), while it is called som o (ส้มโอ) in Thai, and buntan or banpeiyu in Japanese. In Burmese it is called kywègaw thee in the south and shaupann thee in upcountry.
The pomelo is also known as a shaddock, after an English sea captain, Captain Shaddock, who introduced the seed to the West Indies in the 17th century from the Malay Archipelago. In the Pacific and Asia, it is known as jabong and in Chinese it is called yòuzi (柚子) (not to be confused with the yuzu, which uses the same Chinese characters but is a different species), while it is called som o (ส้มโอ) in Thai, and buntan or banpeiyu in Japanese. In Burmese it is called kywègaw thee in the south and shaupann thee in upcountry.