Posts Tagged ‘hk super’

Grenade Plums and Emerald Plums in Korean

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Is there a difference between grenade plums and emerald plums? Too lazy to google it. You can click on the pictures to enlarge and take a closer look.

Grenade Plums What’s curious though is that at HanKook Market they label the grenade plums as 파인아플자두 (“pineapple” plums). They transliterated the English word pineapple! Again, too lazy to research this now.

Emerald Plums Right next to the grenades were the emerald plums, which sounds almost the same in Korean: 에머랄드자두 (eh-mo-ral-duh jadoo). Jadoo is the Korean for ‘plum’. Do you see the plastic green lemons right above them?

Anyway, fruit is a real deal at HK Supermarket. Both these plums are just 99 cents a pound. Produce of USA.

Donut White Peaches in Korean

Monday, August 10th, 2009

More fruit with cute names at HK Super. After the dinosaur egg plums, I encountered these donut white peaches, which are not that uncommon a sight in Southern California. They’re simply called doughnut peaches or white peaches. On the sign, the name was translated literally into Korean as 도넛백도복숭아 (donut white peach).

Donut White Peaches

99 cents per pound. Product of USA

You can see them below the mangoes and pistachios in the picture above. (Click to enlarge.)

Don’t ask me why the grocery clerks arrange the produce like that — the display works aesthetically. Maybe there’s a tradition of serving certain nuts with certain fruit that I’m not aware of. Give me a snack bar.