What Is It?
The world is getting smaller and smaller everyday, as the song goes. And that is true. You can go around the world much lesser time than 80 days as the classic film says.
People are not the only one to travel. Animals, vegetables and minerals also jetset or cruise to anywhere in the world.
Below is our list of the weird and wonderful travellers from across the globe.
Cook’s Glossary: Fruits & Veg
| English | Scientific Name | Tagalog (T)
Ilocano (I) |
Ch/Chinese
JP/Japan SK/South Korean India (In) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artichoke | Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus | ||
|
Persea americana | Abokado (T)
Abukadu (I) |
Abokado (JP) |
| Bitter Gourd/Bitter Melon/Balsam Pear/ Bitter Squash | Momordica charantia | Ampalaya (T)
Parya (I) |
Karela (In), Kugua (Ch), Yeoju (SK), Nigauri (JP) |
| Brussels Sprouts, Brussel Sprouts | |||
| Calabash, Bottle Gourd | Lagenaria siceraria | Upo (T) | |
| Cherries | Seresa | ||
| Adidas | |||
| Cottonfruit | Sandoricum koetjape | Santol (T) | |
| Flat Green Beans also known as Helda Beans & Romano Beans | |||
| Jicama | Pachyrhizus erosus | Singkamas | Doushu/Liang shu (Ch) |
| Langsat, Lanzones |
Lansium parasiticum |
Lanzones | |
| Mango | |||
| Passion Fruit | Manga | ||
| Persimmon, Sharon Fruit | |||
| Pili Nut | Canarium ovatum | Pili Nut | |
| Pomelo | Suha (T) Dugmon (I) | ||
| Strawberry | |||
| Tomato | Solanum lycopersicum | Kamatis | |
| Velvet Apple/Velvet Persimmon | Diospyros Discolor | Mabolo | |
