There was a rush on chameh melons yesterday at the Greenmarket near the UN. After shoppers tasted a bite, they had to try one ($1/pound, Yuno's Farms).
These small yellow melons are perfect for small refrigerators, where a watermelon just won't fit.
Peel these melons with a vegetable peeler. Serve chameh very cold and eat the white fruit, the seeds, and the delicious cooling gel around the seeds.
Yuno's sign describes chameh this way: "Distinctive Asian melon with crisp texture and refreshing sweetness." The texture is more like a young cucumber.
Shoppers at the market talked about adding chameh to salads. It makes a refreshing light breakfast too. We can vouch for that, we're crunching through half a chameh as we write.
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but don't have too many, or you'll get the runs. chameh is a popular fruit in korea during summer time and parents always tell their kids not to have too many : )
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so yum!
i remember staying with a host family for a night in korean one summer when i was 11. we took a drive to the countryside, got out at a melon farm, took off our shoes and climbed a ladder into an open air structure on stilts with a fabric roof as shade, and the farmer's wife brought out chilled chameh, and sat with us as she sliced and served it to us. i didn't speak much korean, and the host family didn't speak a lot of english, so i sort of just felt carried along this experience with little explanation, though it seemed like the most natural thing to do. although it wasn't the first time i'd eaten chameh, this is a very dreamy, yet visceral memory evoked every time i eat it.
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