fruitde raisin · résineux · de ziste d’agrumes · aigrelet · musqué

Wampi

Un cousin d’agrume gros comme un grain de raisin : entre litchi et pamplemousse, mais c’est le pamplemousse qui gagne.

on its own

3.0sour

2.0sweet

0.0savoury

2.0bitter

0.0umami

order · canon first

1 of these 9 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

9 pairings for Wampi.

classic

A Cantonese street habit: a pinch on the tart skin turns it savoury before it is sour.

classic

Preserved whole in syrup, skin and all, which is how most of the crop is actually eaten.

common

Two citrus-family sours side by side; the wampee reads milder and grapier by comparison.

common

Warm root against a fruit whose bitterness sits mostly in the skin, not the flesh.

common

Salted dried-plum powder is the classic market dip for the raw fruit, pith and all.

uncommon

Cooked down with the skins on, the bitterness turns into a syrup Guangdong still trusts for a cough.

uncommon

Warm spice against citrus-pith bitterness in the syrup the whole cluster gets preserved in.

rare

Grapey citrus pith is close enough to the botanicals to work macerated straight into the spirit.

wild

Raw brine against sour citrus pith, a Cantonese answer to lemon on shellfish.