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Word: rambutan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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What most sets H-E-B apart is its canny customization of stores. At the H-E-B in Houston's Alief section, live tilapia and catfish swim in a tank in the seafood department, and fresh lemongrass and rambutan are stacked in the produce aisle--all favorites of Alief's large Asian community. In San Antonio's Deco-District there are fresh-baked pan dulce and nopalitos, an edible part of a cactus plant, for the area's many Hispanic shoppers. And in Houston's Westchase H-E-B, Indian shoppers can pick up aromatic ajwain and black mustard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Texas Grocer Thrives Down in Old Mexico | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...dark, this is a positively inspired pairing: gooey glutinous rice suffused with circulation-clogging salty (no, seriously) coconut milk, rounded off by that most sensual of tropical fruits, the musky mango. All they had were some dubiously Thai ice creams (green tea?) and Thai fruit (lychee, rambutan, longan). The ice creams were priced...

Author: By Darryl J. Wee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sugar & Spice and Everything Nice? | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...American taste buds, inspired by kiwis and mangoes, are now into freaky fruit like rambutan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exotic Fruit | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

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