L.A. Times - Food & Dining: Wax apples come to Temple City, Pasadena farmers markets

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Wax apples come to Temple City, Pasadena farmers markets Aug 24th 2013, 07:00, by By David Karp Farmers Markets: Wax apples, popular in Taiwan, are uncommon in Southern California. But now Lung Ke Wu is growing and selling them here. In a hardscrabble district of South El Monte, near a decommissioned missile site, tucked away behind a warehouse filled with Chinese sunglasses, lies a secret orchard bearing a rare and mysterious Asian fruit. It's the work of a wealthy Taiwanese man, Lung Ke Wu, who drilled holes in the asphalt to plant his own paradise and who is now causing jaws to drop when he sells the fruit, called wax apples, at farmers markets. Media files: 16x9

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