A kumquat is a fruit that looks like a very small orange — small enough that you can hold several in one hand. The skin is bright orange. Unlike a normal orange, people often eat the skin too: the skin is the sweet part, and the inside is more sour. You can eat it whole, cook it into jam, or steep it in tea. It is not a baby orange; it is its own fruit, though shops sometimes sell it next to the citrus. In Taiwan you will meet it a lot in winter, especially as a snack or as tea. There are a few shapes: some round, some a little longer, like a tiny egg.

金棗（台灣最常這樣叫；書面或對岸較常說金橘）