Fruits

I asked a lot of people whether they've seen or tasted some of my hometown's local tropical fruits before-----and I was so surprised that a lot of people didn't know! Well well, I've decided to post some info on these fruits:

There are many English names for this fruit: wax apple, love apple, java apple, royal apple, bellfruit, Jamaican apple, water apple, mountain apple, cloud apple, wax jambu, rose apple, and bell fruit.

They taste absolutely AMAZING. We have a tree in our yard back in Hainan. Sometimes we even took some flowers to sniff because the fat sepals of the flowers smell so fruity just like the fruit!

This is a jackfruit! Funny name, eh? It looks sorta like a durian...but the taste is very different. Jackfruit tastes really really sweet and juicy, unlike durian which is kinda mushy. The thorns on a jackfruit are actually not that prickly. Oh, and when you eat a jackfruit, it is best to soak the fruit in salt-water before you eat it, because the freshly cut jackfruit can produce a sticky substance which can stick to your finger. If you get that substance on your hand, you usually clean it with cooking oil.

These are magosteens. They have purple shells and really juicy flesh (white). Don't eat the flesh if it has yellow thingys in it. That means the fruit might be bad. But anyways, really delicious!

These are Rambutans. They have red shells with hair-like fuzzy thingys, and firm juicy flesh. One of my favorite tropic fruits. The shells may be kinda hard to open sometimes. You have to squeeze it between your fingers to open it so you can eat the fruit.

This is MIRACLE FRUIT! Yep that's the name for the fruit. It has white flesh. If you eat one and then eat a lemon, the lemon will turn sweet! This fruit can turn sour things into sweet things! Really cool eh?

I haven't found the English name for these fruits yet, but in Chinese they are called "Egg fruit". The flesh tastes like egg yolk (quite gross in my opinion, so don't try it!)

These are called wampees. They taste sour and sweet (I guess more sour than sweet). One of my mom's favorite fruits XD

These are called sugar apples! They taste amazing! The flesh is white with many seeds. Really juicy and sweet. But easy to squish as well! You can't store them for too long!

These are the fruits from a STRAWBERRY TREE. Funny name, eh? My neighbor back in China has one in his yard and he would let us take some fruits from the tree when they are ripe :P Taste really good, and each fruit is about the size of a blueberry.

These are naseberries. They aren't exactly one of my favorites...they taste pretty okay, but in my opinion the texture is a bit like corn starch. Has brown sugar taste :p

And I am pretty sure you've seen/heard of other tropical fruits such as coconut, starfruit, dragonfruit, passion fruit, etc. But the ones above aren't as well-known as the others. Hhehehehe. Hope you enjoyed today's word/picture blog!