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Fruits of Malaysia

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I am going to introduce you to a number of fruits from Malaysia including Mangosteen, Rambutan, Yellow Watermelon and Papaya.

Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana)

If you haven’t heard of this fruit, it has a very hard shell with a purple stain and normally grown in tropical climate mostly in Southeast Asia. However, I have occasionally seen them in Ranch 99 stores in Southern California where they are imported from Thailand. It’s hard to describe the flesh of the fruit but all i can say is it has a firm and somewhat soft white meat with sweet taste and some sourness to it.

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangosteen

Mangosteen at the Market
Mangosteen at the Market
Mangosteen
Mangosteen on the plate

How to Open up a mangosteen?

Hold the mangosteen together with both your palm and squeeze it. You will see a crack along the side of the mangosteen and then peel open half the fruit revealing the white fruits inside. Just dig the fruit out and you got yourself eating it. yum…

Rambutan

It’s a red hairy creature of fruits which has translucent meat with a seed inside after you have peeled the skin. Again, this is another fruit grown in the Southeast Asian countries. I have seen this at our local Southern California Ranch 99 store imported from Thailand.

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambutan

Rambutan on a plate
Rambutan on a plate

The inside of the Rambutan

Rambutan outside of shell with seed
Rambutan outside of shell with seed

Papaya

I am sure you have eaten this one before but have you seen it grown before. This is a common fruit in the southeast Asia and it’s so common that you can grow them in your backyard.

Below, we have the baby papaya plant and also the fully grown papaya with its fruits ready for plucking in a couple of weeks time.

How do you know when it’s ripe? You usually plug it when there is a slight green discoloration to it or else it will fall off the tree and becomes the spoil of the ground. So it’s important to plug it from the tree before it’s ripe and normally it will turn to some sort of yellow green with so slight aroma to it when it’s fully ripe.

Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya

A papaya tree
A papaya Tree
Papaya hanging off plant
Lots of Papaya fruits
The papaya is getting ripe.. probably a few more days before you can munch on it.
The papaya getting ripe.. probably a few more days before you can munch on it.

Watermelon

but his is no ordinary watermelon… scroll down…

Cost of yellow watermelon
Check out the label… oh by the way.. it cost about $4 USD for the yellow watermelon
Cutout of Yellow water melon
Yes, it’s Yellow… It’s a yellow watermelon… I don’t believe i have ever seen them in the US. Correct me if i am wrong.

Yellow watermelons lack lycopene, which is the chemical that produces a reddish color in fruits and vegetables like tomatoes and red grapefruit.
Cutout of Yellow water melon
Cutout of Yellow watermelon
Nicely bite size of yellow watermelon
Don’t forget it’s a lot sweeter than the usual red watermelon. Lots of Vitamin A and C

Places To Visit

Zoo Negara (Malaysia National Zoo)
Food of Malaysia
Petronas Twin Tower, Malaysia

4 thoughts on “Fruits of Malaysia”

  1. Big Al says:
    August 7, 2019 at 5:53 pm

    The mangosteen fruit looks like a hard boiled egg inside! I’ve never seen one of those.

  2. Joe says:
    August 9, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    My Favorite fruit.

  3. Joe says:
    August 9, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    Mangosteen is my favorite fruit.

  4. Boon says:
    August 11, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    Now i know what to send you for christmas!!

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