Hands down Thailand has some amazing fruit! Fresh fruit carts line almost any street you walk down making a cold, sliced mango or watermelon a perfect snack on a hot day. Throughout the year I was introduced to many fruits I had never seen before as they came into season. Here are some of my favorites:
Dragon Fruit, the most unique looking of all the fruits, has a rather bland but refreshing flavor. Maybe a cousin to a Kiwi.
On the far right we have rose apples, which in my mind taste exactly like their name. Crunchy like an apple but with a subtle sweet rose flavor. In the middle, one of my favorites from the states and Thailand, Mangos. Top left: Dragon fruit again and Far Left: classic oranges.
Yummy classics Bananas and Watermelon!
Pictures taken from Kerry because I'm too lazy to take my own pictures..
I ate these for weeks, Rambutans! They are a spiky soft round fruit with an egg-like center. The fruit is very sweet and I can devour a bag within minutes. The only nuisance is an almond shaped seed in the middle that Kerry describes perfectly as a "wood chip" since the shell of it peels off when you try to take it out tasting similar to a wood piece.
These might be my favorite fruit in Thailand, Mangosteen. They came into season a few months ago and have now past..sad! They have a doily type top and thick outer shell. The middle contains a soft sweet fruit with a few big seeds. Unlike the states fruit is only available when it is season and most of it grown in a field next to where they sell it.
Fresh and delicious Arroy Mak Mak!!
**other fruits not pictures but are worthy of mention: Guava in thai called Farang (the name they use for foreigners), Tarmarind- similar to a dried apricot and the fruit that just came into season full force Longan a small ball shaped fruit. .
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