The Wonderful Fruits of Thailand

Here are some of my favorite

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Here we have rambutan(the red, hairy one), Durian (prickly skin, "smells like hell, tastes like heaven" and is smelling-up my house as I write this, and farang, which is sorta like a big sour apple. The Thais eat it with a sugar-pepper mixture.

Ah, mangosteen...The first time I saw it I thought it was way too ugly to eat. Now, I can't get enough of it. It has a delicious taste, a little like sweet custard. A Must Try if you ever get to Thailand.

Here is star fruit, young coconut, longan and noi na' (the knobby ones).the ones with the branches attached are lynchees. The best ones are from Lampang, in the north .Noi na' is knobby outside with a sweet inside. The inside is filled with hard black seeds and the fruit between the seeds is very tasty and sweet. The proper way to eat it is to rub the outside away and eat the inside. If you can't rub the outside off, it is not ripe enough to eat. The seeds are too hard to eat and only the fruit between the seeds is fit to eat. If you've never had the juice of a young, green coconut, you haven't lived. I have spent many a lazy day on the beach at Koh Samui drinking the juice and then spooning out the soft coconut meat. The best way is either fresh and cold or slightly roasted over a fire. YUM!