| Agar-agar – jello
made out of seaweed, much firmer than the kind you get in hospitals. |
Buah Mo Far Kor –
prepackaged & sold along with candies & other snacks, this
comes in a plastic vial like a medicine container & has a picture
of some retro-50s looking Chinese guy on the cover. Ingredients are
sugar, salt, liquorice, acid, preservative fruit. The contents look
like shriveled up little scabs. They taste like salty-sweet (but mostly
salty) bits of soft leather. I suspect that this is a local replacement
for chewing gum. |
Dragon fruit
– very dramatic on the outside, bright red w/ green scaly things
sorta like an artichoke, only not. Under the skin it's rather subtle
sweet flavor, white flesh w/ black seeds all over, sorta like the
crunchy seediness texture of certain parts of the kiwi. About the
size of a large mango. |
Mmmmmm....
Durian – spikey football-shaped fruit with big white-slime-covered
knuckles inside, tastes like sweet snot, repeats on you. Hard to stomach.
People claim that you have to try this 4 times before you like it,
& it's true, it actually becomes more appealing every time. That's
me reveling in the aroma of durian, and Ingrid, preparing to gobble
them up. |
This is the egg-man. I
am the walrus. Goo-goo-ga-joo. |
Quail eggs. |
Salt eggs. Make
them into really bright, really salty hard boiled eggs. There's also
century eggs, which are packed in something brown...maybe it's dirt,
maybe it's manure, I've heard both possibilities. Anyway, the whites
of century eggs become almost black & the yolks turn green. Strangely
enough, they're quite tasty. |
Mangosteen – a smallish
plum colored & sized fruit with a thick bitter skin, underneath
is a tangy yummy small white fruit. Not related to the mango at all.This
fruit tastes like ambrosia. Heavenly. |
Rambutan –
hairy on the outside, juicy on the inside. Yummy flavor, entertaining
package. Kinda like a lychee, but with hair. Rambu means hair in Malay. |
The remains
of my lunch. |
Silak –
fruit or animal? Has skin like a snake, which you peel for a pale
yellowish fruit. Doesn’t taste that good, but looks impressive.
|
Soursop –
globular-shaped scaley-skinned fruit, around the size of a small papaya,
with flesh that tastes like a pineapple, kind of, only squishy-spongier.
White flesh with black small-almond-sized seeds. |
A collection
of tropical fruit. Silak, mangosteen, rose apple, and rambutan. Rose
apple – can be either red or green. Refreshing, juicy. Yummy,
but doesn’t really taste like a tropical fruit. |
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