Welcome to Exotic Fruit-land

Bananas and duku (the small brown fruit to the right
of the bananas)

Southeast Asia overflows with all kinds of exotic, delicious fruit! We've had tiny fingerling bananas - very sweet and soft, mangosteens (delectable!), tamarind (huge interior seed), duku (yum!), green mango (sour and crunchy - used in salads a lot or with a spicy chili dip), and of course, lots of sweet mango and pineapple.

Duku (or langsat?)

Duku - or langsat - (two very similar varieties) are a super tasty little brown fruit, each smaller than a golf ball. Super tasty and sweet, they are usually sold as a cluster on a vine - like large hard-skinned grapes. They are pretty easy to peel though, and the skin isn't very thick. The fruit inside is not very sticky, and firm like the outside of a grape.

Mangosteens are the round purple-brown fruit
at the bottom of this picture

Mangosteen

Mangosteens are also super tasty, and very different from duku. They have a thick purply outer rind (the darker the purple, the better) - and inside the rind is a brilliant red. The white fruit is softly slimy, and tangy, sweet and super tasty. From what I read online, they are also  extremely nutritious and good for you.

Dragonfruit are the crazy big pink things,
with rambutan behind them (the little round
spiny pinkish orange fruit)

We have yet to try durian - a spiny fruit with an awful smell (so awful it's not allowed on trains), dragonfruit, and rambutan. Also gotta eat some lychee!

So much to eat, so little time...