More About Fruits

We are still finishing off some of the items we acquired for dinner the other week. All three of these items were supplied by our guests.

We have now opened the kiwi juice. As so many other drinks here, it is pretty seriously sweetened (mmmm). It sort of tastes like a green apple jolly rancher. I had never realized how much kiwi and green apples tasted the same. Or maybe it is sugar that tastes the same...

This is an unripe, nonastringent type of persimmon. What's that mean? Well, there seem to be 2 major kinds of varieties, astringent and nonastringent. An astringent persimmon must be jelly soft before it is fit to eat. A nonastringent persimmon can be eaten when it is crisp as an apple. Both kinds (I believe) are green at first and then ripen to a variety of orange/red colors. Also, when the fruit is ripe, the pulp softens to a pudding like consistancy. So far we have tried one of our "Sweet Crisp Persimmons" (as labeled on the package. It did not have a strong flavor, but the texture was similar to a slightly unripe plum.


This green star fruit was new to both of us. Yellow star fruit we've seen, but green? In this case, these guys were more sour then sweet, but otherwise very similar to the star fruits back home. It actually had a little bit of a pith down the center, so Cara ended up eating it like an apple. Was much fun.