A person first falling into Southeast Asia, at the sight of local fruits, usually is experiencing shock. Longans, lychee, rambutans, mangosteins, tamarinds - sometimes it is not clear how it is something hairy, pupil, with spikes or in small barns. And this is not to mention the usual bananas, pineapples, oranges. Although I personally have surprise that these, it seems to be relatives and close fruits. Because here they are with a noticeable taper focus. Watermelon with a yellow core or banana with bone, - Agree, it is impressive.
Although summer in Thailand is a year round, some incomprehensible (at least personally for me), the time of the season of one fruit is replaced by the reign of another.
At first, it is not clear how it is something hairy ...
To understand that at some point it came, for example, the mango is time, at their price. From 100 baht kilograms they are cheaper than 35. But then it also suddenly takes off up. True, having lived in Thailand a year and a half (at the moment), I never learned to understand, at what month one or another fruit matures. And the information that is published for tourists for some reason absolutely does not coincide with what I see in reality.
... and pupil.
... But what time would you come to Thailand, always and everywhere you will meet him, the most amazing and unique fruit. OND fold about him, they arrange festivals in his honor. However, it is his stricken forbidden to carry to the hotel and on board the aircraft, threatening huge fines. Durian has long been a real legend, which literally everyone advises to try when visiting the country of smiles.
Pineapples in Thailand are such a number of varieties that eye disassemble.
So, I confess as in spirit: Durian, who is called the "king of fruit", I personally have not yet proged. It is believed that he is terrible on the smell, but the perfect taste. Faceless Durian is really disgusting. Someone believes - dirty socks. But personally, I like such a definition, which I found from the Unnamed British traveler of the XIX century. Here is a quote from his travel notes according to Siam: "It is akin to eating herring with a cheese with mold over an open sewerhouse."
With Durian stricter, it is forbidden to take place in the hotels - because his vice smell does not turn to the end.
In short, he is still fruit. Why is such an excitement around him? I have no answer. No matter how much I, overcoming squeezing and internal discomfort, did not try it, the reaction is the same: Fu, what a muck. And the point is not even in the smell (if it happened, some French cheeses are not inferior in this regard to Duriana). Just in this case, it seems to me that the name is exactly true. In short, fool us, there is such a suspicion. And under the shell of the "king of fruits", something sweet with the taste of garlic and bow. One remains incomprehensible: why the Thais themselves eat Durian with great, must be said, appetite.
Yellow watermelons Our children adore.
Perhaps the truth will open me somehow later. Well, while our children prefer something more traditional - grapes or yellow watermelons. Yes, and I myself, to return to my prenatal sizes, at some point almost completely switched to an apple-watermelon diet. However, this was not enough, and then the Thai stuff came to the rescue ...
Continued ...
Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.