Hi Monkeys, don't think that these fruits are mangoes! If you smell like a of mine it means you are the cousin of so-and-so who married my cousin, i.e. we are distant relatives.
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Tambun nearby Ipoh of Perak is said to be famous for . Actually there are also many from Tenom, Sabah. The Chinese serve it with tea and mooncakes during the Mooncake Festival.
Ha, there are many trees at my backyard. All as skinny as me and darn sour, so we have to use them to make jam only. Moths like to give birth to caterpillars on the leaves. Too bad we don't know the technique of weaving silk. Otherwise, I would have boiled all the pupae. Heh, heh, heh.
My mouth waters when I see a which is bigger than my palm in Kundasang. When I open it, the flesh tastes unripe. How unfortunate!
Usually, I don't fancy fried food, but fried with fried bananas and fried sweet potatoes plus hot kopi 'kau' ...Wow!
are indeed as sour as vinegar. But local people here like to add vinegar to pickle them before eating them. My eyes close up thinking of them.
Don't insist this is rambutan or I shall twist your ears. To read more about this fruit, click here.
Plantain. What is its name in Malay language? Since plantain is a sort of cooking banana ( though we cannot say all bananas are plantain ), it is simply called pisang in Malaysia and Indonesia. If you want be fussy about the names of a specific plantain here's three examples that I manage to find:
Reference: Infomusa, Volumes 13-15. International Network for Improvement of Banana and Plantain, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (Ede, Netherlands), International Development Research Centre (Canada)