Thailand: exotic fruits that cantry only there. What is durian, mangosteen, dragon – howto choose and eat them?

Пн, 07 май 2018 Автор: Татьяна Поленова

Going to Thailand? Get ready – there is something
try it out!

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Durian

As soon as they do not call durian, and they just do not talk about
taste and smell! It is customary to call this exotic fruit.
�”King of fruit”. Perhaps he really is “king”, but very
peculiar: the smell of durian is compared with the Thais … feces
hyenas. Only this comparison is unlikely to help Russian tourists.
determine its true smell: how do we know about smells
hyenas!

Due to the aggressive flavor durian should not be carried and held in
indoor spaces. After finding it, for example, in a hotel room
the smell is then extremely difficult to weather out. Moreover, in each hotel
In Thailand you can come across a sign prohibiting carrying and
storage of durian. Do not try to do it – local people know well
the taste and smell of fetid fruit, and you can pay a considerable amount
fine.

In size, durian resembles a medium melon. Only peel
unlike melons, it is covered with sharp thorns. Since she
very dense and prickly, it is not recommended for tourists to buy
unrefined fruit – cutting will take a lot of time and effort.

The edible part of it is the flesh of light yellow.
colors. The people of Thailand, however, like other Asian countries, consider
durian tasty and very useful fruit. You can even meet such
fruit description: taste of paradise, but the smell of hell. And the male population considers
its excellent afrozodiakom.

Mangosteen

Slices in appearance look like garlic, and the taste can not be
unambiguous description. Some may say that they are guessing here.
peach and grapes, someone – like apricot, cantaloupe, rose and lime.

How to choose a good mangosteen? Take the fruit in your hand and a little
squeeze. Its peel should not be as dense as wood. If
the fruit is easily minimized, it speaks of its depravity. Not worth it
take small fruits – they have less tasty flesh. When cutting
care should be taken with the peel – it can stain your
light things. For the same reason, in some hotels it is forbidden to carry
mangosteen in the rooms.

This fruit can be consumed raw, it goes well
with seafood and cools the body, which is especially valuable in the heat.
Often it is eaten after durian, which, on the contrary,
warms up.

Mangosteen очень популярен как у местных жителей, так и у гостей
country. It tolerates transportation well and therefore in large
quantities supplied for export. This, and also that for
growing mangosteen requires patience (the tree starts
to bear fruit only a few years) led to the fact that the fruit –
one of the most expensive in the markets of Thailand.

Dragon fruit

This fruit is one of the types of cacti that
grew in Central America. In the nineteenth century they were
delivered to the territory of present-day Vietnam and spread from there
all over Southeast Asia.

Dragon fruit имеет крупные чешуйки и продолговатую форму. Pulp
juicy, white, interspersed with black seeds. Tourists figuratively
call this fruit “radish with poppy seeds”. Obviously, this is only
visual image.

Mango

The mango fruit contains a large amount of beta-carotene,
which is an antioxidant for the body. One of
its positive effects on the human body – protection
the skin from aggressive environmental factors, for example, from
ultraviolet radiation

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