Saturday, March 28, 2009

What, in the world .... is this ??


(Hint ... this is a local fruit)


Do you know what this is ? ....
Ha ha .. the name of this fruit is call 'buah na nam'

It has a mixture tinge of sourish, sweet & bitter taste with flesh texture like guava ...
My family had a good time guessing ... Regina said, she thought it is a potato, that is about to rot!
Yup .. only I, the Balik Pulau girl knows .. what this is ... kekekeke
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Me, ... coming from Balik Pulau, a quiet & small town, situated in the south-west of Penang, (where almost everyone knows each other), is also where local fruits like durians, rambutans, mangosteens, quinin, chempedak, nangka, etc, etc, ... are in abundance, there are also others, that some find unheard of ... like soursop, custard apple (buah nona), kedong-dong, 'yu-kam' - (a small marble like fruit that is bitter, like fresh olive, with a seed in the center. If you drink water after chewing this fruit, it gives a pleasant taste) and bar-se-tui (??) - no translation, pale yellow orche colour, size: slightly bigger than a tennis ball - the way to eat it : Peel the skin, score the flesh & dip in soya sauce, sugar and shredded chilly. As you nibble off the outer layer, in the center, there is a juicy core with seeds. Yummy .. a very unique & refreshing taste.

1 comment:

  1. Hello Joanne

    I am also from BP. Probably only people from there will understand. Ya your knowledge of fruits and myself is compatible because we have seen and touched them. These kampong fruits are fast disappearing from the wet markets too. Maybe the sour sop will be in popular demand again because its goodness for health.

    I have decided to activate my family's idle land into a fruit plantation. My brothers are now working on it and hope to flood the supermarkets with kampong fruits soon.

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