Heavenly Fruits

Last night we had a "fruit party." At about 10pm, we gathered in the hallway and passed around fruits... not your typical apples, oranges, pears, bananas, or anything else you have probably ever imagined. We ate fruits with the name "mango" that taste nothing like mangoes, melons the size of oranges, fruits the size of lambs, and much much more. A party is perhaps the best word to describe our gathering, as amidst our curious efforts to figure out how each fruit ought to be properly eaten (i.e. --"can I bite right into it?" "is the seed inside edible?" etc), we shared lots of laughs and good times.

MANGOSTEEN. Inside this thick skin of over an inch deep, naturally dyed by a rich red, lies a juicy fruit colored with a lustrous nearly transparent white. The taste cannot be described with the likeness of any fruits I have ever before known... for a similitude of familiarity, imagine all your favorite fruits combined to form something solely unique and better than anything else.


CHINESE BERRIES. There is nothing to peel. Just bite right into the textured surface, of a red deeper and more delicious than raspberries. The taste is strong, unlike anything I can describe, but almost unanimously pleasant. The seed inside is not edible.


JACKFRUIT. This delight originates from a fruit that weighs 75 pounds and comes in sizes averaging that of a lamb. The chewy texture and sweet taste makes this experience similar to eating candy, but without the guilt.





CHINESE PLUMS. The size of perhaps a quarter of an American plum, these miniature gems contain the taste of familiarity, intensified to a point beyond familiarity, resulting in a consensus that maybe, this time, we prefer the familiar.

RED ROSE THAILAND APPLES. Shaped like prolongated hearts, these apples may contain the essence of an "apple," but the light and airy texture, rose-fragmented taste, and unique shape classify these apples as something beyond that which we know.

ASIAN MELON. Maybe we got a bad one... it tasted like a melon void of taste, injected with potato. I am fascinated by its tiny size and I want to give it another chance.

LYCHEE. Upon gently peeling the skin, manually, the juicy pulp bursts forth, apparently very high in Vitamin C, but more importantly, extremely high on the scale of deliciousness of a world that I cannot describe. White on the inside with the lustrousness of an uncultured pearl, these super-sweet fruits also contain a hint of tangy-ness, forming a perfect balance.

POMELO. The size of a small cantaloupe, the texture of a regular grapefruit, and the taste of a perfectly grown orange. After completing the challenge of peeling this giant, the process of eating felt like delighting in a well-earned prize.