If you go to Laos, you must not miss the variety of local delicious fruits. Because there are many varieties here, if you like to eat tropical fruits, rambutan, yellow peel, durian, shakya... Almost all of them; If you don't like to eat tropical fruits, the mainstream domestic apples, pears, bananas are available.
Because of the influence of Chinese culture, you don't have to worry about the fruit here.
Local fruit market in Laos
However, to go to Laos, of course, you have to try it, which is not common in China, but it is a local fruit.
Or, a few fruits with high domestic prices and approachable local prices.
■The "star apple" with stars in the center of the fruit
This fruit, which is called Venus Fruit in China and Milk Fruit in Hong Kong, has little to do with apples in terms of appearance or pulp. It is called milk fruit in Hong Kong because of its milky white juice in its flesh.
The shape of the Star Apple
Star apples are not edible in the outer skin like apples. Its outer skin also has latex, only to remove the peel, or cut open to eat the white part of the inside.
After the cut star apple removes the seed, it has a radial groove, like a star, which is why the star apple got its name.
What it looks like after cutting
The flesh of the star apple is fine in texture, very sweet to eat, and has a strong tropical style.
Ripe fruit appears green and purple in appearance, and there are a few yellow varieties, but they are very rare.
■In the center there are cotton fruits with cotton
Cotton nuts are not cotton fruits that we eat with our clothes. It got its name because the central part of the fruit grows seeds like cotton wool.
The look of the cotton nuts opening
The fruit of the cotton fruit is the size of an apple, round or flattened; The epidermis has some shallow wrinkles and is also covered with soft fruit hairs; The middle pulp is milky white and secretes milky white juice; The flesh is very sweet to eat, but the part near the seed has a hint of sourness.
Ripe cotton fruit
Like many fruits, cotton nuts can not only be eaten raw, but also can be made of dried fruits, jams, jelly and other products.
■Cute Q version of the small star carambola gooseberry
It's a very cute fruit, and if you don't tell you it's fruit, I think you'll mistake it for candy.
Cute-looking starcurring
The small and cute star gooseberry has a star-like appearance, and like the star peach, it will turn into a faint gold when ripe, plus a smaller version of the carambola that looks similar and comes alive.
Starcurrant doesn't taste like the look, it's so flattering. Because most star currants have a strong sour taste, of course, acid lovers should not miss its crisp and sour taste.
Q Cute Q Cute shape
Starcurrants are generally eaten as dried fruits, or pickled to make preserves and jams.
■ Yellow skin that looks like a potato
If you go to Laos and have a friend serve you this kind of hospitality, don't think it's a potato.
Yellow peel should have been eaten by many people
Because it has almost the same color as potatoes, and there are some spots on the skin, it looks like a potato.
The yellow peel is eaten more like eating lychee and cinnamon balls, gently tearing the outer skin apart, and the milky white and crystal clear flesh inside is presented. However, the yellow peel fruit is divided into one petal, generally 3-4 petals, and each petal has a large seed.
The texture of the yellow peel is also very similar to the guiyuan, the meat quality Q bomb, but the sweetness is much lighter than the guiyuan.
■Soursop with thorns
This Laotian fruit called cherimoya, although the name bears "lychee", the fruit is more like a sakya fruit with thorns.
Thorny Shakya fruit
Ripe cherimoya is still green, its outer skin is covered with thorns, the thorns are relatively hard when the fruit is not ripe, but when it is ripe, the thorns become soft, and you can directly pick it by hand, which is also an important sign to judge whether it is ripe.
When you cut the fruit, you will find that the inside of the cherimoya is almost exactly the same as that of the sakya fruit, the milky white flesh is mixed with some hard and black seeds, and the taste is almost the same as the sakya fruit - soft and sweet.
What it looks like after it's cut
Its sugar content is so high that Malaysia gave it the name "durian". Because of the high sugar content, it can be used to extract sugar directly, and of course, it can also be used as a natural additive for ice cream, jam and so on.
■Durian less than half the price of the country
Although the most famous source of durian is Malaysia, and the largest producing country is Thailand, this does not affect the popularity of durian in Laos.
Of course, compared to Malaysia and Thailand, there are not so many varieties of durian in Laos, and golden pillows are the main varieties.
Durian pulp in Laos market
However, there are two reasons why laorians have to be introduced.
First, most of the durians sold in the market are naturally ripe, in other words, you can eat the "naturally cooked" taste of black-spined durian and Musang King, which are top-level durians;
Second, the peeled durian flesh is less than 20 yuan a catty. Even if the cheapest in The country is cheap, the whole one is sold for more than 20 yuan a pound, and buying the whole durian is like opening a blind box, which can open half the weight of the pulp, which is good.
So, Laos pure pulp durian, less than 20 yuan a pound, has it made you move?
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If the above several fruits with very Lao characteristics are not enough to make you salivate, then lotus mist, mangosteen, these domestic, the price of up to tens of yuan a pound of fruit, you must try, because their price is really cheap to surprise.
Fruit stalls on the streets of Laos
Of course, if you are a conservative, Laos also has watermelon, pineapple, longan, lychee, pear, mango, banana, jackfruit, rambutan, small coconut, orange, sweet tamarind, papaya, sugar cane, grapefruit, heart fruit, guava, melon, mangosteen and so on, which are the mainstream fruits for you to choose.
In short, if you go to Laos, unless you don't like fruit at all, then this must be a fruit paradise.
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