Everyone knows that durian is a rare thing, big and smelly, but the nutritional value is very high, and it is known as the "king of fruits". Just like toon, those who love are obsessed, and those who do not love avoid it. It is said that durian originated in Malaysia, and then introduced to Thailand to be cultivated in large areas and has a wide variety, due to the limited production of precious durian varieties like Musang King, only a small number of exports per year, and even restricted exports. At present, the most that everyone eats in the market is Thailand's golden pillow, which greatly meets more than 80% of the domestic demand and truly becomes the "public lover" in the eyes of foodies. However, after durian, another fruit in Thailand was "matched" by Chinese foodies, and it was planted in China but not allowed to eat.
In the impression of the gourmet jun, residents living in tropical cities such as Sanya, Hainan, like to hold a large coconut in the summer, suck and suck, as soon as they look up, they can see the coconut tree that grows tall, and they almost crouch under the tree and wait for the coconut to fall, and luckily hit the head. Coconut water not only refreshing and thirst-quenching, but also diuretic and perspiration, coconut flavor is full of flavor. But what is interesting is that last year, there was another fruit in the circle of friends, which is also abundant in Thailand, and many people who went to travel ate durian and could not avoid eating it. It is the Thai net red fruit - water coconut.
As soon as you hear the name, you know that this "coconut" does not grow on trees, but lives in water. The water coconut looks like a three-dimensional ball, looks like a meteor hammer from a distance, and looks a bit like a mutated pineapple up close, but it looks stranger than durian. It consists of more than 30 small petals, and the fruit grows above the roots and emerges from the water. Ordinary coconuts need to drill an eye to drink the coconut juice inside, while the flesh of the water coconut is directly cut and pried out piece by piece with a tool. The transparent pulp tastes a bit QQ, and it feels like eating jelly. Local people will also make the extracted pulp into a fruit snack, add some sugar and ice cubes for tourists to buy and taste, ice crisp and crisp, very popular with everyone.
Water coconut is full of treasure, in addition to the fruit can be edible, the flower bones that have not yet fully bloomed can be used to make flower wine, vinegar, sugar, etc., and its leaves are large and dense, cut down to cover the house, can also be used to weave baskets, make crafts, the local indigenous people also use the young leaves as cigarette paper.
In fact, water coconuts can also be seen in Hainan, China, but the number is already very small. Because its pulp and other parts are very economical value, so in the early years, people's indiscriminate logging and over-picking, making it difficult for the water coconut forest to survive, is now an endangered species, and is listed as a national third-level protected plant, which is explicitly prohibited from eating, so it is almost impossible to buy or see in China, and few people know of its existence.
And whether it is to Thailand, or Vietnam, water coconut and durian, can be seen everywhere, many people are still cultivating and planting the fruit, has not yet spread to the country, if you want to eat friends can go abroad to taste it, do not know when you can also be like durian, become an imported fruit, into the domestic market?