Tropical Fruit Adventures on Your Oriental Holiday

The exotic land called the Philippines has become very popular as a tourist destination. When youdream of an Asian vacation you may perhaps imagine white sandy beaches, crystal clear warm water, underwater adventure watching dolphins and colourful fish swimming around coral heads.

There is so much more to an Asian vacation, though.

An Oriental  vacation is healthy. You can relax on the sand , you swim in the sea , and you take in lots of vitamins, minerals and other trace elements when you refresh yourself with a variety of tropical fruit. You can eat them cut up and peeled, or you can endulge yourself with a mixed fruit shake that brims with goodness and health. and it is excellent value for money .

We all probably know exotic fruits such as bananas, oranges, limes and watermelons. There’s also a wide range of delicious fruit that may not be as well known to you.

There’s the custard apple as an example. It almost looks like  a small green hand grenade and is filled with a sweet scented white flesh. It’s delicious consumed ripe with coconut  milk or made into ice-cream.

The guava is a greenish-yellow fruit with a pale aromatic flesh. I’ve eaten it as jelly, and it’s also a different experience when it’s hard and not yet ripe , with a spiced dip of salt, sugar and a few crushed chillies.

The jackfruit is the largest of all cultivated  fruits. The outside is rough and green, and inside sit the pieces of yellow-orange flesh which is sweet and wonderfully  scented. Usually  it’s eaten raw as a snack; and often the green parts are also used in cooking.

The longan is a smaller fruit with a durable but thin skin. The sweet and succulent flesh is white or pink and has a distinctive musky flavor.

Mangoes come in many varieties, and they are unique from those in Hawaii or South America. The Asian mangoes are oblong in shape and have either dark green or yellowy golden skin with whitish or yellow flesh. In Thailand mango is eaten with sticky rice topped with sweet coconut milk. They can also be pickled, made into preserves or juices, or even used in traditional medicine. For an unforgetteable eating experience try green mango dipped in a mix of chillies and sugar. It's similar to some of the apples we get in the West and is quite crunchy to eat.

To eat mangosteen is to experience the queen of tropical fruits. To reveal the sweet white fruit simply peel the dark purple skin. it can be eaten raw used as an ingredient in drinks or simply as part of a sea food curry recipe. This scrumptious fruit is also renowned for it's healing properties. So, the mangosteen may be one of the reasons you would want to have an Oriental Vacation.

The pomello or is one of my favourite tropical fruits. It’s the largest of the citrus fruits, weighs up to two pounds, and is sometimes referred to by the name of “ugly fruit”. Like a giant grapefruit it is sweeter and is used as a snack a desert or a salad ingredient.

There are so many other wonderful tropical fruits, like the well-known pineapple that is so much sweeter here in Asia, or the lesser known rambutan with its succulent white flesh within a bright red hairy skin, or the sapodilla, an oval-shaped fruit with sweet, succculent reddish-brown flesh in a brown skin. Many Thai curries and soups use the paste made from tamarinds as a key ingredient.

Remember to check out all of these wonderful tastes when you’re on your Asia vacation

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