- Rambutan
Season: May - June.
Rambutan, Rambutan (Ngo) - an exotic and very tasty fruit, the fruit of an evergreen tree is the most popular and beloved in Thailand and throughout Southeast Asia along with lychee. It is small in size, about the size of a large walnut. This fruit, with a red skin and long green and non-thorny thorns, looks more like a flower than a fruit. Its flesh is white in color and has a jelly-like consistency, juicy and sweet. Rambutan is eaten fresh and canned.
This fruit of Thailand is ranked 1st for its unusual appearance and extraordinary taste.
2. Mangosteen
Season: May - July.
Mangosteen - Mangosteen (Mangkut), another person of the royal family of fruits of Thailand - the queen of fruits, bright, beautiful with a delicate taste and pleasant aroma. This is an unusually shaped fruit of an evergreen tree with a pleasant citrus flavor with hints of peach. The dark purple peel, red and fleshy at the break, retains large slices of creamy color, in each slice of six to ten there is a bone. Mangosteen, according to scientists, is a powerful antioxidant.
3. Passion fruit
Season: January - April.
Passion fruit, (Passion Fruit) - has a soft, jelly-like pulp full of seeds. Passion fruit juice is added to many juices, yoghurts, confectionery products to enhance the taste. Passion fruit is found in two types - golden passionfruit is of the size of a grapefruit and with a purple-violet skin color (gulupa). This lemon-sized fruit is considered slightly poisonous.
4. Papaya
Season: all year round.
Papaya (Malagor) is a wonderful tropical fruit that delights the people of Thailand all year round. Bright orange flesh is juicy and has a pleasant fruity taste. As the main ingredient, unripe papaya pulp is added to som-tam. This is a popular Thai dish with raw crabs, salted fish and dried shrimp with garlic, chili and crushed papaya pulp seasoned with lime juice.
5. Jackfruit
Season: all year round.
Jackfruit (Ka-noon), the largest fruit weighing up to 50 kg, growing on a tree. Jackfruit gave its wonderful taste to Wrigley juicyfruit chewing gum. Its flesh is yellow, elastic, sweet, without sourness, with a lot of seeds. The pulp consists of individual pieces, the size of a medium bell pepper. This giant has a thick, yellow-green, spiky hide containing white, viscous, sticky milk. Jackfruit is canned and made into sweet chips. Jackfruit wood is used to make musical instruments.
6. Durian
Season: May - June.
Durian (Toorian), has royal status in the name - the king of fruits, but it is forbidden to carry to hotels and public transport. It has an amazing taste and disgusting aroma. For this aroma, it is forbidden to eat it in hotels, public places and transport. Durian is an amazing large fruit, outwardly very powerful and formidable, similar to the weapons of orcs - a spiked and prickly ball on a stick. Strong, with large sharp cones-thorns, the peel hides a light orange pulp of a creamy consistency with 2 or 4 oval seeds. The advice of the "experienced" - it is better to taste a vere small slice of durian, which will perfectly convey the taste, but not the aroma. Eating durians after refrigerating is very logical in the hot climate of Thailand, as the aroma disappears, but the taste remains. The aroma of durian is perceived differently by everyone: from the smell of gasoline and kerosene to the smell of fried onions and garlic. In any case, it does not leave anyone indifferent and memories of the fruit, its taste and aroma will remain for many years.
7. Pineapple
Season: all year round.
Pineapple (Saparot), a beautiful exotic fruit, the true taste of which can only be found in Thailand. Only here you will eat it ripe, and therefore so juicy, sweet and fragrant. “Add some salt,” the Thais advise, “and you will enrich the taste of pineapple.” Thailand is the largest exporter of pineapples in the world. Huge plantations in Phuket are Chonburi, Rayong and Prachuap Khiri Khan.
8. Noni
Season: all year round.
Noni, or cheese fruit, is Thailand's most popular and controversial fruit, fruit's juice and powder are used in cosmetic production.
Scientists doubt its usefulness, manufacturers admiringly talk about its amazing properties, the anti-doping committee has listed noni juice on the list of banned drugs. The fruit of Thailand with a beautiful name - Noni, has a more unattractive name - emetic fruit.
9. Dragonfruit
Season: all year round.
Dragon fruit, Pitaya (Gair-ow Mang Gorn) is a delightful exotic fruit that is the fruit of a certain vine-like cactus variety. An unusual feature of this plant is that it blooms several times a year, but only at night, therefore, it is pollinated by small bats and night butterflies. Extraordinary beauty from bright pink to red scales of the peel and from creamy white to lilac and red fruit pulp with small black seeds. Dragonfruit has a pleasant taste and aroma, it is very useful in dietary nutrition. You can always enjoy dragon fruit, as the fruit season in Thailand is all year round. The price of dragon fruit in Thailand is in the range of 30 - 60 baht per kg.
