Tropical Fruits
I took this photo when I was in Lombok, Indonesia.
Pre digital days and my tiny Canon Ixus was stolen on that holiday.
I have posted some photos on my photo blog…click here, basically non related to food, some of my travels and some of my day to day walk.
Long before I blog I always have carried a camera with me.
My biggest problem actually is storage for my negatives and photo files.
I will be posting a daily photo mostly of Athens at this moment.
Now lets name those fruits….
Lovely pic – I’m energized early in the morning just by looking at it. Mmmm, vitamins…
macopa! miss that succulent fruit!
.. and I’m sitll using my IXUS too which reminds me of walking downtown and take pictures too.
I miss tambis & lansones!!shuskow,I do not know their english term,lol
tambis.. when we were in Thailand, they had them everywhere but they were so expensive. I was not going to pay an arm and a leg for fruits that I used to be able to buy very cheaply in Cebu, was I? So Greek husband still does not know what tambis tastes like.
Hi Sha,
what else do you’ve got there? Do you have mangosteen somewhere??? Tropical fruits -sigh I missed it a lot!
Thanks for sharing those pictures…
Tin
i miss mango of course and also manzanitas ? lol ! and also soursop
I see a pineapple! Am I the first one to comment on that one!? A pineapple!! … and a mango…? I wish there were more affordable tropical fruits in Japan.
I could see papaya
Papaya, pineapple, mangosteen, macopa, lanzones, avocado, mango and melon?
My parents have a big yard and my mom is into fruits. They have starapple [kaimito], macopa [tambis], chicos, citrus [dalanghita], carambola stars [balimbin], guavas, sweetsop [atis], mango, and I think many more.
The mango died after a strong typhoon hit Cebu, but the tree gave us lovely mangoes for a few years. We would always have fresh fruits at home, that I can remember pretty well… and often times in the past we would give them away to passersby who would stop to admire the fruits, rather than have them rotting in our premises.
Mom was very keen on planting these fruits early on after the house was built and we moved in. I was very young at that time and all I can remember was our “boy” [male helper] planting different types of fruit seeds everywhere as instructed by my mother. Now, my parents are benefiting from the labor of 25 years ago. They now have to give most of the fruits away as the 2 of them can’t eat all of them!
In fact the Dutchman have tasted tambis, guava, macopa, balimbin, atis and kaimito… all courtesy of my mother force feeding him.
Sha,
Niente guayabas, santol and atis? Ha ha ha, mitubod ang akong laway, slurp. Unsa gani toy ngan sa prutas nga kung mamunga walay dahon, gagmay unya ang liso kahuyon?
Papaya, pineapple, macopa, mangosteen…but have you tasted these, Sha? When I was in Bangkok we ate mangoes, chicos, papayas,and whatelse, and they all tasted weird, not like how fruits in the Philippines taste.
KAI THESE FRUITS were so cheap (in term of our Euro to the local money) Since this market was out of the tourist area, the prices are really aimed for the locals.
CHEAP yes.. of course I went crazy eating all THOSE FRUITS.
Here in Athens you can buy pineapple and papaya, expensive, some Filipino mangoes for 8euro a kilo.
But in Indonesia I found myself in paradise. The hotel noticed though that every morning at breakast I was the one emptying the fruit baskets haha so few days they would bring assorted of fruits to my room.
great pic!
This picture reminds me of the vendors in Manila selling pineapple along the road. 🙂
The colours are so vivid and beautiful. Shame the camera got stolen! You certainly have an eye for beauty.
papaya (betik), pineapple (nenas), cucumber (timun), air jambu, machang and what are those small white balls? They are cut into pieces and mixed with a kind of shrimp paste and some chili for consumption. This is delicious! In Malaysia we call this rojak.
tambis sa cebuano
Thanks mae
that was a small ixus darn i have another one though
i have so many photos from that holidays and mostly food opps
ah DP i love that line “dutchman have tasted ….”
good for your mama!!!
Its true you know if you plant your own tree, we only had kaimito and my grandmother literally owned the tree so she forbade us to pick on the fruits because she sold them…
and my uncle had tambis tree and was told not to climb because of the white lady. so when he was not looking there I was up there.
the only fruit tree I planted is siko carabao GUYABANO and the fruits are so sweet.
NO MELON IN THAT PHOTO its a kind of cucumber Bayi named it all…