Mangosteen

My first taste of mangosteen was not my choice. We were walking along a street in Shanghai and passed a vendor with two big baskets of these little plum-sized fruits. He had opened one and was offering passers-by tiny sections on a toothpick. We stopped and asked what they were, and he stuck a piece in my mouth! Unasked! Cheeky! If it had been durian I would have spit it out and slapped him, but lucky for him it was delicious--sweet and slimy like a banana, but in tiny sections like citrus fruit.

We bought some, and because we wouldn’t be back home for awhile, ate them walking. Juice got all over our hands and sometimes I got a bite of woody peel by accident. Still delicious.

Have you tried mangosteen?

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