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Food of the Week – Dragonfruit

By jeni | August 7, 2008

Raaaaaaawwwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Dragon style. Dragonfruit style that is. Dragonfruit is also known as pitaya. And I tried it this afternoon at my German friend’s apartment. Yes, I have a German friend!

Anyway, dragonfruit looks like this. I have no clue how to tell if it’s ripe or a good one or not, but it seemed good to me. To give you an idea, this one fruit costs about $1.20 in SIN dollars. That’s about .80-.85 or so in U.S. money. 

This one here is probably about the size of a large orange. The skin is sort of similar I guess but definitely not as thick as an orange. You can just peel it right off with a knife, which is what we did, exposing the flesh: white, with little black seeds. This is only one of the varieties; they also come with red or pinkish flesh as well.  

So this is a lot of fruit yeah? I was a little nervous about committing to eating a whole half of this thing, but I went for it. 

And it was good. Good enough that I’d buy another one, but probably not good enough to eat every day. I prefer an apple a day. The texture is a bit like watermelon – sort of watery and I could see how it could get pretty mushy if it wasn’t a good piece. It’s not quite as sweet as watermelon, or maybe it’s just sweet in a different way. 

Anyway, that was my dragonfruit experience. Not that exciting I know, but luckily I don’t have to taste hot garbage every time I try a new fruit. 

 

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