Fruit

Today's visit to Wan Chai market has added a few exotic tropical fruit to my experience. To illustrate it, I turned my insurance leaflet over to get the white background and got a few shots of my today's purchase:

Rambutan
Hairy little red fruit, similar to lychee, quite reminiscent of grapes in texture, quite pleasant in taste.









Custard apple
Have not yet checked out the taste, but am much looking forward to it tomorrow.

And I got VERY excited by getting a pack of PERSIMMON - sweet and not at all tart, hard and shiny, just like the ones in Georgia that I have missed so much for the past 8 years!

*** Update on Aug 24: turns out I am fairly apprehensive of new tastes: I kept postponing the custard-apple for several days. Which helped it ripen and sweeten. I was a bit unsure about the smell, when I eventually cut it up, but when I tried it, the taste was divine! Reminds me a lot of a fruit from my childhood vacations on the Black Sea coast: fejhoa, also known as guava. Guess what? They are same family, although they look totally different and compare in size as Earth to Moon! Love custard-apples.