Tuesday, August 18, 2009

More of Day 7 ... fruit tasting!

We stopped by a fruit stand on the way from GenSan to Marbel. The Delfin's had us taste all sorts of yummy fruits. Among them were small papaya (which was Rebecca's favorite!), sweet and juicy pineapple from the nearby Dole plantation, Jack Fruit, and Durian. We have Jeremi's experience with Durian below...
This is Jeremi and Boiser (our tour guide and ACE representative) holding jack fruit. A very slippery texture with an intersting and sweet taste...


Jeremi and Rebecca with pineapples! They are the sweetest and juiciest we've ever had!

This is Jeremi's first smell of the fruit. Even the Filipinos say it smells like hell but tastes like heaven...we'll see!

Mr. Delfin had to plug Jeremi's nose so he would try it!


Ewww! Looks like it tastes as bad as it smells!





So, maybe it is an acquired taste. They LOVE it!... and we don't!



You get rid of the smell by washing your hands in the shell of the Durian fruit. It really works!

1 comment:

Sam said...

They have the so-called jack fruit (known as Jaca) in Brasil. I didn't care for it that much. The smell was awful and I didn't like the taste either. Maybe I had a bad one or something, bu I never tried it again after that. Looks like you guys are having a blast!!