Every year in the season of cutting coconut trees, Hainanese will drive an excavator to the coconut grove, select several coconut trees to be cut, and use the excavator to break off the trunk from the trees. Cut the hard bark and take out the white core to eat.

Coconut kernels are crispy and have a faint coconut flavor, but the number is too small. A coconut tree can only dig out a little edible stone. In addition to being eaten raw, the core of coconut trees can also be used to make soup. For example, chicken coconut, a famous Hainan dish, is made of coconut water, coconut meat and coconut core.