Thailand is known as the Kingdom of Fruits. It is a country rich in fruits, with a wide variety of fruits and fragrant fruits all year round. It enjoys the reputation of "Fruit Kingdom".
There are many types of fruits in Thailand, both seasonal and year-round.
Seasonal fruits include mango and lotus, which are on the market in April; durian, the "king of fruits" that matures in May; the second fruit - mangosteen; rambutan, lychee, longan, ringo, and satong are available in the rainy season.
, muzai, mapang fruit, etc., followed by grapes, grapefruit, lansai, jackfruit, tangerine and loquat, plus year-round fruits such as banana, papaya, watermelon, pineapple and coconut.
Thailand has a fruity aroma all year round. At the same time, there are imported big apples, persimmons, cherries, kiwis, pear, etc. on the Thai market. In Thailand, you can eat fruits growing in tropical, temperate and cold zones all year round.
In order to promote fruit production, various local governments will hold fruit evaluation and technology exchange activities during various fruit ripening seasons.
and organize various events.
During the durian ripening season, "Durian Competition" and "Durian Exhibition" are held in Nonthaburi or Rayong, the "hometown of durians".
Every August, the "Longan Festival" is held in Lamphun Province in northern Thailand to celebrate the longan harvest. Every August, Surat Thani Province in the south holds a rambutan event, and the list goes on.
Mango - the beloved mango of Thai people is a fruit introduced to Thailand from India, with an annual output of nearly 400 million kilograms. After the mango settled in Thailand, dozens of varieties have been bred. The fruit is huge, juicy and delicious, and there are many ways to eat it.
Uniqueness.
Mangoes in Thailand usually mature in April.
But there are also new, late-ripening mangoes that are fading and bearing fruit when other mango trees have harvested their fruit.
There is also a mango tree that bears fruit all year round.
The mango tree belongs to the Anacardiaceae family. It has thick trunks and spreading branches. Its leaves are broadly lanceolate, dark green in color and shiny, and it has small cone-shaped flowers.
Thai mangoes are as small as plums, and the largest ones can reach one kilogram. They are round, oval, heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, and their bodies are slender or plump. Their skin colors range from green, light yellow and deep red, and their flesh varies from
Available in yellow to orange-yellow.
The taste ranges from sweet, sour, and both sweet and sour.
The main varieties are rhinoceros mango, perfume mango, flat sand mango, sulfide mango, red cheek mango, wing sand mango, Zhendelan mango, ailun mango, malt mango, Nanluomai mango, gelage mango, and Sanmilu
, flower dew and white flower mango, etc. more than 20 kinds.
Among these mangoes, some are suitable for eating raw, some must be eaten ripe, and some are palatable only half-raw and half-ripe.
Thai people eat mangoes in many ways. The usual way to eat them is to wash and freeze the ripe, green and yellow mangoes as an after-dinner fruit.
Some people like to add condiments to mango and eat it as a dish.
Another way to eat "Glutinous Rice Mango" is to put golden-colored, plump ripe mangoes with fragrant glutinous rice, and then drizzle with thick coconut milk juice. The fragrance is overflowing and will whet your appetite.
It tastes sweet and greasy, fragrant and delicious, and the cooking method of glutinous rice is very particular when cooking, and must be mixed with coconut milk. When mangoes are on the market, some vendors who are skilled in making glutinous rice are often crowded, and the supply exceeds demand, becoming a Thai specialty.
A unique delicacy.
Another unique way to eat it is to dip green-skinned raw mango slices in "Nang Bawang" (a sweet and spicy sauce made with fish sauce, sugar, raw chili and coriander), which tastes spicy.
Sweet, crispy and refreshing.
Mangoes can also be used to make snack cakes, ice cream, jams, jelly, pickles, candies, custards and chutneys.
Mango is one of the favorite fruits of Thai people.
Durian: The mango flowers have faded, and it’s the season of durian fragrance again.
Durian is the most famous in Thailand and is known as the "King of Fruits".
It has a strong smell, and those who love it praise its fragrance, while those who hate it complain about its smell. Therefore, it is not allowed to be brought into hotels, trains, airplanes and public places.
Thais particularly love durian and are often attracted by its unique fragrance. There are popular proverbs in Thailand such as "Old sarong, buy durian, durian is red, suitcase is empty" and "Become a wife, eat durian", which shows that Thai people love durian.
level of connection.
Chinese writer Yu Dafu wrote in "Travel to Nanyang" that "durian has a stench like a mixture of stinky cheese and onions, and a scent similar to turpentine. It is really smelly, fragrant and delicious." But people who have never eaten durian have never tasted durian.
As long as you boldly try it for the first time, the sweet and refreshing taste will make you want to eat more and more.
Many tourists will have endless aftertaste after tasting the delicious durian, and even become addicted. Therefore, Thai durian is now sold to all over the world every year, especially to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Europe and the United States, and now also to China.
Durians are oval and spherical, generally weighing about two kilograms. The outside is a woody hard shell, and the inside is divided into cells. Each cell contains three or four seeds as big as egg yolks. There are ten to fifteen seeds in the stem. The seeds are wrapped in a
The first layer of ointment is the pulp, which is milky yellow.
The taste is sweet and fragrant.
The rare varieties of durian are worth three to four hundred baht each, and ordinary varieties cost about one hundred baht.
The advantages and disadvantages of durians can be known from the epidermis. Those with thick and sparse cone-shaped spines are generally well developed, with many fruit kernels and thick and fine flesh; if the spines are thin and dense, the fruit has thin kernels and thick flesh.
Durian has high nutritional value. In addition to high sugar content, it also contains protein, fat, vitamin C, calcium, iron and phosphorus.
Durian is a hot fruit, so you should not drink alcohol within nine hours after eating durian.
Durian is a treasure all over the body. The core can be boiled or roasted and eaten. It tastes like a half-cooked sweet potato. The water in which durian is boiled can treat sores and itchiness of sensitive skin.
Durian shells and other chemicals can be used to synthesize soap and are also used as medicine for skin diseases.
Durian is a plant in the family Asteraceae and is the tallest fruit tree in the tropics, with a trunk of 25 to 40 meters high.
One tree can produce eighty durians every year.