When I was going to school I worked in the produce dept. of a grocery store. The bottom line is that these Asian fruits are not available in large quantities, good quality at reasonable prices. About once a year for a week in the store we would get Lychee nuts but the quality and taste was poor. I had a Vietnamese girlfriend who would go around all the neighborhoods late at night with her ninja friends and steal Mangos and Lychee nuts fresh from the trees. Her freshly stolen lychees were delicious but I thought she was wierd as she only ate Mangos that weren't ripe, she liked them hard and crunchy and ate them like an apple, skin and all.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by yellafeva
Tritium, those are longans, if I'm not mistaken.

Those Lansones look like another fruit that I liked, but don't know its name.

 

Yeah, I'd love to have some of those tropical fruits here. I don't know why they don't import those while banana, also a tropical fruit, is everywhere.

I love ramputan (the red hairy on the outside), Jack fruit, durian, manglesteen, the sour/sweet fruit (not sure the name).

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tritium_pie

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by hygiene boy
When I was going to school I worked in the produce dept. of a grocery store. The bottom line is that these Asian fruits are not available in large quantities, good quality at reasonable prices. About once a year for a week in the store we would get Lychee nuts but the quality and taste was poor. I had a Vietnamese girlfriend who would go around all the neighborhoods late at night with her ninja friends and steal Mangos and Lychee nuts fresh from the trees. Her freshly stolen lychees were delicious but I thought she was wierd as she only ate Mangos that weren't ripe, she liked them hard and crunchy and ate them like an apple,

 

That's what all the Vietnamese ninjas called them, probably for the large seed in the middle!

 

Tell your ninja friends to learn the difference between a fruit and nut. There are many other fruits with large seeds, but as a whole, they are still fruits.

 

They dress in black and steal fruit in the middle of the night. They'll get 20lbs. of fruit in 2 minutes without making a sound. I am not going to try and correct them, imagine what they could do to my nuts in the middle of the night!

 

That's funny! Fruit stealing ninjas! It's safe to say that we don't want to imagine what they'd do to your nuts.

 

Asian tropical fruits! Yummyyyyyyyyyy!