Snake fruit

I am having writer's block I think. Or maybe it's called cooking block or something because whatever recipe I tried to make turns out rather disastrous. Since I have neglected the blog for a few days, mainly because I couldn't make anything worth reporting :P. So Have decided to show you a rather unusual but quite interesting fruit. It is known as the snake fruit, or salak in Malaysia. I think the name is due to its snake-like skin.

I have seen two types of these, a dark brown variety, which is plump and full and a lighter brown variety, which is more elongated. I have tasted the plumper one, and it got slightly sweet with a bit of a sour taste to it do you call it a tangy taste. It wasn't until recently I found out that when buying you have to choose the bigger fuller ones which makes it easier to peel to expose a sweeter white flesh, which are usually 3 segments with a big seed inside.


I eat it as it is and it is quite addictive to me but after eating a couple of them you get a dry taste in the mouth. They also have a very prickly skin, the ones I buy are fresh at the farmer's markets here so they sometimes sell with the spiney thorns so best to rub a rough clean towel to remove it. Unfortunately couldn't find much information about it, maybe this might help here.