Wednesday, April 18, 2012

In Season- Rambutan

Rambutan is one of the weirder looking tropical fruit that we have here. It's also very refreshing on these extremely hot and humid days.

This is a rambutan! In Lao it's called Mak Ngo. Mak means fruit. Ngo is the actual name. The vowel is so short. It's a very glottal sound and is still really difficult for me to pronounce!


 This is the inside of a rambutan.


 This is the part of the rambutan that you can eat. There is a white seed on the inside.


Once you're finished eating a rambutan, it seems wrong to just throw away the hilarious-looking rind. But what should you do?

Why, put them in your eyes, of course!


 Hong got the hang of it much faster than I did...


 ...but I got it eventually. Sort of.




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