Papaya, mangga, pisang, jambu – Indonesian Fruit
Indonesian Fruit
Pepaya, mangga, pisang, jambu, berasal dari pasar minggu, Disana banyak penjualnya
Dikota banyak pembelinya.
This is a children song, translated
Papaya, Mango, Banana, Jambu, from Pasar Minggu (a big market in the South of Jakarta), where there is lots of seller and in the city is where they buy these fruit.
When i found out that there is only 1 type of banana and mango here, I was shocked, specially the fact that they are European Legislated sizes. What? Seriously? Why?
I suppose I am used to having a lot of different fruit and different variety of each fruit. Although there was a time when me and my fellow countrymen (..and women) think that being able to eat Pear is the bees knees. Now, having lived with only Pear, Apple, Orange, Banana, and other fruit that can be counted using one’s fingers, I can really appreciate that Indonesia has a lot of weird and wonderful fruit. Which I am planning to research on and bore you with. Here are a few that you can find in China town with a very expensive price tag (label) on.
- Rambutan
- Durian
- Mangosteen
- Papaya – not the really small and hard ones!
- Starfruit
Others that are more difficult to come by are:
- The rest of the mango and banana types
- Different types of rambutan
- Sirsak
- Duku
- Jambu air
- Jambu biji (guava)
- Jambu monyet (cashew fruit)
- Salak
- Nangka aka Jack Fruit
- Kedondong
- Sawo
- Pala
I may have missed listing some of them, but we just have abundance of them. So much so we juice most of our fruit including Avocado. Yes that fruit that you can find only in some special salad, and cost £0.70/$90 cent. Avocado juice is widely available in Indonesia , with a bit of chocolate condensed milk, yumm. Not to say we don’t have pears and apples we do have them too. I love all these fruit.
Indonesian.. have I missed anything?
Others, have you got any fruit that you love but you can’t find in the country you are living in?
we also have : Kesemek, jamblang, sentul, leci, menteng, .. and many more..
I know, I missed loads, I discovered another durian like fruit too, I like your blog it show interesting animals and plants of Indonesia. ;p
I never guessed you could drink avacado juice, mix it with chocolate…wow. I have to try it.
Yes, I thought it would be the same in other asian countries. They are very delicious. Let me know what you think, it is a very thick drink slightly thicker than proper icecream milkshake. i’ll take a pic when I drink some.
I’ve seen some avocado chocolate mousse recipes but haven’t heard of juicing avocado.. Will try that soon. My dad used to juice bitter gourd with honey and made me drink it!! Btw, I saw nangka in Bethnal Green just this week.
Avocado Chocolate mousse?? Yumm! I am surprised you have not had them before.
Bitter gourd? that is torture, hahaha my mum only used to force me to drink carrot and apple juice so that was actually nice.
Re:Nangka, yes I saw some in China town. It is still too expensive. 😦