plantlover13, I do love sweet! So much so that as a kid... I would eat straight up sugar cubes and chew on stalks of sugar cane (when I could find them). I promise the next time I come across a ripe sapodilla, I will eat it without prejudice!
Maybe I'm lucky that I tried longan first. I still haven't found any lychee to taste. And as for mangosteen! My initial thought process on that fruit was... this looks nothing like a mango, so why the heck do they call it
mangosteen? But then I tasted it and it was so tangy and sweet, with a flavor that was powerfully strong. It just hooked me. And yeah, I don't know that there is any other flavor out there that you can really compare that to.
bangkok, I wonder if crunching on a miracle berry before eating a rose apple would help improve flavor at all. I haven't tried longkong or tamarind yet either. Actually, the list of fruits that I
have tried is much shorter than those I have
not.
I also will never forget my first shower in a bathroom like that. It was on koh phi phi island and there lived a huge crab behind the waterbucket. That crab liked to come out of his home at nite and one morning i met him in that bathroom, i have never woken up so fast as then.
Oh boy!
I probably would have woken up really quick, too! The only critters I had in my bathroom were a couple of frogs that liked to sleep in the toilet paper roll. You know what I miss? Those little gecko lizards that climb all over the walls. I thought they were really fun to watch. -- I am still trying to convince everyone in my house here that we need to convert all our bathrooms to Thai bathrooms.
Karen, I
have tried durian! I had wanted to try it while I was over there, but it wasn't in season when I was in Thailand. Luckily, I found a frozen one at my local Asian market last spring. I prepared myself for the strong smell, and was able to get past that to really taste the fruit. Even though I've only had frozen/thawed durian, it turns out I think I really like the flavor. Unfortunately, I was forbidden to ever bring another one into the house.
Everyone was running around holding their noses, then burning candles to try and get rid of the smell. Hehe.
I've added a few more fruits to my "must try" list now because of this thread.
nullzero, I think that describes what I went through with my first taste of sapodilla. Chalky, yucky. I'll have to remember to let them go soft and have some lime on hand when I hopefully come across some in the future.