Good morning mango lovers.
Breakfast: Coconut Cream, Love One, Nam Doc Sia Tong, Keow Savoey
The ripened stage has caught up and passed me now. While I still have a good bit of fruit not yet ripe, there is more ripe than I can eat right now. Selections that I have not sampled will have to take priority and some more sharing and preserving (freezing) the rest will have to happen.
This morning's theme was spoiled outside, unspoiled inside.
Love One, a selection from Bendersgrove, was first up today. My other one had spoiled on the inside in a way I have never seen - it was almost white - and this one had black spots in places. On the inside it was fine. I dropped half it into the protein shake and ate the other half. It has a great aroma, straight from the first cut. The carbonated soda effect was also in play here, though not as strong as a Val Carrie. A bit of a turpentine taste but nothing offensive. An interesting mango.
CC was at least halfway spoiled on the skin all around. The top was visibly soft and compromised. Interested having still managed o peel the skin, the inside was fine. This mango was a juice factory with the process of preparing getting mango juice everywhere. On eating this one seemed muted, relative to my espectiations. It reminded me of ice cream mango, and the potential was there. Even as it, this was better than most. I have a few more so reserve comments for them.
Nia Tong was in much better shape than the prior one, although it still had some minor infernal spoilage and jelly seed. Except the form is slightly different, this is just like the more common NDM.
Keow Savoey is one of the eaten when green mangoes. I wanted to see what it was like ripe. It was still green and blackening on the outside today but was again fine on the inside. "Nothing remarkable" were the apt words Harry H used when I asked what it tastes like ripe. Eaten green, which we enjoyed at his home, it is a crunchy and sweet mango experience, similar too but not as impressive as Khun See.
Keow Savoey