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At the very end of my trip in Borneo, I took a very
terrifying, but fun, train ride all the way to the small town of Tenom.
Now, Tenom is known for being a coffee producing region and if you travel throughout
Malaysia enough, you see little bags of the stuff everywhere.
In my opinion, it tastes absolutely terrible but a lot of people seem to like it.
For me, Tenom doesn't mean coffee, it to me means
the agricultural park.
There is a park there that is known for having a lot of like really crazy and rare jungle fruit
growing.
So, I saved my trip to Tenom for the very end of my trip to Borneo,
just because I wanted to get all the more like common things out of the way.
That way when I got to Tenom, I can like focus on tracking down really rare stuff that you can't get
anywhere else.
When I did get there, it was everything I could have hoped it would be.
There was just like rows and rows of trees just like hanging with like this
just like hanging with like this rare, crazy fruit that I've only seen photos of before and I'm just like
amazed with the kind of things that I found there.
But just as I was like walking through and I picked up my first piece of fruit,
a little mosquito landed on me.
A dengue carrying mosquito.
This place was covered with these little dengue mosquitos. The kind of
mosquitos that carry (dengue). Not all of them have dengue but they're the ones that carry it.
And I was just surrounded in a cloud of them.
So, against my better judgement, I went back into the park and did review some fruit but I had to make it
really quick. And in the clips I'm going to show you, these are always with me like
a little swarm around me and me batting them off and me like rushing through the reviews.
That's why!
The first fruit that I found is from the Momordica genus.
I don't know excatly what this fruit is but this is the same genus as gac fruit.
Now, it looks very similar to gac fruit but it dosen't have bumps on it and more of like a pear shape.
So, it's probably not the same species as gac but a related one.
It might be one called the balsam apple? I don't know!
It's some relative of gac fruit but if you know what it is let me know.
I'm not supposed to take plants out of here so, I'm not going to.
But, I don't think they'll mind if I try a couple things that have fallen on the ground naturally.
So, here is a giant granadilla.
It's related to the passionfruit.
Gorgeous looking! I mean, look how cool that looks!
Nice big fruit.
Hmm.
I don't know if this is actually think this is what I think it is.
Because that does not look like any passionfruit I've ever seen.
Looks actually more like gac fruit!
Maybe it is?
It's in an area that is supposed to be edible stuff.
So, I'll try like a little bit.
I don't think that will kill me!
Yeah! This is gac fruit! Or related to it anyway because you can tell from that crazy looking seed right there.
What's different though is that this is much hardier flesh.
It's not just like goop.
And it actually has some flavour to it.
The flavour of this is...
A litttle bit bitter.
A little bit sweet.
Hopefully not poisonous!
Umm,
a little vegetable like. Like eating like a carrot.
Or something like that.
This one is far better as like a hand fruit.
I mean, not something I would be eating like a whole lot of.
But, it has more flesh to it and it's got a nicer flavour to it.
So, I need to keep going because I'm running out of battery
and getting eaten by mosquitoes that may or may not have dengue.
So, yeah.
I get asked sometimes if there is any fruit that I want to try more than any other and
there is!
It's called the kesusu.
It's this really bizarre looking thing that looks like it was grown on Mars and
I've been trying to find them everywhere but they are like super, super rare.
Well, I got a tip from Lindsay over at the blog 'Year of the Durian'
that they actually grow them at the Tenom Agricultaral Park.
So, I was really excited.
She found one there and managed to try it.
So, I was hoping that I would be able to find one so when I got there I asked
and this was what I was shown.
I came all this way to try to find my white whale, the kesusu tree.
And I found it!
Kesusu.
But, as you see, it is not fruiting.
The guy here says that it fruits in June.
And right now it is pretty far from June.
It is February.
So....that kind of sucks!
But, err, found the tree!
The next fruit is something that was listed as sour guava.
I didn't realise it at the time but it is actually not a guava.
It was an araca boi.
I didn't realise it probably becuase the mosquitoes were draining a lot of the blood that was going to my brain.
But araca boi is something that I've had before.
I tried reviewing it at the Penang Tropical Fruit Farm, like years ago,
but the friends I was with didn't know how to work a camera
so that footage of me eating it lost.
So, here it is. 3 years later or whatever its been, here is my review of the araca boi.
Ok, so this is the sour guava.
Yeah.
Seems like the ants didn't get to it too badly.
So I'll try like a little bit.
I'm not going to eat too much of it so I don't get parasites.
So here is a little bit of it.
That's really sour!
Umm,
it tastes like a sour guava.
Tastes just like guava, just a little more sour.
(It) has an odd little funk to it maybe a bit like eggfruit as well.
That's interesting!
Now, my battery is dying and I'm getting swarmed with mosquitoes
that may actually contain dengue so I'm going to keep moving!
So, hopefully I'm going to find something interesting and capture it before my battery dies or I do.
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