Comments on: Don't try this at home

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:10:26 +0000

What a great fruit, I am eating one right now and it's one of my favourites. I tried it for the first time a few days ago when I arrived in Bali. The flavour is unusual - a bit like pineapple, passion fruit and chocolate!!! I live in Australia - that's quite near Bali, yet I have never seen it for sale at home. It's a must try fruit.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:42:31 +0000

I have eaten salak in Cambodia (where it is called lakham) and the flesh did not look like that in your photo. The flesh is a beautiful pale salmon color. First time I tasted it, I thought it was the most delicious fruit I had ever eaten - extremely subtle too. It was not firm, but had a bit of bite to it and a very tangy sour/sweet flavor. I was told by many Cambodians that people either love them or hate them, not because they taste odd but because of the fairly intense sourness. I can't get enough of them over there, and I also love mangosteen. My husband on the other hand, did not like the salak because he noticed an underlying fishy smell (they were not as fresh at that point either....). I hope you have had a chance to taste a perfectly ripe one and have changed your opinion on this lovely fruit!

By: Tibz

Tibz — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 05:31:31 +0000

Funny.. I live in Malaysia but I've never had Salak before, even though it's native and I've heard of it. I must say, though, that durian is very much polarizing. I like them because of the creamy texture of the fruit, but I do not like the way the smell clings to my hands for hours afterwards, no matter how many times I wash them.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:42:50 +0000

That may be a different type of snake fruit or something. I had the fruit in Bali and it tasted like a Rome apple. It had a seed in the middle and the flesh was white, not that rotten gray color in your photo. Please look up snake fruit on Ebay. It has a photo of what I ate...you may have an inedible version...BTW- if you think what you had was awful, the durian fruit is ten times worse...It looks like a football with spikes. Even with a mangosteen chaser(good tasking fruit) it was still stuck in my tastebuds for 1/2 a day.. :P