Monday, May 17, 2010

Manggis Dubai

i don't really like manggis (mangosteen). but today i'm writing about manggis because i saw this at waitrose dubai marina, and it's aed15.50 a packet. lebih kurang rm15.50 jugak.

i think there's only 10 bijik inside. 15.50 dirham.

okay, i'm not a manggis expert, but i'm sure you can get way more manggis with rm15.50 back in malaysia, right? i read somewhere that in kelantan you can get sekilo manggis for as low as 80 cents!

sekilo dah berapa manggis kan!


the morale of the story : buy, eat and enjoy local fruits when you're in malaysia.

hihi. hey, though i dislike manggis, i do love other local fruits. my favorite fruit happens to be banana! and yes, my boys share the love, hihi. other than banana, i also like mango and rambutan!

in fact, there was a mango tree right outside my old house in ipoh, where us sisters used to climb and make 'tree house' out of newspaper and cardboard boxes!

i don't like tembikai or betik because i think they're 'messy' fruits (go figure). and i also don't like langsat and ciku coz they taste funny. haha.

yah yah picky, picky!

parts of a manggis

anyways, though i don't really fancy manggis, i'll share what i found out through the magic of googling :

  • it has no connection with mango!
  • to open up the fruit, you have to twist or press the fruit until it breaks apart
  • each manggis contains a type of “flower” at the bottom of the fruit, indicating the number of segments/slices the fruit contains
  • while durian is 'king of fruit', manggis is said to be the 'queen of fruit'
  • the manggis dark purple skin contains coloring/getah which is difficult to clean off if it stains your clothes
  • manggis has cooling effect - so you often see durian and manggis sold side by side, because durian is heaty - so you can neutralize the effect of heatiness by eating the cool manggis



i found packets of rambutan too. sedih betul tengok. it's just that it looks so NOT fresh; with lebam-lebam and blackish.

also, because back in mr. khairul's kampung, there's a whole orchard of rambutan! there would be a LOT, and i mean a LOT of rambutan everywhere you look - up in the tree, or down on the grass, even up the steps leading to the house! click here for the entry i wrote about the glorious red rambutan invasion!

there's so many that mr. khairul's mom would make jars of rambutan jam. really!

so, when i see a small bunch of rambutan sold in packets like this, i feel really blessed that i could just go balik kampung soon, and eat rambutan as much as i want to, whenever i want to. just a petik away!

8 comments:

~ f i d ~ said...

Hi Syigim, dah lama asyik baca saja he3..I love manggis, my grandparents ada kebun manggis, durian, langsat etc..tapi tu lah masalahnya, selalu time balik malaysia kadang2 x ada musim..tu yg tension tu... dah lama x makan manggis, sedapnya!

FiDa@aMiDa said...

manis tak manggis tu syigim?
teringat kenangan buah manggis masa pregnant fatin amily kat korea...punyelah mengidam nak sangat sekali terjumpa kat supermarket...sepeket tu hege 20,000won=lebih kurang RM80 bolehlah pengubat rindu walaupon manggis frozen keras nak mampus nak buka dah tu tak semua manis huhuhuhu

Syigim said...

>> hi fid! welcome & thanks for finally kasi komen! hihi.

bestnye atuk nenek ade kebun durian!!! i LOVE duriannn yumyum! ur so lucky...suh diorang poskan je la time musim tu hihi.

>> fida, xbeli pun. amik gamba je hihi. xtau la rase dia ok ke tak. amboiiii rm80! mengidam punya psl ye hihi. abis si fatin amily tu confirm minat abis manggis ye hihi.

ICA said...

Syigim, reading the comments from mereka-mereka yang di perantauan ni, mmg syahdu sangat sebab to enjoy local Msian fruits pun costly kan harganya...I remember last time kat US, durian dia siap frozen lagi & rambutan etc semua mahal2 belaka.

Takpe, as a friend, what I can do is when it's in season nanti, i makan banyak2 and ingatkan u, ok...hehehe.

ps: U suka durian, can geng with Auni & her daddy. I oooooohhhh alergic daaa. rugikan alergic to durian...

Syigim said...

ica, har har har. ok i gelak dulu. :P

sini pun dpt frozen durian je! nasib baik sedap jgk rase dia. i bought once je mase pregnant kazim :)

n YESSSS! i LOVE durian! sgt sgt! khairul pun! i LOVE pengat durian, esp yg mak i buat dulu. sedapnya cicah dgn roti. :9 slurrrp! ur missing a LOT, girl!

Nadiah Sidek said...

sedapnya manggis! lama tak mkn. kite pun suka mango jgk! tapi dgn syarat, yg manis2 je la..yg masam tak suka :D

Yuslinda said...

syigim,
tapi rm skg dah strong tau,dah tak sama dah,dirham dah turun banyak...waaaaaaaaaaa..semalam baru kak linda tukar duit,rasa nak pitam je.anyway,takpekan balik Malaysia nanti kita makan banyak2 buah-buahan tempatan kan :)
p/s:apa kabar baby kazim?uploadlah pic baru dia ,rindulah..

arin said...

bila nak blk kampung nih?roger me tau!

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