How to Eat "Crazy Food Stuffs": A Short Tutorial in Mangosteen and Longan Consumption
EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE GOT HUNGRY FOR SOME SAAAHWEEEET THANGS,
so we brought out some MANGOSTEENS AND LONGANS!
The MANGOSTEEN and LONGAN!!!
(Note: Longans are also known as "dragon's eyes", which is a direct translation of the proper mandarin pronunciation of the fruit..."LONG-YAN"...LONG meaning DRAGON and YAN meaning EYE). Also, excuse my shit Chinese writing...I haven't written any Chinese in around a year...HAHA!
TUTORIAL PART I: HOW TO EAT A MANGOSTEEN
Mangosteens are by far my favourite of tropical fruits. I like them because they are weirdly prehistoric-looking and they taste suuuuuuper good. They are always super fragrant and sweet! I find that opening a mangosteen is a bit of a art...it is most definitely an art that I have mastered...unlike my sister, who fumbles around with them and ends up having sticky purple water and flecks of mangosteen casing all over her hands.
#1 Pick up desired mangosteen and ensure that it is
kept well away from greedy siblings' mouths.
Take note of the weird green leaf formation on top of the fruit itself.
Also note that the outside of the fruit may be slightly sticky with sap.
#2 Pry off weird green leaf formation, so that you are left with just
the purple/maroon globular part of the mangosteen fruit.
#3 Using both hands, squeeze the whole fruit until the soft outer "shell"
of the fruit rips and tears. Rip the damn thing open to reveal little
segmented (kind of like oranges) pieces of edible white fleshy bits.
#4 Using your fingers, carefully pluck out the slimey segments of white flesh
(note the segment I'm holding in between my fingers).
Pop that sucker in your mouth...it should be SUPER SWEET and SUPER SOFT!
(Also make note that SOME segments sometimes contain a large seed in the middle, so be careful!)
#5 Pluck all the bits of white flesh out and EAT 'EM ALL!
Eat until the casing is empty...then discard that useless inedible shell awaaaay...and pick up another mangosteen and start all over again! :D
TUTORIAL PART II: HOW TO EAT A LONGAN
Eating longans is a whole lot easier than eating mangosteens. They aren't as yummy and are probably more common (just about as common as lychees)...but they are addictive and once you start, you usually end up eating HEAPS until you're satisfied.
A box of icy cold longans!
(They are best when you keep them in the fridge for a while.)
#1 Pick up a single longan and either dig your nails OR
bite OR squeeze it lightly so that the soft shell rips.
Once a rip is present...just rip the whole shell off.
This will reveal a semi-transparent edible flesh, with a barely visible black seed in the middle. Sort of looks like a super icky eyeball, doesn't it? :S
#2 Pop the whole semi-transparent fleshy bit
in your mouth and CHEW CHEW CHEW around!
Be careful of the super hard black seed inside!
Throw away the seed and the shell and start ALL OVER AGAIN! :D
OKAY. So that is the end of today's
How To Eat "Crazy Food Stuffs" tutorial!
I have decided to turn this blog into a bit of a food blog,
considering Singapore is such a food capital
(with Chinese, Malay, Indian, Thai, Western...and uniquely
Singaporean fare which is a fusion of many of the afore mentioned cuisines)!
So yes, everytime I eat something interesting,
I will take photos and attempt
to talk about the dish's ingredients and origins...
...IT SHOULD BE FUN! :D
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!! :)