wow 6 days already... time seems to fly here... today was actually not much different than any other day... quite a quiet day i had today... in the morning i decided to head back to the gym to torture myself... haha... well at least today was more productive than my last visit.. managed to complete 3km of running and 4km of cycling... not too bad actually... considering the fact that i ran 1.2km the last time and did the same 4km of cycling... well this all ended at about 1pm... dont ask me why or what i did in between because i seriously dont know... but we left the house at 4pm...
left and headed straight for ben thanh market... nothing has really changed in ben thanh... hmm... actually come to think of it... the vendors are less grabby... i realised that they dont really pull as aggressively as normal... i guess this is probably due to the sudden influx of tourist from all around finding vietnam as a substitute for indonesia and thailand... but sadly i couldnt find anything to buy... somehow unlike saigon square the goods found in ben thanh seems to have stagnated to addidas and nike sports wear... kinda prefer saigon square... woooot... abrocrombie galore.... but the ruthless slashing of prices in ben thanh still remains...
well i headed home had some dinner... after dinner, i decided to try out one of their native fruits, the milk fruit... here it is...
there are actually many theories why it is called the milk fruit one crude one is... the fruit is named milk fruit because you have to massage the fruit like a woman's breast before you can eat it... yes i know really crude... but hey thats what i was told... if you dont massage the fruit on the other hand, it wont be as sweet or as juicy... so thats one probable theory.... but after doing the usual procession of massaging the fruit followed by sliting it across, i realised that when i dug into the flesh, it was very juicy and the juice looks kinda like milk... the taste... hmmm... well i would say it has a mild taste of rambutans... there is a translucent crunchy yet slightly elastic film around the seed kinda like the persimmon and is quite sappy like the sapodilla (chee ku)... actually the picture above is quite a bad representation to the fruit especially the cross section... it is quite a beautiful looking fruit when cut cross sectioned... and yes i did injustice to it by massacaring the fruit with my novice cutting skills... it is suppose to form a nice 8 point star in the centre... but it kinda looks all meshed up in the picture...
haha well thats all i have for today... enjoy your holidays yea guys... wooooot... see ya...
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