Dabai Season.

Everyone knows now is the Durian (King of fruit) season in Sarawak but not everyone knows about Dabai (Sarawak Olive).

Botanical Name : Canarium Odontophyllum
Family Name : Burseraceae

DABAI – a native fruit of Sarawak harvested by local natives and sold it in the native market. The external colour of DABAI is black while the fresh of the fruit is yellow in colour. The seed in the centre is yellow and diamond in shape . You can only eat the seed if you can crack open the seed.

The dabai is a large tree growing up to 20m high. it is a course tree with a tall straight trunk, big stems and branches, and large compound leaves. Being dioecious, there are make and female trees.
The fruit is also called 'Sibu olive', 'black olive' or 'tropical olive'. Fruit are borne in panicles that are held upright at the end of branches. Fruit colour changed from white to black when mature. The fruit is about 3 - 4 cm long. 1.5 - 2.0 cm wide.
The fruit are often soaked in warm water for about 20 minutes to soften the flesh. The taste is nutty, smooth, slightly oily with a good flavour. the tree however takes about seven years before it bears fruits.
I like eating it with a little bit of salt to taste. Some people prefer it with soy sauce.

Jungle Fruit in Sarawak.

Asam Embang(Mangiferafoetida) is one of the indigenous fruit in Sarawak jungle.It's yellow meat taste souring sweet.

WeekEnd SnapShot-Langsat Fruits.

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This is how Langsat fruits are sale in Kuching.They are everywhere and every coner of Kuching street.Most of the Langsat in Kuching are imported langsat from Kalimantan Barat,Indonesia.
Langsat is local fruits of Sarawak .

Langsat fruits are ovoid, roundish orbs around five centimeters in diameter, usually found in clusters of two to thirty fruits. Each round fruit is covered by yellowish, thick, leathery skin. Underneath the skin, the fruit is divided into five or six slices of translucent, juicy flesh. The flesh is slightly acidic in taste, although ripe specimens are sweeter. Green, seeds are present in around half of the segments, usually taking up a small portion of the segment although some seeds take up the entire segment's volume. In contrast with the sweet-sour flavor of the fruit's flesh, the seeds are extremely bitter.The sweet juicy flesh contains sucrose, saccharose, fructose and glucose.