Yummy fruit!

We have so many options for delicious fruit.  There are lots of varieties of bananas. The green mangoes taste kind of like apples and are eaten with salt and hot pepper spice. The white one with the purple rind is called mangosteen. It's what xango juice is made from. It has a flavor impossible to describe, but, oh, so delicious! The pineapples are less than a dollar each and very sweet. The oranges are more like tangerines. We put fresh slices in jell-o. The golden mangoes are large, sweet, juicy and cheap (about 40 cents each). We didn't have a somo to put in this picture. They are kind of like a pummello but much sweeter. We eat lots of fruit every day. Love it!

 

This is one of our favorite markets to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a wholesale farmers market open 24/7. Farmers bring their produce directly here so it is the freshest possible. Vendors in other markets come here to buy their produce. We have decided to go to the source. We even found delicious apples at this vendor--they are usually expensive and mushy, but these were crisp and delicious.

The market is huge! It has every kind of fruit and vegetable. Most vendors are very specialized. There are watermelon vendors, cabbage vendors, tomato and potato vendors, hot pepper vendors, etc. Usually they sell only one or two things at each place. It's fun to wander and see what we can find.

Here I am with a tuk tuk full of stuff purchased at Muang Thong (Gold City) Market. Oranges, mangoes, pineapple, tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, onions, etc. Ray eats a lot better than the young missionaries.