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5 fruits reminiscent of the Western

Sonneratia caseolaris, Annona glabra, Elaeocarpus … are the fruits associated with daily life and childhood of the Westerners.

5 fruits reminiscent of the Western
Sonneratia caseolaris
This is a tree species that grows naturally in clusters along the river, helping to keep soil, provide shade and shelter for aquatic species such as shrimp and catfish. The cork fruit has an acrid and sour taste, and when ripe the flesh starts to soften and has a mild aroma. Children in the West have rowing animals to pick raw horticulture, dipping salt and chili to eat. In addition, they also bring them to their mothers to cut into the chopped sauce, fish sauce or fish stock, and cook sour soup with pangasius. Pork cotton is used to make meat salad, boiled shrimps to eat, combine the sour taste of lemon and chilli mixed with it. Photo: Bao Nguyen

Annona glabra Fruit is a wild tree, the wood of the nautical family grows along ditches and ditches in the area where the acidic soil of the West is located. Fruits have thin skin, turn yellow when ripe, easily crack and have a mild aroma and sweet taste. The fruit has thin flesh, many seeds but is very popular with children in the countryside. Adults like to eat ice beams on summer days. The vase will bear fruit all year round, but when the water is floating, it will have many fruits. Photo: Huynh Nhi
Bouea gandaria Blume 
Fruit is ripe, bright yellow, small, has aroma such as mango, ripe toad, sweet and sour taste, often peeled with salt and chili, eaten directly or as a beverage, ice pickle, to make fruit jam. Westerners also use the tea bar to cook sour soup, mix salad or fish stock, but this fruit is quite expensive and only seasonal, from December to April of the calendar.
Thanh Tra was originally a wild tree in Bay Nui, An Giang, but today it has been propagated and widely grown in Vinh Long, especially in Dong Thanh commune, Binh Minh district. Photo: Huynh Nhi
Elaeocarpus
During the floating water season of August and September of the lunar calendar, the tomato plants along the western canals started to go wrong. The section of National Highway 61C from Can Tho City to Hau Giang is full of freshly picked curry stalls or jam stalls. Tomatoes have oval fruits, about the size of an adult’s thumb. They are green in color, sour and slightly acrid if they are young. When the tomatoes are ripe, the fruit turns yellow and has a mild aroma, stimulating the smell. Tomato fruit can be prepared with all kinds of dishes such as sweet tomato, sweet and sour tomato. People who do not eat sour can crush the fruit, cut the notch, squeeze the water to reduce the sourness, then mix with sugar, salt and chili to eat fresh. Photo: Huynh Nhi
Jamblon 
Having the opportunity to go to the Bay Nui region, An Giang during the summer days of April to July, the season of Tram, you will easily see the fruit trees along Provincial Highway 15, the area of ​​To Mountain Commune, Tri Ton District. Tram is a tree species with many branches, dark purple ripe fruit, shiny, sweet and slightly acrid, Western people pick ripe fruit, dotted with salt and chili to eat. Photo: leogen.168 / Instagram

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