Stop Draggin’ My Fruit Around

This weekend I went to one of my newer haunts, a NYC –style Asian supermarket. I bought my usual Mama spicy instant shrimp-flavored noodles & frozen dumplings. I also stared at the spice isle for ages (as I have before) wondering where I’d find a soup base for Vietnamese pho. Got some cilantro & green onions and then (see photo) a dragon fruit.

For any avid watcher of Andrew Zimmerman’s Bizarre Foods, we all know his aversion to durian (which I recently found out does smell like rotting gym socks & does have a sweet custardy consistency).  So, my BFF was reluctant to try dragon fruit but was not surprised when I was game.

Sooooo, dragon fruit is both a delight for the palate & eye; flashy pink on the outside and white with tiny black seeds on the inside. Yup, and it does taste like kiwi fruit.