Star Fruit Tree

Star Fruit Tree
Originally uploaded by Food Trails.

The only Star fruit tree we came across at Changi Beach Park, Singapore.

This is among the many fruit trees that my father grown in my childhood home in Selangor, Malaysia. They were so many of them then. In those days, when the young green fruits were about 5 cm long, we would wrap and tie a piece of paper around each fruit to protect them. When they had reached certain sizes, it was always a rewarding time for us to take a peep at them before plucking the ripe ones. We always had more than we could eat. Sometimes, I would slice up the matured but unripe ones and ate them with a sweet dipping sauce made with both light and dark soya sauces, sugar and some sliced red chillies. This sauce is good with unripe mangoes too :)