The other day, I was reminiscing about the wonderful fruit in Taiwan, a tropical island where fruit is amazing. I remembered that I haven’t eaten Pitaya, or dragon fruit, since my last stay in Taiwan 7 or 8 years ago. My sweet cousin, Olivia, took this opportunity to bring some to me.
The texture of this fruit is a cross between kiwi and watermelon. The flavor is a little like kiwi but more mild, less tart. These exotic fruits are never as good when imported so the best is to try it where they’re from but it is super cool looking right?
After eating up the flesh, I saved them to use as funky serving bowls tonight.
Mmm. I love dragonfruit! This reminds me of a really great dragonfruit sorbet I had a few years ago, which had a hint of lime juice mixed in. It was insanely good, but as you said, not too sweet. Sadly it is completely unavailable where I live now. 🙁
Wow–I’ve never heard of dragon fruit. Looks yummy and exotic!
Megan, I imagine dragon fruit would be perfect for sorbet.
Asianmommy, you should definitely try it when you visit Taiwan….they’re not that great in the states.
I had a dragonfruit smoothie when I was in Thailand made from blended fresh dragonfruit. It was really refreshing in the heat! In Seattle I tried some dragonfruit drink but it wasn’t so tasty.
Ooh smoothie sounds good too Caroline.