There are varieties of local fruits found in Malaysia. Some of them come in all year round and some come in seasons. Malaysian fruits are abundance when the fruits seasons come. You can easily find local fruits in Malaysia. These fruits are also sell in stalls along the roadsides and trunk roads of Malaysia, fruits stores, wet markets, shops, mini markets, hyper markets, morning markets, night markets, and so on. Fruits here are abundance, cheap and delicious.
They are found in varieties of colours and shapes. You can find the delicious mouth watering fruits with skin colours of yellow, green, red, purple, black, orange, brown, etc. Those fruits are not only round or oval in shapes, but they are also found in the shapes like long cylindrical, star, sharp thorny, soft thorny, etc. They can be juicy, sweet, sour, crispy, soft, fragrant, etc. You can try out.
A trip to Malaysia would not be a complete one if one have not tried the sweet, juicy and mouth watering local fruits. Want to try the sour fruits in Malaysia? There are plenty as well. Want to challenge with the taste of Malaysia fruits? Take durian as your opponent, you will find a strong opponent for challenging your taste bug. You may be over powered by this fruit. Durian is known as the king of fruits in Malaysia.
Discover Malaysia fruits now yourself! They are irresistible.
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Banana comes with variety of types. These fruits are non-season. They are available throughout the year. They can be eaten fresh when ripe. Just peel off the skin and eat fresh. The local people here make use of banana in many ways. Most people eat it fresh. It can be made into banana jams and banana cakes. The most popular delight, among Malaysians, is the fried banana (or "pisang goreng" in Malay). The banana is tip into special mixed flour and fried in a hot wok of oil. They are crispy. Try it out!
Red bananas are soft and have a sweet flavour when ripe. In comparison with yellow bananas, these are sweeter and less acidic. This fruit has gained popularity because of its health benefits, which make it a great dietary choice.
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| Cempedak is a non-seasonal fruit. It is available all year round. The fruit has a strong fragrant smell and taste which is almost similar to the related family, jackfruit (or "nangka" in Malay). Cut open the cempedak with a knife and you can see lots of round cempedak flesh. Most local people eat it fresh. The seeds can be cooked by boiling and add some salt into it. When the seeds are soften by boiling, the taste of the seeds is just fantastic. The cempedak can turn into a delicious and mouth watering delight by frying it. It is called fried cempedak (or "cempedak goreng" in Malay). The frying method is same as the fried banana and the taste is just irresistible and mouth watering. |
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| Ciku is produced in frequent intervals throughout the year. The shape of ciku is round or oval, approximately 5 - 10cm long. When the fruits are mature, they have a dull pale or rusty brown thin skin. When the fruit is ripe, the flesh is yellowish to pinkish brown, sweet, delicious and soft. Each fruit has 2- 3 black seeds. They are easily separated from the flesh. Cut open the ciku and scoop the flesh with a spoon. You can even peel off or stripe off the skin with a knife. |
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Coconut is available at all times throughout the year in Malaysia. It has a thick green or brownish yellow skin and shell covering the flesh and milky juice. A young coconut can quench your thirst and it tastes good. Chop off the top portion of the young coconut skin and cut open a small lid on the coconut shell. Drink the milky coconut juice with a straw and scoop up the young, soft and tender flesh with a spoon. It tastes really good. It even taste better when it is chilled. The old coconut flesh can be squeezed (of course, using machine) into coconut milk, which presents in a variety of culinary delights. Coconuts are also being made into candies and some special sauces.
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| Custard apple is produced in frequent intervals. It is one of the odd looking fruits that is available in Malaysia. It has 2 types. The yellowish green or dark purple skin custard apple. They taste the same. The skin gets soft when it is ripe. Just softly squeeze open the skin. You will find the creamy white flesh with a great taste. It is definitely sweet! Remember not to swallow the seeds together with the flesh. |
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Delima (Pomegranate) is round and approximately the size of a small orange. Squeeze open the fruit. Inside are hundreds of seeds packed in compartments that are separated by bitter inner partitions. The seeds or kernels are covered with a small amount of edible pulp. They're rich in potassium and contain a fair amount of vitamin C.
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Dokong/ Duku/ Langsat is a season fruit. It is closely related to duku and langsat fruits in the botanical family. Duku langsat is much smaller than a golf ball with a thin, leathery skin. It is more of a cream colour. Squeeze open the fruit with the thumb and index finger. Inside, the fruit contains 5 segments which are similar to the segments of a small grapefruit. The flesh is sweet and juicy, and tastes much like a very mild, sweet, grapefruit. Some segments may contain small, bitter seeds.
Duku has thicker and harder skin than langsat, the color of the fruit of duku is paler and sometimes a bit greenish, the fruit of duku has a sweet taste than langsat. Langsat skin has milky white sticky sap when squeeze open while duku has no latex.
Dokong is ahybrid of duku and langsat with very few seeds. This is more expensive than duku and langsat. Dokong has the combined properties of duku and langsat. The fruit can be elliptical, oval or round.
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Dragon fruit is one of the most exotic looking fruit. It has two types of colourful skin. The outer skin is in fuchsia and green and the other type is yellow and green. The fuchsia skin dragon fruits have two different types of flesh colours, white or red flesh and thousands of tiny black seeds in the inner part. The yellow skin dragon fruit has white flesh.
The red flesh type is sweeter than the white flesh. Cut open the fruit with a knife and scoop up the flesh with a spoon. Eat the flesh together with the tiny seeds. The taste is very special where it has the flavour of mangosteen and kiwi fruit mixed together.
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Durian is a season fruit. It is known as the "King of Fruits" in Malaysia. This fruit has an unexplainable strong smell that can be "over powering" for those who want to try it. It has a hard thorny yellowish green, greenish yellow or yellowish brown skin. Use a chopping knife to cut open the tip of the fruit, then use your two hands to pull open the thorny hard skin, but be careful not to hurt yourself. It really tests your "durian opening" skill because getting into the inside is hard. A good tasty durian has a pulp that are not watery or hard to be touched and taste slightly bitter and sweet. Some have the taste of alcohol but there are not spoiled. Come and challenge the taste of durians!!
There are plenty types of durians among them are kampung durian, D13, D24, D101, XO, Black Pearl, Red Prawn, Musang King, Black Thorn, etc. Kampung durian is the cheapest durian.
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