Lychee and longan.. Two of my fav fruits !

I guess it's the season for these.. Every other fruit merchant in Chinatown were selling them.. Bought a pound of each.. Delicious !!

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Green Papaya Salad from Freshly plucked papaya in my yard..

Joys of living in a tropical island is you usually have good tropical fruits all year round. Most people in Mauritius have some kind of fruit trees in their yard. In my yard, we have a papaya tree, a banana tree, mango tree, a passion fruit vines, a plum tree that does not grow any fruit and strawberry shrubs.

Today, I cooked thai food for my mom and sister. I found some green curry paste in a supermarket in Mauritius and decided to make a vegetarian curry with potatoes, pumpkin and Broccoli.

To go with that, I thought I'll make a Papaya Salad to go with the thai theme. There's tons of green papaya on the tree in the yard. They grow in big bunches. I plucked one to make a salad from. Nothing better than a very fresh organic papaya salad picked from your own yard :)

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Chinatown Fruits Gallore

Strolling through San Francisco Chinatown early Saturday morning, I liked the wide variety of fruits they had and just had to snap some pics. Everything looked so perfect and huge, but yet so cheap -- I wonder where they come from and how much chemicals/hormones have been used on them.

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