David Chiu

I talked to my parents tonight and my mom told me about this fruit called Mangosteen. She remembers eating the fruit as a child in the Philippines and recently found out that Mangosteen has been discovered to have incredible nutritional properties. There are now some companies offering Mangosteen in beverage form as a “cure-all”. I don’t believe all the hype, but I am interested in trying it.

I also read that Durian is considered the “King” of fruits. My personal memories of Durian are from high school when relatives had brought some over when they were visiting from Hong Kong. The stuff smelled like ASS! Well, not literally, but it smelled really bad. So bad that I didn’t want to try it. SUPPOSEDLY, if you can get past the smell, the fruit itself is “the most delicious” fruit in the world.

Maybe I’ll give it a second chance…