While browsing the Piggy Farm forum, I impulsively clicked on Bryan B. Wong's Live Journal. I find this particular entry amusing. Apparently, random butter tried buying some star fruits because of Bryan's Start Fruit manga.
Well, Wikipedia says that star fruit is native ot India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia (wow, I didn't know that!). My point is that I grew up with star fruit, so I never think of it as anything special (in the neither-good-nor-bad sense). It's quite interesting to see how other people find it :D
This is why I think I'll need to proceed with caution if I ever go to countries like Japan or China or Korea. They have way too many risky food stuff :)
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More new knowledge about Indonesian stuff from the eyes of non Indonesians: bilimbi. Is this what we Javanese call "blimbing wuluh"? Wahaha, fascinating! I call star fruit "blimbing" in my native tongue (which is a mix of Indonesian language, Javanese language, and some Chinese dialect of which proper name I never know of). "Blimbing wuluh" is entirely different. I think it's much more acidic or something and thus is more suitable for cooking (as opposed to eating as a fruit). Again, I never really pay attention to it so I don't know much about it either.
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I think this post somehow joins my otaku side and my nerd side. Childhood things tend to do that.
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