Learning Bahasa Indonesia: Tropical Fruit

It has a hard, purple skin and very flavoursome flesh. The flesh is white, sweet and juicy. The refreshing, sweet taste is reminiscent of banana or peach.

• Manggis

• Mangga

• Melon

• Markisa

It has drier sweetness similar to dates.

• Anggur

• Duku

• Leci

• Kelengkeng

A strange combination of savory, sweet, and creamy all at once. It has a very strong smell.

• Buah naga

• Rambutan

• Durian

• Jeruk

A pleasant tasting acidic fruit about the size of an apple with a pineapple-mango like flavor and crunchy texture.

• Alpukat

• Kedondong

• Nanas

• Salak

A hairy fruit, but once the hairy exterior of this fruit is peeled away, the tender, fleshy, delicious fruit is revealed. Its taste is described as sweet and sour.

• Rambutan

• Leci

• Manggis

• Semangka

They can be quite sour when unripe, but are perfectly sweet when ripe with a taste similar to a bittersweet grapefruit.

• Leci

• Kelengkeng

• Anggur

• Langsat

It tastes sweet, many say it tastes like a cross between an apple, pineapple, mango and banana.

• Melon

• Mangga

• Nangka

• Jeruk

It's sweet and sometimes sour. The texture is not too soft but not too hard. :D The skin looks like snake's.

• Salak

• Semangka

• Alpukat

• Jambu

It is sweet and juicy. People say it smells like a rose.

• Srikaya

• Apel

• Jambu air

• Jambu biji

Star fruit has a sweet flavor with a slightly sour undertone and a juicy, firm flesh like a grape. The fruity taste is difficult to describe, landing somewhere between ripe pear, green grape, and orange.

• Belimbing

• Bengkoang

• Semangka

• Apel