Our first hotel in Nha Trang gave us a complimentary plate of tropical fruit every morning. This is one of the best things to include in a room for Kenny and Lauren, especially for a hotel that doesn’t serve breakfast. The first day, we recognized the rose apples and the mango, but the round green fruit was new to us. We cut it open and the inside was a little custardy, though not very good. We donated the second one to the Buddha shrine downstairs.
Later I was reading the Lonely Planet’s section on Vietnamese tropical fruits and realized that this was a star apple (they can also be purple or red). Today on our cooking class market tour, we saw a bunch of star apples and told Lam that we didn’t like it. She told us that Vietnamese love them, and bought some more for us to try. Turns out we had again tried a bad sample as our first fruit, and this star apple was much better. it was a little creamy but not mushy like the first one. It was a little reminiscent of a sugar apple, but not nearly as sweet and much easier to eat.
When you slice open a star apple, you can see the seed pattern that inspires its name
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