Rambutan Season
Rambutan by aftab.
It’s rambutan season, if you hadn’t noticed the verdant, testicular piles alongside every road in Colombo. I recently ate like 15 in one sitting and they’re good, but I find the whole opening thing somewhat tedious. It’s like, you want one but you don’t want to open one, and at some point the desire and revulsion curves meet and you stop eating. If someone was peeling rambutan for me I guess I’d eat a lot more.
When I last bought it was 5 fruits for 20 Rupees, so 20 for a hundred. According to Wanni those prices are going down to 30 for a hundred, due to abundant demand. He’s got some interesting observations, including the story of a rambutan seller.
I met this guy Sujith Priyashantha (23) at Pelawatta, Battaramulla today. He is married and no children yet. He lives at his parents’ house in Horana. He buys his rambutans from Ingiriya, not from Malwana as all the other sellers say. He does his business with the help of a three wheeler owner during the season. They buy a fruit for 2.50 LKR from the gardens and sell at 4 LKR with a profit margin of 1.50 LKR from a fruit. Sujith makes around 700-800 a day during the rambutan season. During the off-season he drives a three wheeler and does some odd jobs. (Rambutan Season)
If you’re wondering what to do with all the rambutan, Ankie has an interesting recipe for a rambutan and lime cocktail. There you go, two links in one day.
Posted on Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 in Colombo, food, Sri Lanka.
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Sigh, I miss rambutan – I am never in Lanka when they are in season. There was this one glorious summer over here where they sold them at the local supermarket, it was all packaged up nice in packs of 4… and it was £1 per pack (probably cos it was ‘exotic fruit’). They were small and hideous and tasted just good enough for me to miss them more.
“testicular piles ” lol!!! due you just introduced the most disgusting term for such a delicious fruit!!
Yesterday a friend told me that opening a rambutan by mouth is bad for your health as fungus, etc. in the peel goes to your mouth. You are expected to open a rambutan by hand which is difficult. Knife won’t be a good option either as you don’t find one on the road. I eat rambutans while traveling. I ate 30 in a raw while going to Anuradhapura from Colombo.
More than fungi, the skin and seeds are mildly poisonous.
I ate a about a 100 when a friends’ father brought a huge bag (more like a sack.apparently they have too much in their garden and they do not sell it. It was the Malaysian type).ahhh…
good times…good times…
open up about 20, put them in a bowl and in the fridge until they are nice and cold, and then eat em Glorious!