Author: Nur Firdaus
While I posted about Tarap fruit, there was a friend from the Malaysian Heritage group request me to share about one of the ′′ rare ′′ fruits in Malaysia which is Temponek fruit.
Apparently this fruit is like jackfruit, even like cempedak also like tarap. The difference between this fruit is thorny outside like durian. But don't worry, this fruit durian is smooth and not as hard as durian durian.
Filling the fruit is orange, sour and sweet and seeds like a cempedak. There are also words that taste like mangosteen. If I ask me now, I don't know what it feels like because I haven't eaten this fruit before. Who knows if there's someone generously wants to treat me to this Temponek Alhamdulillah 😆😜😆
Oh yup, this fruit when young, is green yellow and when cooking is orange.
This fruit is very rare planted or sold anywhere in Malaysia. Normally, the place you can find this fruit tree is just low-priced rainforest or Indigenous settlement.
Because this fruit is too ′′ rare ′′ and worried about extinction in Malaysia, an initiative has been taken by the Terengganu government through the Terengggan State Forest Service by declaring Temponek fruit as one of the 32 fauna protection trees that cannot be cut down.
In fact, this tree has also been added to the list of 4100 trees to Taman Taman Tugu Negara as a result of cooperation between the Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia and the Malaysian Natural Lovers Association.
Other than this fruit can be eaten just like that, there are also Malaysians who make this temponek as a pengat. Some put temponek into bamboo and burned like burning lemang before eating. If asked whether it's delicious or not, I don't know. But look at the picture, wow, tiber-tiber of my appetite.
Anyway may this fruit continue to be fertile and bloom in this lucky land of earth. That's all.
#uniknyamalaysia
Image Credit
📸 Viral Collection
📸 WWF-Malaysia
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