Eaten when green, and when ripened. Pale green or soft pink, tastes very according to variety. Popularly eaten with a lgihtly chillied salt and sugar dip. Harvested throughout the year. Resembles a hybrid KiWi fruit and small potato.
Fruits taste like a mixture of figs and honey and are picked serveral times a year.
Tastes vary from sour to very sweet. Often squeezed for juice and used as a food flavouring. Uniquely Thai fruit resembling large grapefruit. Succulent sweet-sour fruit. Used as seasoning and flavouring in soups and curry pastes.