{"id":2687,"date":"2012-03-16T20:12:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2012-03-16T20:12:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:12:22","slug":"the-new-mango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/the-new-mango\/","title":{"rendered":"The new mango"},"content":{"rendered":"

My birthday was so spectacular that it is taking me awhile to get through photos and videos to post. So in the meantime, I thought I’d share one of my new food discoveries here in Bali.<\/p>\n

While in Costa Rica last year, I discovered my love of a good mango<\/em>. Mangoes were so plentiful and fresh \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I just couldn’t get enough. I purchased a few from my local grocery store in the states, and they’re okay, but just not the same as a fresh, ripe from the vine mango in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

I was hoping I might find similarly fresh and tasty mangoes in Bali, but it is not their season. Instead, I was served an interesting fruit I’ve never tried before \u00e2\u20ac\u201c fresh mangosteen<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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Pretty purple\/red on the outside – white, juicy fleshy sections on the inside. The texture of the fruit is kind of like the soft areas of a honeydew. Or maybe a bit like a peach. But the taste is different than either…. it is reminiscent of many fruits – but hard to describe<\/em>. <\/p>\n

It was very good, different than I would’ve expected. When we stopped by a farmers market the other day, one of the vendors offered me a mangosteen ‘gratis’, in hopes I would purchase more. One bite and I was hooked! <\/p>\n

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It was even sweeter and fresher than the mangosteen I had eaten for breakfast the day prior. I purchased 5 and paid 5,000 Rupiah. That may sound like a lot, but it’s only .55 cents – basically 11 cents each. I think they often sell for over $3.00 EACH <\/strong>when imported into the states (if you can even find it)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So mangosteen is the new mango<\/em>. And now I’m going to go to the market and buy more!<\/p>\n

Have you ever tried fresh mangosteen? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was hoping I might find similarly fresh and tasty mangoes in Bali, but it is not their season. Instead, I was served an interesting fruit I’ve never tried before \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the mangosteen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6,11],"tags":[216,106,47,73,223,221,222,242],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bali-travel","category-reviewsrecommendations","category-travel","tag-bali","tag-costa-rica","tag-diet","tag-food","tag-fresh","tag-fruit","tag-indonesia","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}