Salak Fruit 蛇皮果

Salak Fruit 蛇皮果

The salak fruit or snake fruit, due to the reddish-brown snake-like scaly skin, is native to equatorial South-East Asia. The tree resembles an oil palm tree but much shorter and the fruits come in bunches and is found at the base of the tree. Each fruit has 3 lobes and the texture of the flesh is garlic-like. And the taste is sweet and a little acidic. So how do you get rid of the hard scaly skin? Simple, just pinch the tip of the fruit and break it and start peeling.

 Salak fruits

Peeled salak fruits