Costa Rican Fruits

[kyonides]

I forgot to add caimito and pineapple. Of course you may also get imported fruits like kiwi, apples, pears, grapes, raisins, blueberries (arándanos) and so on.

Guanábana is sweet if prepared as a drink, never ate the fruit itself but it's kind of soft. Don't eat the skin as usual.

Mamón chino is dangerous for kids because they usually think they can swallow it up but there's a seed they need to remove first...

Papaya is either bitter or a bit sweet. It depends on how you cut it before you can eat it or mix it with anything else. After you let it bleed for a while or several hours you can enjoy it's sweetness. It's a typical ingredient of the ponche de frutas or fruit punch. You may include watermelon, melon, pineapple and kola syrup.

Just imagine tasting an iced lime or iced kola with ice cream or milk powder or even condensed milk and some sorbet/hollow waffer while feeling the breeze on your skin down in Puntarenas or Guanacaste or Limón. Actually in Puntarenas they call these iced drinks or slush a churchill because a local that lived there decades ago looked like Sir Winston Churchill. O_O¡

As a advice I gotta tell you that you should never buy any bolillo fish in Puntarenas, you'd actually be eating a friend of mine...