Here’s my article about Salak (Snake Fruit): http://migrationology.com/2012/07/snake-fruit-salak/ and also check out my travel and street food website here http://migrationology.com/
There are a lot of exotic and awesome fruit varieties in Southeast Asia. The fruit just never seems to get boring – and there’s such a great diversity available, depending on the season. Throughout the year you’ll find things like mango, pineapple, bananas, rose apples, oranges, and mangosteen, and some other exotic fruits like durian, jackfruit, cempedak, and of course, salak, which is commonly known is English as snake fruit. The reason salak is called snake fruit is because the skin is remarkably similar to a snake – it really does appear to have scales and is dark brown in color.
What is snake fruit? Salak is actually native to Indonesia, but nowadays it can be found all over southeast Asia and even other parts of the world. It grows from the base of certain palm trees in clusters of about 20 or so of the fruit pieces in one clump. The fruit is picked and can be eaten just straight out of the outer wrapper or it can be served in one of the many local sweet desserts. For myself, I prefer to eat snake fruit (salak), right out of the snake looking shell. For this video, I grabbed some of the fruit while at the Chow Kit Market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. However, it’s possible to eat snake fruit all over southeast Asia and I frequently eat it on the streets of Bangkok where vendors conveniently peel it and package in plastic bags so you can eat it on the go.
What does salak taste like? Well, it kind of reminds me of a fermented apple. It’s super juicy and is almost like alcoholic apple juice – that is if the snake fruit is really ripe and ready to eat. I think the flavor is wonderful. It’s an exotic fruit, but I’m sure it would be quite appealing to most who give it a try.
There is one catch to eating snake fruit, and if you read the article above you’ll know what it is. But basically, just remember to eat that small white film that comes wrapped around each morsel of the fruit, don’t peel it! Eat too many peeled fruits and you could face constipation consequences – go it?! Let’s just say that I was in Indonesia eating snake fruit without knowing the consequences and though I ate about 25 pieces, I luckily overcame the force!
Next time you see some snake fruit (salak), be sure to give it a try!
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Noooo, don't throw away that seeds😮
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I will have to check that out. Thanks for the tip. Do you have any hobbies?
Looks like an armadillos ballsack
Is Salak fruit native to the Philippines?
Woah, i keep peeling the while film. Never new that
That is not snake fruit..that is name Salak Fruits. snake fruit to get the oil.
So I'm here because for years I hated snakefruit. I tried it in Indonesia, Thailand and I think Philippines. It always just tasted and smelled like paint thinner. Eventually I found a sweet and soft one in Thailand and I started to appreciate it. Then I came back to Bali and I found that there are a bunch of different types that are more crunchy and completely different taste than what I had before. What. Just today I had a crunchy one that reminded me more of an apple and was not smelly at all.
Has anyone found this fruit in the Philippines ? That's where i am
I have gone back as far as I could on your videos and I believe now I have watched every one of them and some twice if not 3 times
My favourite fruit on my Bali trip👍🏻😋😋👌
Me be like: ooooh looks yum
Thank you Mark, i really confused when teaching my son about english lesson "what snake fruit is..?" I tried to search it in google translate but i didn't find. In Indonesia we call it Salak. Again thanks bro 🙏
My favorite 😋😋😋💞🙏😘👍🍀🙏🙏🙏🌍🌏🌎🇨🇭💗💗💗
OMG is that you?. lol
Good fruit nice video👍😋💯😍
I searched your name and jackfruit to show my son what it is before we eat it and now its playing all your throwback videos. Awesome!
I really love snake fruit and how it taste😍
Salak is wrong
Ate that fruits at Phu Quoc island Vietnam and omg ot sours…. there some sweetness and tart but you sours
Ainda bem um que provou a fruta merece meu like
Buang sampah sembarangan
In Indonesia it also called salak, and there are 30 different cultivars here. I'm a snake fruit farmer, cultivated the Salak Pondoh – one of the best snake fruit ever.
Lol🇹🇷🇹🇷
OK I just bought some of those in Germany and they sure are "exotic"… 🙂
A mix between pineapple, kiwi and other strong fruit flavors on the more "alcohol based side".
Texture is between cooked chestnut and hard jello maybe, super odd.
Skin breaks into single scales and scabs of scales when peeled of.
Not my favorite, but bring a handful to some friends and see who is allergic to it… 🙂
I am a salak farmer, if you want to buy zalacca can contact me
It does not whatsoever looks like snake. Its suppose looks like a scale. So, scale fruit is more suit the terms to its physical object.
that is not how to eat SALAK, LOL
salak are from Jogja and Bali
Snake fruit… Good for your snake.
i love this fruit. tastes like lemon+pineapple
Did u try poep…
Snake fruit or Salak is yumi. Sweet and delicious, originally from Indonesia.
Gosh!!!! Is that what you do back in Thailand? Throwing seeds around. Wonder what you do with the skin.
Ohhhh can anyone tell me wich fruit tastes similar to this snake fruit?
In my town lot of Salak fruit. If u visit to my town, i will pick u up to the Salak Village in Bojonegoro, east java, Indonesia.
I feel stupid for only knowing basic fruits.
I eat that!! It good
You can eat that white film