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• n  Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit
• n  pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines

• Shaded by rambutan trees, Habib and I sit on the veranda of his neat, one-story house in Parung, a 90-minute drive from Jakarta.
• WHY IT'S HOT American taste buds, inspired by kiwis and mangoes, are now into freaky fruit like rambutan WILL IT LAST? Wake up and smell the durian Seedless.
• Some of the more unusual ones on offer include rambutan, mangosteen, durian, jackfruit, pomelo, starfruit, zirzat, buah duku, chiku and jeruk.

• rambotan
• rambutan tree
• Nephelium lappaceum

News & Articles

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• MasterChef Christine Ha’s Recap: A Bloody Glee-ful Battle
  The remaining 15 MasterChef contestants get what I call a true mystery box. It's full of strange international ingredients, including salt-cured tuna from Spain; Okinawan sweet potato; elk flank from northern Europe; Russian cod liver; rambutan from southeast Asia; and Chinese black moss.
  June 20, 2013 - TV Guide
• Today's News: Our Take - MasterChef Christine Has Recap: A Bloody Glee-ful Battle
  The remaining 15 MasterChef contestants get what I call a true mystery box. It's full of strange international ingredients, including salt-cured tuna from Spain; Okinawan sweet potato; elk flank from northern Europe; Russian cod liver; rambutan from southeast Asia; and ...
  June 20, 2013 - Beauregard Daily News
• MasterChef Christine Has Recap: A Bloody Glee-ful Battle
  The remaining 15 MasterChef contestants get what I call a true mystery box. It's full of strange international ingredients, including salt-cured tuna from Spain; Okinawan sweet potato; elk flank from northern Europe; Russian cod liver; rambutan from southeast Asia; and ...
  June 20, 2013 - Beauregard Daily News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Jakarta Post
  I miss nasi goreng (fried rice), bakso (meatball soup) and rambutan,Obama told Yudhoyono during their five-minute telephone conversation when the latter transited in Seattle on his way home from Peru.
• Brian Jones in Malaysia Star
  There'sa bit of a paradox here, I think,Jones notes wryly. "When I talk to this generation of Malaysian adults and ask them about their childhood, they tell me about running free in the kampung without shoes, climbing durian and rambutan...