THE other day I finally worked up the courage to try a pretty strange looking fruit which Japanese people seem to love. They're in season right now so their price is (relatively) cheap.
Persimmons come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from egg shapes (popular in China) to a flat tomato-ish shape (popular in Japan).
I've tried Persimmon in two different conditions, just under-ripe and very ripe.
When it was under-ripe the taste and texture was very close to that of a peach or apricot.
But the real flavour of this fruit is revealed when it's ripe, it tastes and the inside texture feel like a very ripe mango! Pretty interesting fruit, two different textures and flavours which are both good but would not normally be thought of as similar.
