My Tho Fruit Market In Southern Vietnam

My Tho is known for its huge district of exotic fruits and offers many best kinds of fruits in the Mekong Delta. It's considered one famous fruit market in Mekong Delta. Let’s once come to My Tho fruit market and you will realize many interesting things in this land.

The Mekong River Delta is a river with the name “of nine dragons” include the mangroves rule the swamps; and the canals’ dark waters have tales to tell. It's the richest and most fertile area in Vietnam; the river itself has its source as far north as Tibet and passes through more countries in Asia than any other river.

Nowaday, My Tho is always the first stop on tourists’ bus tour, and you are going to get a lesson on exotic fruit; even if you are not passionate on this subject, the mere color and shape of some of these delicacies will change your mind.

Durian

At here, the durian  has earned its place as the "King of Fruits" among its peers. With large size, unique odour, and formidable thorn-covered husk.  It is huge, green on the outside, and smells like Camembert cheese on the inside. The fruit can grow up to 30 centimetres long and 15 centimetres in diameter, and typically weighs one to three kilograms. Its shape ranges from oblong to round, the colour of its husk green to brown, and its flesh pale-yellow to red.  When enjoy this fruit, you will feel a distinctive odour, strong and penetrating even when the husk is intact. some as fragrant, others as overpowering and offensive but with a bite, it's much more delicious than its odour!

Rambutan

The rambutan is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family in Mekong Delta. Although its precise natural distribution is unknown but it  is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits including the Lychee, Longan and Mamoncillo. The taste of rambutan is very similar to lychee and tastes like a sweet, chewy apple and it's a popular fruit in Mekong Delta.

Logan

Longan is a wonderful and delicious tonic fruit to build energy, to nurture the heart, and to add luster and beauty to the skin. It is believed that Longan is not only great for the skin, but is also a fantastic sex tonic and  It is believed to have a calming effect and to add radiance to the eyes. For that reason, longan is considered as a special fruit for human health.

Mango

Mango fruits are oval and egg shaped with smooth, soft skin.  The skin is usually a combination of green, red, and yellow. It's is one  of the most extensively exploited fruits for food, juice, flavor, fragrance and color, making it a common ingredient in new functional foods. When ripe, the unpeeled fruit gives off a distinctive resinous sweet smell and often called super fruits.

Dragon fruit

One of the most attractive fruits is the dragon fruit, because it looked like a flower about to bloom.  It has interesting black seeds inside and a white flesh, so that when it is cut, the red rind gives it a really lovely frame. This fruit is cactus family and  is planted in Vietnam, especially in the Southern areas, since the beginning of century 20. Nowaday, Vietnam  is a country that exports dragon fruit with a large trade scale. Dragon fruit is a fruit that has high nutrition value, a lot of water and mineral substance; makes liver well and laxative. Dragon fruit is good for people who get high blood pressure and obese. Beside that, dragon fruit can limit development of diabetes, thus dragon fruit is a kind of fruit that many people like best.

Pineapple

Known as a single fleshy fruit with many nutrients and its lickerish odour. Pineapple is commonly used in desserts and other types of fruit dishes, or on its own.

Besides, The star apple or “vũ sữa” is very sweet and creamy. You will also see guava, banana, custard-apple, water-melon, strawberry and lots of others.

If you have an opportunity to travel to Vietnam, you should spend a few time to visit the market in Mekong Delta: Some floating market as Cai Rang floating market, Cai Be floating market or the fruit market as My Tho fruit market.... Because all are the amazing markets to explore in Mekong Delta on each your trip. Specially, when join My Tho fruit market you will enjoy the delicious fruits with the local people.

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