Tropical Fruits - Episode3 - the final chapter

I’m resigned to admitting that I would have failed to meet expectations which you may have had in this final chapter. Our local tour guide Main-san took us to a Vietnamese courtly food restaurant, where variety of foods were served in front of us and people playing traditional musical instruments an d dancing on the stage entertained us. Look at the fresh juicy fruits!
I smirked when I looked at …….them……? I meant those fruits on the plate those young ladies hung up.

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Among many other not introduced fruits like shaddock like fruit or plum like fruit named “Ryugan (eyes of dragon)”, the last picture shows a pineapple in ramification.

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The picture shows Monkey Banana which dangling at hand reached distance. It’s good for your handy emergency food

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Several kinds of fruits were served at the small lodge in the island. The host introduced each fruits with the names but I forgot all about it. It was nice when eating with salt lick.

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Was it its leaves or branches which spread like tumbling dragon with 9 heads and 9 tails? When the red fruit at the top of the branches (finally defined as branches) was cut, it showed white flesh with dotted black small seed, looked like the pulp of “Akebi”, tasted a bit acid.

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Mekong River Cruise, which actually used a small boat accommodated only 5-6 people, brought us with rough speed to a big island named Tython. It’s really a tropical island, where there were variety of fruits and vegetation, and thousands of people lived their lives on making coconut candy or cultivating catfish, etc. Please see the Dragon Fruit tree which I actually had never seen.

My yacht

It’s me who is standing in front of my yacht (Seahorse class)

Inage Beach

Inage Beach, located closed to Chiba Lotte Marine Stadium, is filled with so many people who enjoy sea bathing and wind surfing. There is yacht harbor where nation wide yacht races are held. Do you believe that there is such place at the north side of Tokyo Bay? The long economical recession made the price of 20 feet yacht in JPY 250k. You may be asked to hold small dinghy in free of charge.

Tropical Fruits - Episode 1

A week’s passed since coming back from the short trip to Vietnam. The time of pleasure flied and that makes a sharp contrast with the life in the working place where tons of piled jobs urging me with terrible suffering to struggle. The difficulties to communicate with the people in town who speak funny language made me recognize that I was a total stranger coming from another world. But I could benefit from being “alien” among them, as that made me forget about the daily strain where always required to have any insistence and claim. It was a bit embarrassing when I noticed that they saw us Japanese as the rich to spend so much money easily. But I as one the “rich” Japanese was astonished when I saw the sight where King of Fruits “Dorian”, which normally costs JPY5-6,000 to JPY20,000 if you buy in “Senbikiya” at Kyobashi, was sold in the similar way as the sale of lot of banana in Japan. People are prepossessed with an artificial sense of value formed separately from the blessing of the natural world.