While young, food was rather scarce. So when the elders ever gave us some of those soury fruits, we also felt so nice. Ate those fruits until the teeth felt uneasy! Have you ever experienced that? :)
The kedondong that I had was from a good friend's sister (my friend is Angela.) Her sister had this kedondong in her backyard and full bloom. I was envied by the sight and she gave me a good bundle.
I tried to plant most of the seeds after eating the flesh. That was many years ago. From there, it propagated to the present. From some 400 km away, I sent many fruits to one of my siblings here and from there, I got the present plant from the fruits. (Sadly to say, Angela ever told me her sister's kedondong had died, so was mine one in my old home some 400km away both due to white ants' infestion.) However, the seeds still carry on to live...........
We like to eat those fruits by
1) blending the fruits without the seeds and add bits of plum powder or honey to make kedondong juice
2) eat the fruit with prawn paste (belacan) fried with archovies (ikan bilis) as the belacan is salty, the fruit is a bit sour, so it will balance off the taste..
3) sometimes, we eat the fruit with bits of sugar or plum powder
