A vegetable starfruit is a category of fruits, it is can be included into that category, however, the starfruit in that the picture is not a fruit instantly can to eat but it is often referred to as a vegetable starfruit. Because, it is often used to add a sour taste to the broth.
As for the star fruit which directly can be eaten like other fruits, namely just the star fruit, the shape is like a star and the size is larger than the size of the vegetable starfruit, it can be eaten immediately without having to be processed first. After being picked from the tree it can be eaten instantly.
A vegetable starfruit must be processed first before it can to be eaten, for example it is must mixed into fish broth, vegetable broth and so on. Rarely are people able to eat a vegetable starfruit because of its extraordinary sour taste. A vegetable starfruit very sour.
Indeed a vegetables starfruit are more often put into the broth. In aceh, are the broth of a vegetable starfruit is known as kuah asam keu eung, asam keu eung that in Acehnese language, in Indonesiankuah asam keu eung is called by a spicy sour broth. Because there is a sour taste from the star fruit.
As for the taste of the spicy sour broth, there is an excessive sour taste, as well as there is an excessive spicy taste. And generally people in Aceh really like the spicy and sour broth. Moreover, the type of fish cooked in spicy and sour really supports appetite.
So when the spicy and a sour broth is cooked with a certain type of a fish, the people of Aceh can’t stop for eating a rice, they can't stop for eating unless the extraordinary feeling of fullness is really felt in them stomach, then they can stop for eating.
A vegetable starfruit is very easy to find it in Aceh, almost all Acehnese houses have a vegetable starfruit trees. Not only starfruit trees, in the yards of a people's houses in Aceh there are almost all types of vegetables, except for a people who live in the provincial towns, just a people who live there don't easily have a starfruit trees.
If you need to cook a spicy and a sour broth, a people who live in the provincial capital must buy a vegetable starfruit first at the market, not like the Acehnese who live in their villages, they don't have to buy it, they just pick it from trees in their yards of houses.
A vegetable starfruit can also be processed into asam sunti, asam sunti is in Acehnese language if in Indonesian language it is called by a vegetable starfruit acid. A vegetable starfruit acid it is one type of a spice category in Aceh. A vegetable starfruit acid can also be made into a salad seasoning and to other acid.
A vegetables starfruit trees there is a fruit don't have to be in season for fruit, no. Every time the tree will definitely have a fruit, that's the advantage that vegetables starfruit trees have, a fruit doesn't have to be in season. Every time he will bear for a fruit and bear a fruit.
In contrast from a star fruit trees, a star fruit trees be a bear for fruit in season, if it is not the fruit season the tree will not bear a fruit at all. That is the difference between a vegetable starfruit tree and a star fruit trees, whose a fruit can be eaten immediately after being picked from the trees.
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April 12, 2023
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Thayeb Loh Angen
Author’s asst. Syukri Isa Bluka Teubai.
Photo by Jamaluddin-Lodin LA. With the Nikon D7000 Camera, Nikon 18-55mm Lens.
Captions for All Photos: A Vegetable Starfruit, April 9, 2023.
