Pulasan aka king of rambutans

Jul 26th, 2005

Pulasan is scarcely found on sale except an occasional appearances on hypermarkets and roadside stalls. It is a seasonal fruit and available around the middle of the year.

I do wish they would plant more pulasan trees. I prefer pulasan than rambutans. However, price is a factor.

The above pulasan was bought from the Tapah rest stop. A bunch cost RM11 when the same number of rambutans will cost only around RM3.

The skin is thick red with tiny soft thorns or spikey. It has a single seed with white flesh. Unlike rambutan, the flesh easily come off from the seed. The taste of the pulasan is mildly sweet with almost no sourish taste.

I google for pulasan and as usual not much is written about this fruit. We have so many types of tropical fruits that are confined within South-East Asia. It is a pity that all these exotic tropical fruits aren’t introduce around the world. Many of them are certainly hardier than all those berries and good for export, aren’t they?

8 Comments on “Pulasan aka king of rambutans”

#1 can
on Jul 26th, 2005 at 1:41 pm

Try Kuala Kubu Bahru, I had the best so far this year at RM5.50 a bunch.
#2 Silencers
on Jul 26th, 2005 at 4:21 pm

YAY! You blogged abt pulasannnss!!! Yummehh!
#3 Chen
on Jul 26th, 2005 at 5:46 pm

wow.. haven’t eat pulasan for long long long long time already..
#4 boo_licious
on Jul 26th, 2005 at 7:02 pm

I love pulasan too. I must make request for some to be supplied soon since someone I know has a pulasan tree at home.
#5 Peter
on Jul 27th, 2005 at 12:59 am

congrats, another great malaysian website !!
#6 Kris
on Jul 5th, 2006 at 6:06 pm

Some Asian fruits like the mangosteen are forbidden from being imported into the US because of fruit fly threats to US fruit crops. You can get rambutan and durian in Hawaii, though.
#7 Pulasan Fruit at Relaunched, Blog of Malaysia Food and Travel
on Sep 11th, 2006 at 3:07 pm

[...] When I was shopping in Carrefour this afternoon, I saw something very familiar in the fruits section which looked like rambutan. Then I remembered reading about this fruit in MalaysiaBest. Recalling how tasty they were as described by Lilian, I bought 7 of them @ RM2.54. [...]
#8 Pulasan Fruit
on Jan 16th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

[...] in the fruits section which looked like rambutan. Then I remembered reading about this fruit in MalaysiaBest. Recalling how tasty they were as described by Lilian, I bought 7 of them @ [...]