In years…
Recently, I managed to drop by an orchard aka ‘kebun’ that belongs to one of my ex-neighbour in Seremban. It was totally a random plan as the original plan was to visit a nursery there to get some potted plants and flowers for the garden.
The kebun is quite faraway within the traditional villages but suprisingly accessable via LEKAS highway. Cool eh?
*poke* *poke* *poke*
I took the first shift to pluck the mangosteen from the tree using a handmade-out-of-bamboo sort-of plucker. Thank goodness for my childhood training, the ‘kampung girl’ inside of me didn’t dissappoint me and it just took me a few minutes to get myself familiar with the task.
This is my haul.
Yeah… Yeah… I know it doesn’t look much but this was only one portion of my haul. *grin*
Freshly picked mangosteen..
Believe it or not, freshly picked mangosteen tastes divine. Sweet and soft…..
While having my break and eating some of those delicious mangosteen, I started to walk around the small orchard.
*pointing to the left* Oh lookieee... Weaver birds nests!
My host pointed out to the tree and we spotted like 5 weaver birds nests, swaying along with the wind.
A clean and clear, small stream..
Nearby to that tree there is a very small stream. She mentioned that there are some fishes in that stream. Hehehehe… I think I know what should I bring for the next trip *wink*
Some 'ayam kampung' aka village chicken?! lol
As usual, I started to harrass some chickens. Luckily chicken was not on dinner’s menu that night….
Grass-eating chickens...
I was dumb-strucked suprised to see when my host throw some freshly-cut grass into the chicken pen, the chickens literary ran for it and devour it like some hungry animal that didn’t eat for days!
From left to right: Rambutan tree, mangosteen tree and sentul tree.
Alrighty, things are getting more botanical-ish from here….
I saw a rambutan tree, mangosteen tree (duh!) and a sentul tree.
From left to right: Cempedak tree, chilli plant and ginger plant.
Cempedak tree, chilli plant and ginger plant. To me, the ginger plant can be easily mistaken for torch ginger plant.
From left to right: Pineapple plant, banana tree and kaffir lime plant.
A row of pineapple plant, banana tree and
kaffir lime plant. I bet very few people knows that the other name for kaffir lime is actually ‘limau purut’.
Can you guess how many mangosteen pieces are inside?
Both my mom and my host taught me a little trick/fact about mangosteen. If you want to know how many pieces are inside, just count at the bottom part of the mangosteen. OK from now on, you guys better start counting before eating mangosteen. LOL
After more than 2 hours spending some time there, it’s time for us to go home but not with empty-hand! We brought back all the mangosteen and some rambutans.
*while nom-ing mangosteen*
Looking forward to go back soon!
Rusty ‘kampung girl’ blogger,
DiEsE of BaYnN.com
July 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Around Us, family | Category: Around Us | Comments (2)
