What A FRUITful Day! - 7 August 2009

My fruits inventory is getting very low. So with some self-declared available time for the afternoon, I gathered 4 colleagues and squeezed ourselves into my car and drove down to my favorite fruits shop – Freshmart – over at Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre. On our way, we stopped at the food court over at Fusionopolis for a quick lunch. The variety of food stalls there is actually quite wide and the food is actually not bad. No wonder they have a good lunch crowd. I tried the Indian naan with mutton and loved it. Will definitely go back and try the other stalls.
Reached Freshmart at about 1.15 pm. As usual Lilian is there to serve us.

I love to buy fruits from Freshmart as the prices are about 40%-50% cheaper than that at Cold Storage. Moreover, the fruits are fresher as we are buying direct from the importers. They sell to the surpermarkets and fruit stalls. They import the fruits from US, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Pakistan etc etc but not from Malaysia as we can easily get these from elsewhere.

This time around, for the five of us, we bought –
· 4 crates of Canada cherries (5 kg per crate). They are one of the biggest cherries I ever seen;
· 4 boxes of Pakistani honey mangoes (5 mangoes per box). The shapes of the mangoes do not look nice and we were told that they are very sweet.
· 1 crate of American strawberries (4 boxes per crate and 20 strawberries per box). Again these are very big and with the stalk and leaves intact.
· 10 boxes of champagne grapes.
· 10 boxes of sweet prunes (1 kg per box)

Of course, I have the biggest share with half the allocation. Popped by Andrew’s place to give him some of the fruits.

Was trying the fruits just now at home. Simply love all except just one slight complaint that the Canada berries will be fantastic if not for them being a bit soft. It may be due to me putting them way too long in the car boot as I was having dinner at the in-laws’ place. Let’s see how tomorrow after being in the fridge for a whole night.

Planning to go back to Freshmart again next week;-). Yeah!