‘Torok’ – Local name (Bidayuh), nobody knows about the English or Malay name of this fruit. It’s a nonspecific seasonal fruit. Torok fruits are white in colour when it is not ripe and turns into red when it is ripe. The flesh inside is white just like mangosteen & it tastes almost like one too but minus the seeds. Some maybe a little sour but the ones I had were sweet.
In Sabah that fruit call ‘tangkub angkub’ by Kadazan n Dusun. Its taste like mangosteen and the skin can dried for add in our cooking just like tamarin.
Thanks Carl for that precious info. Appreciate that.
Ah… :). My roommate calls this buah aloong (Melanau). The skin is dried and used the same way as asam keping.
Thank you for giving us the Melanau name for this fruit. Yes the skin is very sour indeed.