The fruits one finds in Thailand make for a great variety of tastes, textures, and colors. Some will be familiar to Western visitors, others perhaps not so. Fresh markets are up and running very early in the morning around the country, offering a wide selection of choices, including—depending on the season—durian, mangoes, papayas, mangosteen, rambutan, bananas, dragon fruit, and more. Fruit is also found at floating markets, and street vendors set up their stands on sidewalks in the cities, offering freshly prepared morsels that are ready to eat.

Fruits

A variety of fresh fruits at the floating market at Damnoen Saduak
Fruit seller at Damnoen Saduak floating market
Durian
Rambutan, with mangosteen in the foreground, longan and durian in back
Sugar apples
Durian seller
Salacca
Durian
Stink beans and langsat (Lansium domesticum)
Rambutan
Durian
A bounty of offerings at the Sisaket fruit festival
Mangosteen
Longan (Thai: lamyai )
Rambutan
Treetop papayas
Immature papayas
Durian seller
Ripe mangoes—just waiting to be picked
Vendors in Bangkok's Chinatown offering fresh fruit and freshly squeezed juice
Beautiful apples (actually imported from the U.S.) and oranges in Chinatown, Bangkok
Slicing green mango over a case filled with pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe, and guava
Oranges from China, candied jujube (left), bael (lower right), and dried nutmeg (upper right)
Durian saplings
Fruit sellers carving and packaging their wares on Moon Muang Road in Chiang Mai
Fresh fruit in abundance—and red and green chili peppers
The woman in the foreground is preparing sticky rice with mango. The boats next to hers offer pomelo, bananas, coconut, pineapple, mangosteen, and more.
This woman is trimming the meat of jackfruit. The cellophane-wrapped packages contain dried preserves of mango, honeyed dried bananas, pomelo sections, and jackfruit.
An array of fresh fruits for sale in Chiang Mai. In the foreground, left to right: nutmeg, dragon fruit, and Thai guava. The truck in the background has a load of durian.
Bananas and other fruits at a night market in Chiang Mai