Video of ‘rubber dragonfruit’ goes viral

Buying fruit is kind of a hit or miss sometimes – it’s so easy to get it wrong and end up with a piece that’s not yet ripe, or just kind of funky tasting. Sometimes you can do everything right and still end up with rotten, withered black gunk instead of delicious fruit (why you gotta play us like that, avocados?). We get it. Nature is imperfect, we know this.

So please take us very seriously when we say from the bottom of our hearts, that there is some freaky shit going on here:

 

【真.惡魔之果 = 橡筋火龍果】

【真.惡魔之果 = 橡筋火龍果】出現了One Piece一樣既恐怖真.惡魔之果 ,橡筋火龍果!!片主20/10係深水埗買,佢形容: 「$10兩個(好大個),切第一個食一兩啖覺得甜到好過份,好似食砂糖咁! 即吞覺得唔對路! 隨即切第二個,仲恐怖,切唔開,扯都要好用力先扯得開!!肢解完個火龍果,入面d黑色粒粒仲可好獨立地分解痴滿我隻手,好似黑芝麻咁!」from:Vikki Ng最新最強爆片,都係由爆片王 轉發!你一定要Like定

Posted by 爆片王 on Tuesday, 20 October 2015

 

In a video that was submitted to viral video page “Explosive Clip King” yesterday, netizen Vikki Ng is seen trying to pull the flesh of a dragonfruit apart, saying “I can’t even tear it apart! It’s like it’s made out of rubber.” 

Ng reportedly bought the fruit from a vendor on Kweilin Street in Sham Shui Po after noticing two of the “extra large” fruit would only set her back HKD10. After taking them home, she tried to eat one and found the flesh was strangely sweet to the point where it was “like eating rock sugar”. She then proceeded to cut into the second piece, which she claims had unusually rubbery flesh and sticky black seeds.

Naturally, she made the video to spread awareness about the abnormal fruit.

Some netizens commented that the fruit may have been injected with sugary syrup, while others questioned whether it was entirely counterfeit, asking “When did Hong Kong become like this?” Other commenters were considerably less outraged, humorously remarking that Ms. Ng would be “defecating rubber” the next day. 

Today, a Ming Pao reporter visited “Tokyo Fruit”, where Ms. Ng purchased the whatever-it-is and spoke to the vendor. She claimed that they have not experienced any problems with their dragonfruit, which apparently comes from Vietnam. The reporter bought two dragonfruits and cut them open to reveal what seemed to be perfectly ordinary flesh. 

The incident has been reported to the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, who have yet to make a comment. 

Photo (for illustration): Annette Chan


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