Coconut palms look delightful. But don't sit under them, a guard warned me.
In Singapore, the awnings have gone up for the celebration dinner for the Autumn harvest festival, also called the mooncake festival. Workers from Malaysia are in Singapore cutting down the coconuts, for safety.
The cocnuts are yellow or brown.
In a previous year my family asked for a spare coconut. But it was very difficult to cut it open. This year we were more canny. We asked one of the workers to cut one open.
It took him longer than I expeced. I thought he would chop it in one blow. However, he chopped bits off in all directions with a machete.
The white inside was soft enough to be cut with a normal fruit knife.
The resulting milk is transparent and not very flavourful. But fresh. Fun.
The coconuts when cut open and left on the work surface immediately attracted little fruit flies. So we put the cocnut in the fridge for a minute or two until we were ready to drink.
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