Queen of Fruits

I remember years ago I reluctantly purchased a few of these at around $15.00 a kilo and thought I got ripped off.  Once tasted all my doubts went away.  It was refreshing semi-sweet delicate fruit and nothing that compared with the look of this fruit.  Later, I found out this is the "Queen of Fruits" Mangosteen.  When I travel, specially somewhere I haven't been before, a trip to the local supermarket is a must! not long ago, in a supermarket in Hong Kong I saw the perfect-est fruits from Japan which made me feel I was in a museum and what an eye candy they are! Then I saw something familiar, at around HK$20 for 6 Mangosteens so fresh you could smell it through the packaging ...  and I knew it was a bargain! Along with the freshest and string-free mangoes, I was in fruit haven! Last weekend, again I saw these at $20 something a kilo, so old and tired from the all the travelling these fruits had to do to make it to our supermarket shelves and there was one thing on my mind ... I wish I lived in the tropics!