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Bangkok Chronicles: Fruits, electrolytes and my favourite flower tea

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It feels like yesterday when we were in college and joking about Indian mothers force-feeding their children to eat fruit. " Beta, yeh lo fruit khao, fruit ". In the blink of an eye one realises that people do (scarily) become like their parents, or other elders in their lives. One must accept what one cannot change. So here I am, still writing paragraph after paragraph on the joys of discovering known and unknown fruits. For variety, this time I have added some juices and teas to the mix. Passion Fruit The modern world is such that we are more likely to have slathered passion-fruit fragranced cream on ourselves ( a la Body Shop ) than actually eating a passion fruit. Although I had tasted one before, I must confess the first time I actually sliced a passion fruit open was just a few months ago. After a few tasting rounds, I still consider them to be a bit too sour for my taste buds, and the seeds are too 'chewy'. Since the fruit has tonnes of health benefits, I shall...