...: "Fruits are only food you buy from streetvendors" Top 5 Page for this destination Antananarivo Shopping Tip by Norali

You would see in the streets (in Antaninarenina, Analakely, Avenue de l'Independance), while parking your car, streetvendors with baskets full of fruits and carrying a pair of scales. They would insist you buying those fruits. Why not? After all, even brought-in European fruits such as apples, peaches, pears, strawberries are sweeter and more juicy there... they taste better than those you will find in European supermarkets, for instance.

When a French acquaintance of my Dad tasted the Malagasy golden apple for the first time, he couldn't recognise this common European variety since it was more yellow, sweeter here... Took him some time to recognise it.

Just pay attention to weighing & don't eat them unless you've carefully washed them.

What to buy: Any fruit you want since they taste better than those you will find in European supermarkets, for instance. Try even European fruits: apples, peaches, strawberries are sweeter and more juicy there...
In summer, don't miss mangoes (yellow, green, red peels), pineapple, litchis, papaya... pomme-cannelle (a sop fruit), sopy (another sop type).

I doubt you'll find jackfruit easily still it is a all-year-round fruit. I don't buy it since we have a jackfruit tree (or a jack ???) that provides us with the fruits in all seasons.

What to pay: Not expensive at all!! But bargaining is the rule here...
[End may 2006: just saw a report on average supermarket prices on tv: papaya (1000-1500 ariary piece), banana (500 ariary/kg - 700 ariary for pinkish banana), apple (around 2000 ariary/kg).... 1euro = 13000 ariary]. Streetvendor prices use to be lower than those.

Theme: Food and Drink