Asian cuisine features a wide variety of unique fruits and vegetables due to the diverse climate and geography in Asia. Some of the more unusual fruits and vegetables discussed include the taro root, which has a rough hairy texture and mild taste; bitter gourd, a lumpy vegetable used in Filipino cooking that lives up to its bitter name; and the notoriously smelly durian fruit that smells like rotten food but is popular in parts of Southeast Asia. The document also profiles several other intriguing Asian produce options such as the small red yangmei fruit, the enormous spiky jackfruit, thin-skinned Buddha's hand citrus, spicy galangal root, tiny kumquats, the striped dragon