papaya

I was introduced to papaya for the first time in my life during my first journey to Miri.

The Bisaya family served me papaya. I saw the reddish fruit with black seeds and I was so terrified of this unknown fruit that I could not eat it.

I truly believed that if my family had not served me this fruit before in the longhouse, I was not to eat it.

I still chuckle when I remember this incident. In later years, papayas became my all time favourite fruit.