1. Durian :
* choose one with a wider and soften spines.
* smell fragrant with a perfect spines
* if we slap it, we can figure out from the sound that it’s not hollow
* look at its stem (cut it a little), yellow stem means best durian
* don’t pick one with perfect round, unusual shape usually indicates good durian.

2. Mango:
* choose one with yellow/yellowish stem.
* choose one which fragrance is on all over it.
* its stem is fragrance and wide. Its peel is smooth and tight, without any shrinking. It smells sweet.
* choose one with blur dark green peel and black speckled.

3. Orange :
* choose the yellow one, instead of the light yellow one.
* a thin and shiny peel is a good choice.
* for ‘Jeruk Medan’ : choose one which is heavy and with dimples on its peel
(you can feel it with your tumb) choose one with smooth dimples.

4. Watermelon/Melon :
* we usually pat watermelon to find out whether it is hollow or not. If it is hollow then it is juicy, not fresh.
* melon, choose the fragrance one.
* notice on the stem, choose one with expanded stem
* choose melon which has a lot of scretch and a thick one; one which is ready to reap, according to Trubus.
* choose melon which seeds seem to fall of when we shake it.

5. Avocado :
* shake avocado, choose one that gives us sound when we shake it, it is ripe.
* choose one with smooth peel.

6. Duku (lanseh totree):
* thin and smooth peel, soft and blackish; means it is ripe and sweet. However, brown colour and a rather juicy one means it is rotten.

7. Mangosteen :
* choose one with smooth peel.
* with dark purple fresh colour. Feel all surfaces, the hard part means raw or rotten. Its stem is whole and fresh green. A smaller mangosteen is usually better than the big one; due to its uneven ripe.
* put it in the water, good mangosteen will float on the water (from Trubus)
* choose one with a wide apart petals on the lower part of the fruit.

8. The differences between Salak Pondoh and Bali:
* salak Pondoh has a smaller size with a dry crust and usually in a cone shape.
* salak Bali has a thicker flesh and a smaller seeds.
* press its head, find one with soften crust and acute head for sweet salak.

9. Papaya :
* for common papaya (not the ‘bangkok’ one), choose one which has a long shape. Don’t choose papaya with small size on one end and big size on the other end and vice versa.

10. Apple :
* choose crunchy apple, if it is tapped
(snapped by finger) pierce sound means it is juicy, ‘bariton’ sound means not too crunchy’

11. Sawo (sapodilla):
* choose the soft one with dark brown peel. Do not bother shapes and sizes; as long as the peel is smooth, it’s a good one. Never pick sapodilla with even a small scretch/hole though it is a big one. Don’t pick one with gum on its peel; usually it will harden the flesh.

12. Banana :
* especially for ‘pisang ambon’, choose one with round shape.
* dry stem means the banana has been long ‘separate’ from the tree