Even though you can find these in California, I had this one in China. They're also known as Pitahaya or Strawberry Pear and they taste quite delicious. They smell subtly fragrant, sweet like a pear, but tart maybe like a kiwi. You spoon out the flesh like a melon, but the texture is more like an over-ripe pear — sort of grainy — or like a limp radish. It's delicious but the hot pink, leathery outside makes me think that it wasn't meant to be eaten.

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