If you’ve been to Japan, you’ve seen them for sure.

Those perfect fruits that look like they were printed on a 3D printer. Each item is located in its own cell inside a box. The price is fucking insane.

They’re usually found in ultra-expensive shops at Ginza, or in Kinokuniya, or in certain boutiques where you can get a gift box full of them.

It’s customary to pay a visit to someone who is apparently very “respectable” with such sets.

I was sure this was no more than a fucking show off thing. Just until the moment I bought a bunch of “3D grapes”, a small one for $70.

Hmm… I must say that that “product” gave me a lasting impression; if briefly, that chimera had nothing to do with ordinary grapes. Not only did it look completely different from the regular one, just like supermodels differ from ordinary people, but it was also the taste: it felt like a perfect model of a grape taste.

It’s hard to explain. It’s different and same at once.

In short, afterwards I’ve tried various types of these kind of superfruits: persimmon, peaches, white strawberries. All of them were beautiful in every possible way except their cocaine’s price.

But once in Taiwan, having some spare hours before the plane, I dropped in to a market opposite the fish cluster in Taipei.

There were empty corridors, barred trading spots and loaders there, and suddenly: the fucking alley “full of life” – 400-meter hallway that was tightly packed with boxes of fruits, looking at which Michurin would stare wide-eyed.

“It’s expensive! It all comes from Japan!”

“Aha-a-a…”

Really, expensive? A fucking box of white strawberry at $30 instead of 120, grapes at 25 and so on; +++ lots of fruits of the quality that you won’t find even in Japan.

Do enjoy!