Nope, it’s not nangka or cempedak. I’ve had both of those, though I don’t care for cempedak. Last month I did get an interesting fruit from a specialty fruit shop. The fruit was called Nancem; it’s a hybrid of nangka and cempedak. I thought it was excellent. The individual fruits inside were the size and shape of cempedak, but not as “heating” as cempedak, more mild.

But this Kuap, the outside more closely resembles a durian, except instead of duris it is covered in these strange rubbery stalks. The fruit inside is pure white like mangosteen, not yellowish at all. I may very well have gotten the name wrong though, or it may have a different name on the peninsula.