Yamanashi Summer Angel Plums

Saw some expensive plums (S$10 each) and decided to try them to see how different they were from normal plums. They're apparently Yamanashi Summer Angel plums, based on some digging I did on the seller's website. Has a high sugar content of 15-17 degrees. I bought them when they were extremely ripe and already going at a discount! And I think that was a good decision because I didn't have to wait but could eat them at perfect ripeness.

At first, I was questioning my decision to buy them so soft, but there was absolutely no regret. It was extremely, extremely sweet, so sweet that there was a winey taste to it, similar to the wine taste when you eat other expensive fruit from Japan, like ultra sweet yubari melons, or extremely ripe and sweet pineapples. Except unlike the yubari melons, there was no glue/turpentine taste. It was just the pure white wine honey taste. Amazing. I don't know how else to describe it.

And because it's a plum, not a melon or pineapple, it was super super soft, like a jelly, with no fibrousness or crunch. Pure melt-in-your mouth texture. I wonder if it would have been the same had I eaten them less ripe.

The bright sunset colours upon cutting them were also really beautiful!

Totally worth the price!