Chopped fruit and fritters coated in dark sauce with crushed peanuts.

Rojak buah

Singapore · Southeast Asia

Short description
This fruit-and-fritter salad is sweet, tangy, salty, crunchy, and sticky with a dark prawn-paste dressing.
Ingredients
Pineapple, jicama, cucumber, green mango, fritters, tofu puffs, prawn paste, tamarind, sugar, chile, lime, and roasted peanuts.
Cultural note
It is associated with hawker and market snacks where the ingredients are chopped, tossed, and served immediately.
Common misconception
It is not a light fruit salad; the dressing is savory, fermented, nutty, and often spicy.

image credit

Aunt Lay Leong's Penang Fruit Rojak (2875298186).jpg

creator:
Alpha from Melbourne, Australia
license:
CC BY-SA 2.0
modified:
Copied from Wikimedia Commons and center-cropped/resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no other edits.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.