is a member citrus family. It comes in pink or yellow varieties when ripe, is somewhat like a large grapefruit, but much sweeter in flavour and with much less bitterness.
To eat, use a knife to carve the green skin off, peel off all the white fleshy part of the skin.
There are many tasty kinds of pomelo in Vietnam, often named after the location where it grows. In the North, there is the Doan Hung pomelo (Phu Tho Province), in the Central there is the Phuc Trach pomelo (Ha Tinh Province), and in the South there is the Tan Trieu pomelo (Bien Hoa Province).