Epicures will enjoy the vast array of cuisine the Brunei offers. Ranging from home cooked meals to fine international cuisines. One will find that Bruneian fare generally exudes the unmistakable flavour of cultural miscegenation. This is probably due to the influence of the various nationalities that have come and settled within the Brunei society through the years, adding their mother's secret ingredients and styles of cooking to the food they serve.

The agricultural activities in Brunei Darussalam also include poultry, vegetable farming, fruit plantation and landscaping. As the Government has a keen interest in maintaining an efficient and export oriented agricultural sector, it has adopted a policy to raise domestic production levels. This will eventually change its current status from a net importer to a net exporter of agricultural produce.

The Department of Agriculture has initiated a fruit-farming scheme to encourage fruit cultivation in the country. In an effort to increase the production of local fruits, the Government has provided various incentives such as basic infrastructures and agricultural inputs including land areas, farm road, water source (ponds), electricity, water supply, fertilizers, pesticides barbed wire, planting materials and advisory services. Bananas, watermelons, papayas, pineapples, sweet oranges, durians, coconuts, cempedak and rambutans are the priority fruits to be produced commercially.

Orchards and backyard gardens produce a wide range of seasonal and non-seasonal tropical fruits. Traditional production systems produce non-seasonal fruits such as bananas, papayas, pineapples, watermelons and seasonal fruits namely, durian, chempedak, tarap

Durian. The rainforests of the small country of Brunei, on the northeast coast of the island of Borneo, may be the original native home of the durian. A number of rare durian species (other than the familiar D. zibethinus of commerce) are found in Brunei and almost nowhere else on the planet. These rare and precious durian species are a great gift that Brunei can offer to the world. 

Rambutan. (Nephelium lappaceum) see illustration. In the months of July and August, fruit stalls and door-to-door vendors in many South East Asian cities present an extra colourful picture. The reason is the bunches of a strange looking oval fruit with bright crimson or yellow skin covered with short fleshy hairs - rambutan - is in season, and plentiful. The word comes from the Malay, 'rambut' meaning hair. Inside is a narrow seed covered with semitransparent flesh which is crisp and mainly sweet. A lot depends on the variety, but it is obvious that the best varieties have been chosen for propagation and export.

During the rambutan season, fruits are displayed in great heaps in roadside stalls called boutiques. This is the local term for small shops that sell vegetables, fruit and some of the necessities of life. At this time of year; itinerant vendors who carry their 'shop' on the pingo or flexible pole which is slung over one shoulder with a basket on either end, start carrying a different kind of basket. Not open baskets which display their wares, but large, egg-shaped baskets a bit wider at the bottom than at the top, woven from tender green coconut leaves. Every child knows without having to look inside that these baskets hold rambutans; and every child will run to ask the adult in the home to buy some of the fruit which is so popular.

Langsat. A somewhat less edible fruit of the family Meliaceae, the langsat, Lansium domesticum Corr., is also known as lansa, langseh, langsep, lanzon, lanzone, lansone, or kokosan, and by various other names in the dialects of the Old World tropics.  Long Bean. The long thin edible pod of the cowpea of southern Asia, which reaches up to a yard in length. Latin name Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis. Also called asparagus bean.