Asians like to serve fruit as a dessert. Particularly melons. Which is TERRIBLE food combining! I don't eat melons except on an empty stomach! So it would be a bummer when they would whip out the fruit at the end of the meal. I'd think, if only that had been around BEFORE the meal! And it can seem a little rude to not touch the fruit! Sometimes I'd nibble a little on the pineapple and papaya, if it seemed really ripe.

I told this lady who was always tired after lunch to stop eating fruit for dessert. She looked at me like I was crazy, but later she told me that it had helped a lot, and thanked me! yahoo!