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Once you actually taste and smell a ripe durian, the Southeast Asian fruit best known for its penetrating odor, you will understand what all the fuss is about—and why it’s banned from some public ...
The durian, a spiky fruit that grows across Southeast Asia, has a polarizing reputation for its pungent odor and strong taste ...
JOHOR/SINGAPORE: Like most monarchs, the king of fruit resides in a lush, sprawling estate, tended to by a fleet of courtiers ...
A young couple got hooked on durians after one life-changing bite in 2009. And after two years of tracking the stinky sweet fruit through Southeast Asia, they've become experts on durian tourism.
Australia has a fledgling durian industry, though most of the trees, imported from Indonesia and Malaysia, produce fruit for the domestic market rather than export. What Is Rambutan and How to Eat ...
Purists Sniff As Stink-Free Durian Fruit Seeks A Fan Base : ... about 20,000 sapling trees which Songpol has sold to farmers around Thailand will start bearing sizeable crops by 2013 or 2014, ...
Clockwise from top, at a farm owned by Tan Eow Chong, his son Tan Chee Keat climbs a tree to tie a Musang King durian and keep the fruit from dropping prematurely; a freshly dropped durian, whose ...
At the same time it frames the durian tree as a canny being, as it never allows falling fruit to harm the vulnerable humans spreading its seeds on the ground below. US poet Sally Wen Mao attends ...
A highly value-intensive fruit, durian might be considered the caviar of all fruits, ... These days, few of us must scale 40-plus-foot trees or wait beneath one for the 7-pound spiked ...
Durian fruit hangs from a tree. Courtesy of Lindsay Gasik Since the couple departed for Asia in 2012 to pursue durians nearly full-time, they've eaten the fruit in 13 countries, including Malaysia, ...