http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

The better 1/2 bought one of these cheap at Wollies this week for a $1.00, there normally expensive about $20/kg, this thing weight 5kg.

I encountered this fruit when my mother-in-law came to live with up in Altona Meadow a decade ago. I will never forget coming home from work one day to encounter a smell I couldn't believe was coming from inside the house. I couldn't even enter the kitchen area to have a dinner as the stetch just put me off. I then learnt that my better 1/2 decided to purchased one of these fruits cause it was a lot cheaper here than in China. The entire family, kids included vacated the house while my mother-in-law devoured this flesh that looked like Vanilla ice cream! " Gotta try some, it's delicious" she says. Trying hard not to hurt her feelings I just gave a polite no! The following week, she was at it again, but this time my better 1/2 was eating it and was trying to convinced me that it was very good, even the kids where having a go, blow me, HTF can you eat that s--t with that odour, and even Wollies and Coles sells them!

I had passed several more opportunities and eventually I caved in and took a spoonful. Well blow me, how does a fruit smell that bad to make you stay away, and has the ability to stop you for being hungry can taste this F--n good!

you only live once, and my motto is to try stuff that even beat the odds...

bTW, I like sushi as well!

Ahhhh durian - banned from many hotels in Thailand.

Smells like hell, tastes like heaven!!

Ahhhh durian - banned from many hotels in Thailand.

Smells like hell, tastes like heaven!!

You forgot shopping centres, you can buy them from super markets in Phuket but you are not allowed to eat them there, it upsets the tourists!

Smells like shitte, exactly like shitte . Tastes delicious

When they are cheap they are "ripe" in every sense of the word

Try enjoy a delicacy

Will have to try some one day.

 

Bizarre foods, Durian at the 3.00 minute mark.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o_1qillkJs

My wife is completely hooked on them. At least she retires to the laundry (with door closed) to carve them up, or eats them outside. I have never acquired the taste though I have tried them a few times.

I have eaten Durian in the Philippines a few times, and didn't really like it much.

I'm fortunate ( or not ) that my sense of smell is very poor and I could not smell the fruit at all. 

Durian is an extraordinary fruit.

 

A saying in Indonesia is  durian jatuh sarung naik, meaning "the durian falls and the sarong comes up"

I have never tried a durian. Must do so one day.

I have never tried a durian. Must do so one day.

If you can get past the initial sledge hammer assault on your sense of smell, it is one of those fruits (like many in SEA) that are different in a good way.

My wife loves the stuff and I'm all for it, as long as she loves the stuff outside in the back yard and downwind.............

Revolting stuff. I tried it once it was awful.

Haven't had the durian experience yet, but did try custard apples when I was in QLD once. Tasted good, and no strange smell.

I have been aware of Durian for a couple of decades but still cannot get past the smell.

I am not a fan

Awful smell that strongly permeates everywhere

Even the milder Durian icecream in Indonesia was sickly to me

Many of my Asian colleagues call it the king of fruit - give me a mango any day for that crown

never had durian, but have had jackfruit which is absolutely delicious and no smell !  not sure if its related to the durian or not  

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackfruit

 

Have eaten it several times in Indonesia. Went to special street stalls with locals to find it. Nice but I'd choose a really nice mango

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I almost gagged the first time I tried durian. Thought is was a slice of cheese cake with the pungent blue cheese odour and was horrified the moment it hit the buds!

I had it in Singapore. Thought I have to at Least give it a go. It was awful. I gave the remaining half to some locals who thought all their Christmases had come set once!

Yep, most hotels in Asia have a confiscate policy if you bring them in. I put them in the same category as stinky tofu which smells like roadkill on a 40C day, tastes alright though. :-)

Revolting stuff. I tried it once it was awful.

I tried it again recently in Vietnam and I have to change my opinion. It was actually really nice. Perhaps it's an acquired taste and people tell me you need to know how to pick a good one but I would certainly have it again.

we had some "jack fruit" after breakfast,

 

 

quite a delicately flavoured fruit by comparison, not very sweet, and my wife says it has some tones of banana about it.

 

its quite a large fruit, and while the green spikey external is thrown away the pods inside can eat, the seeds inside the pods can be used in a curry and are chestnut like.

 

from what I understand elephants in india knock these fruits off their trees. let them fall to the ground and leave them for a while in the sun...when they come back to them they tend to have fermented a tad and elephants then guzzle them down and because of the fermented alcoholic nature of them by that stage then wander off in a bit of in a drunken stooper thorugh the jungle

@al,

Yep tried that as well, the better 1/2 buys all sorts of fruit to try when they are on special, have no problems with that. When they are in season she gets persimmons. When people at work see me devour it they questioned what on earth am I eating , because they never tasted such offering but have seen them in shops. persimmons are real sweet when they are ripe at the right time:

yes our local market has persimons, literally like nectar ! a very delicious fruit.

 

my first encounter of it, was with wife an I wandering around our favourite garden in the hills and actually came across a persimon tree ! it was covered in what looked like ripe orange persimons...

 

curious why none of the birds had touched even one, still we grabbed a couple of the tree and tasting ...they tasted like carpet ! as a fruit they seem to have a bit of a time where even though they look ripe they arent and need to be left till just right to eat. I also wonder if there are some variotions of it that are just not for eating ? ie just ornamental.

In Malaysia, premium grade durians can be quite expensive and an intoxicating culinary experience..  ask for the 'Musang King' or translated - King Fox breed of durians.  Last time a mate took me to a stall off the street and it was interesting to watch the fruiterer using a machette to make small incisions into the skin of the durian to examine the quality of the fruit before serving to us.  Nevertheless that was an expensive experience too..2 durians costing us $90 ringgit = A$30..

, and my motto is to try stuff that even beat the odds...

 

 

even if it smells like shitt and looks like a pair of armadillos testicles ?

 

after those two initial encounters to your senses, anything is going to taste sweet isnt it ?

Edited October 23, 201411 yr by mello yello II