Ok, I'll make my return with, what I think, most fascinating fruit. It's not healthy, load of carbs from large amount of sugar and fats, strong odor. Some say its odor is so unpleasant and unbearable, some say it's tasty smelly. After you eat durian, its odor can still with you for half a day. People can tell you've eaten it when you burp hehe....
Durian normally comes out from May to Aug or probably until late Sep. In Thailand, it comes with 2 famous varieties, Chanee (gibbon in English) and Monthong (golden pillow, let's see if you can sleep on it.) Chanee is more yellowish, less flesh and less sweet than Monthong. Monthong is more popular because it's sweeter, more flesh and creamer taste. The one I tried (on May, don't worry, pictures don't stale) was Monthong.
Look! What a lovely golden pillow, try to blow it to your friends. As you can see, you must be very highly skill to crack it down. The thorns can be extremely lethal. So don't mess with durian sellers while you're in Thailand. Normally, the seller cracks its shell and put its flesh into a foam box for you. But as for this one, I asked her just to rip the shell, so I can took the pictures of a whole. See how sacrifice I was just to make this blog :p
This is what you'll see after you crack it down. The yellowish flesh is what we're going to eat. After a few crack, with pre-ripped from the seller (thank you, seller, otherwise you'd see yellow flesh with my blood stained around) I torn it down apart ha!
I was going to save half of it for the next day, but I could not resist..... ended up eating them all. Need some exercise to blow up calories.Ah! and in Thailand, we believe that durian must not be eaten with alcohol. Rumor is that it can be fatal. I never dare to try. Finally, what's healthy about durian? Well, no, we've been told that people with obesity and high blood pressure should avoid durian. Just solely personal pleasure though!!
See what's left......
