Durian: love it or hate it?

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

<-- Durian lover
Try durian dodol sometime

 

[AMCRambler]

GF and I saw them for sale at the supermarket. So we decided to try it after seeing it on Bizarre Food. It was one food that Andrew Zimmern could NOT eat while he could on all other disgusting food. And Durian is a fruit!

How bad can it be? It IS just a fruit. The putrid smell quickly filled the kitchen as soon as we cracked it open. The edible innards DO look like animal innards. It's slimey, slippery, and has a repulsive texture.

It looks, smells, and feels just like an rotten organ meat.

So we're cringing and laughing. GF dared me to go first, so I put a fingerful of the goop in my mouth. It's surprisingly sweet at first. But then it was quickly masked by the overwhelming senses of putrid sourness, vile aftertaste, and indescribable rotting scent that all violated my mouth, nose, and throat, all up and down.

We couldn't finish it, but recognized how one could like it. If you're used to the smell- just like westerners with cheese, the undeniable sweetness pretty good.

We thought we were done with it. HELL NO. SURPRISE SON. For the next 6-8 hours, both of us kept burping. And with every burp came with all that familiar vile taste, making us relive the haunting experience every half hour or so.

Blech.

Later, I told my Chinese roommate about the story. His eyes got widened and was disappointed we threw them way.

Those things are nasty. It smells like a rotted onion that was grown in an elephants ass.

 

[Northern Lawn]

I don't think you can get good properly ripe durians in north america. You basically have to be in Tailand. I listen to a channel called Durian Rider on you tube, i think he said you're not supposed to eat the ones that were frozen.

When they are properly ripe, they fall off the tree then you wait till they peel open a bit. If they taste anything like onions they are over ripe or not ripe enough, i forget.

Myself they look absolutely disgusting, like an Alien autopsy.

 

[Fausto]

Had it a few times. I like it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to find it.