It is basic common sense that when we buy fruits or vegetables, we would want to check that the food items are generally in good order. Unless you really don’t care much about how consumable your purchases are, you’d want …
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In an ideal world, we would have found an alternative to cutting down trees for material, have peace all around the world and have a perfect durian in prestine condition with every purchase. But as everybody knows, the only thing …
In Malaysia, Dato is an official title conferred by a Sultan as recognition to a tribal chief. And if this title makes it’s onto the name of a durian, you’d implicitly know that you are on to something that shouldn’t …
If I have a durian tree sapling for every time that I come across a cultivar with a name that has left me scratching my head, I’d have my own 10 hectare plantation by now. I’d build my house on …
There’s something about learning more about the history of a durian you like which captures the imagination. This is the same for all types of products. For example if someone loves the L’Apparita Merlot from Castello di Ama, it makes …
1) Look for holes on the husk exterior. Holes are signs of worms. 2) Look at whether the bottom of the durian has cracked open. Open indicates it has been some time since harvested. 3) The inner part of the …
Some durians comes with very distinctive features that tell them apart from others. For example, Musang king has the bald star bottom, green skin 15 has green coloured skin, 604 with the knuckle-like pulps, and Khun poh with it’s breathtaking …
Even though each durian cultivar has unique attributes on it’s thorns that are consistent most of the time, there can sometimes still be outliers are don’t follow the norm. For example, durian IOI and red prawn can usually be identified …
If you care enough about durians to do a little academic research into it, you’d inevitably find that a number of varieties have numeric names that have no bearing to it’s official registration number at all. The registration number actually …
