Many years ago, durians were only sold whole. People typically walk into a durian store, grab what they want, pay for it, then bring the hazardous green fruit back home and open it themselves. This whole process actually presents a …
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In the world of Malaysian durians, the king of fruits can generally be grouped into two categories of registered cultivars and kampung durians. Registered cultivars refers to the types of durians that has been registered with the Malaysian agriculture authority, …
Anyone just entering the world of durians won’t take long to discover the sheer number of different types of durians available in the market. But what’s probably more perplexing are the odd and funny names that get attached to them. …
With the assumption that the D# label that tags along with a durian type is supposed to be a register number with MARDI, and that the lower the number supposedly means an earlier registration date, a durian that carries the …
For any obsessive durian chaser who has suffered for months of restlessness due to the off-season, he or she would start to feel a rumble of anticipation as the final week of April arrives. Because it signals the arrival of …
It’s not unheard of to find out that some of the most popular durian cultivars today were the offsprings of other durians. Some of these legendary stories include green skin 15 sprouting to life from a chanee seed, or even …
Most durians come with a very distinctive feature even though that feature might not be unique to them. But it is enough to make up part of the special attributes that a cultivar identifies with. For example, black thorn is …
If you have just entered the world of durians, what led you here might have been the guilt-ridden seductive taste of musang kings. After all, musang king currently rules the land in Malaysia and Singapore by virtue of it’s incredibly …
It won’t take long for anyone beginning their durian journey to realise that the names that different cultivars take up can be very amusing. These fun and catchy names serve as a great representation of how everyone from farmers to …
