Brunei’s Gadong Night Market is one of the most reliable places for a one-hit Borneo durian spree. It’s a huge market, with a wealthy clientele thanks to Brunei’s petroleum industry and strong currency, and durians are shipped in from all over Malaysia. The magic of this is that at Gadong Night Market, you can get […]
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Brunei Durian Varieties at Gerai Pengkalan Batu
Everybody forgets Brunei Durian, but you shouldn’t. This small nation is prime Durian Country, with some of the best Durio diversity and the best preserved forests you’ll find in Borneo. Few tourists venture outside of Brunei’s one and only city, Bandar Seri Begawan, and so that’s what the tourist books feature — a small, quiet, pretty […]
Durio Dulcis: Fire Durian at Simpang Palas | Sarawak
Simon spotted the piles of bright red Durio dulcis before we’d even turned off the main road running from Limbang, Sarawak to the border with Brunei. They were just sitting by the road in piles of four next to all the other durians — the orange-fleshed Durio graveolens and waxy yellow Durio kutejensis and the […]
The 10 Best Durian of 2017 – My Year in Review
When I tell you where I ate my 10 best durians of the year, I’m telling you a story about me. “Best durian” are deeply personal. They’re where I was and what I was doing and what was important to me when I ate them. This post, The 10 Best Durian of 2017 is essentially […]
Kahwin Durian at Gadong Night Market Brunei (Pasar Malam Gadong) | Brunei
NOTE: The Gadong Night Market has changed. See the updated post here. By 5 PM downtown Bandar Segi Begawan, Brunei, is quiet. The small daytime market has packed up. The sun is dipping low over the river, giving the golden dome of the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque a sort of halo effect that makes the […]
Ferry Layover at Labuan Durian Market | Kota Kinabalu to Brunei By Boat
Labuan is not Sabah. It’s its own Malaysian territory 8 km off the coast of Sabah that comprises a main island and a tiny archipelago. From Kota Kinabalu it’s about a three hour ferry journey, and after a short layover in Labuan you can ferry onward to Brunei for a total travel time of about […]
Brunei Durian
Although it looks like a blip on the map of Borneo, Brunei is not as tiny as you might think. At over 2,000 square miles, it doesn’t even make top 15 of the world’s smallest countries. Nevertheless, Rob and I thought it was one country we could miss. It’s surrounded on three sides by Sarawak, […]
