I go back to the Sabah Agriculture Park in Tenom every year. It’s one of my favorite places on Planet Earth. Where else can you find 400 species of rare tropical fruit trees, all in one place, without tromping through the mosquito swamps for weeks to find them? Only here, in this beautifully manicured lawn […]
DurianBB, the New Hipster Kota Kinabalu Durian Cafe
The Durian scene is changing. It’s like this: Once upon a time, if you wanted a cup of coffee in Malaysia, you went to Uncle’s kopitiam with the ceiling fans and weird black streaks on the walls and overly bright red plates piled high with otherworldly succulent noodles. But now, if you want a cup […]
Malaysia 2019 Durian Season Guide
Oops. It’s already May, and if it were any other normal durian year, durians would be dropping in Malaysia and I’d be apologizing to all you durian munchers for being so tardy in releasing the Malaysia 2019 Durian Guide. Luckily durians are late this year too. Keep scrolling down to see lists of recommended durian […]
Durio kinabaluensis (Tupoloh) at Pasar Durian Ranau
“This was definitely NOT here two weeks ago,” Simon said emphatically. It was as if the stretch of durian stalls, the parking lot filled with open-bed trucks loading and unloading durian, had appeared overnight. Maybe the Durio kinabaluensis had appeared just for us. Finding Pasar Durian Ranau We were on our way to the Big […]
Biggest Durio Oxleyanus at the Keningau Night Market
I didn’t know Durio oxleyanus could get that much bigger than a softball until I saw it at the Keningau Night Market. The wild durians with curly green thorns were overgrown into volleyball giants. Keningau’s Night Market was already chock full of fruity surprises, with several other jungle durians and an assortment of pretty rare […]
Sipitang Durian Lover’s Guide | Sabah, Borneo
For me, there was a Before Sipitang, and there was After Sipitang. Because Sipitang was the first place I experienced a real diversity of wild fruits I didn’t have a name for and didn’t even know how to look up, should I have had access to the internet. Which I didn’t, because I didn’t have […]
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 […]
Kota Kinabalu Durian Street in Sabah, Malaysia
You know you’ve come to a good place when you ask for directions to the Central Market, and the answer is “Just across from Durian Street.” And they don’t mean just a street named durian, because Rob and I have found those too. They mean an actual legitimate street lined with durian vendors. If you […]
Pink Durian at Kota Kinabalu’s Central Market | Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Like most wet markets in Southeast Asia, Kota Kinabalu’s Central Market is most active in the morning and has more or less closed up shop by sundown. That’s when the nearby night market takes over. But on the late afternoon that Jess and I were walking by on our way to Kota Kinabalu’s Durian Street […]
