So I’m a vegan. I fully admit I care about animal rights and health food. If it’s cold out, I wear socks with my sandals – I’m that kind of vegan. Does my gleeful obsession with durian make sense now? I care a lot about where my food comes from and how it was grown. […]
Video | Tiger Eating Durian
Once Rob called the Singapore Zoo and asked if we could bring their tigers some durian. They laughed at him and told him that tigers were carnivorous. Silly Americans, thinking cats could eat fruit! But the truth is that tigers really do like durian. And here’s a video to prove it. I couldn’t embed the […]
Sharing Durian with an Elephant | Koh Chang, Thailand
Koh Chang literally means “Elephant Island.” It’s a token to the shape of the island, and not to the many elephant camps that have sprung up along with the surge in tourists. The elephants haven’t been there long, but the durian trees have. I rented a motorbike from my hotel on Kai Bae beach and […]
Durian Easter Bunnies
In my last post, I said I didn’t know whether or not bunnies eat durian. Well, a quick YouTube search cleared that one up. Bunnies LOVE durian. Check out these two bunnies in the videos below as they go crazy over eating durian. Hoppy Easter! Here’s an idea for what to do with leftover durian […]
Easter in Thailand’s Durian Capital
On Easter last year Rob and I had just arrived in Chanthaburi, Thailand, the site of the World Durian Festival. We were on the look out for durians, but kept finding bunny rabbits. I’m serious. Rabbits run amok in Chanthaburi. The furry little guys share real estate with durians throughout the old city on road […]
Sandakan Town Durian and a River Trip
This blog post has been a long time in coming! We didn’t mean to leave you all in the dark. For awhile, it seemed that we had nothing interesting to write about, and then we were too busy! We landed in Sabah, Borneo, to discover that durian season had not started yet! Oh noes! Erratic […]
What’s a Musang Anyway?
Rob and I were intrigued by the Musang King durian the first time we saw it. The amazing turmeric-yellow flesh of this durian is the most striking of any we’ve seen yet. It earned its fame as the King of Durian in 2010, when Stanley Ho, Macau’s “King of Gambling” and the 84th richest man […]
Feeding Elephants Durian
After nearly two months looking for the fabled elephant drop durian, Rob and I have started wondering if it really is just an urban (or jungle) legend. Why on earth would an elephant would swallow a durian whole? Wouldn’t the spikes bother their intestinal tract? Why wouldn’t an elephant just crack it open and slurp […]
Miss Loh’s Guesthouse
This gorgeous bay is only a short hike from Teluk Bahang. Until we reached Teluk Bahang, I thought Georgetown’s sprawl might extend all the way to Penang’s west coast. The city bus drove under towering seaside hotels, past malls and markets all the way through Batu Ferringi. This end-of-the-road, coastal village was different. Teluk […]
