“I guess you’ve seen the YouTube video,” Scott said to me as he settled into his chair, re-adjusting the black, red and white plaid sarong wrapped around his waist. In the kitchen Ta fussed with blender. I acknowledged that I had seen the video. My friend Durian Darrick sent it to me a few months […]
Kampot Durian
Kampot is a province and a small town in Cambodia’s far south, near the Thai Sea and only a few kilometers from the Vietnamese border. It’s famous for growing black pepper, being one of the Khmer Rouge’s last strongholds, and producing a lot of durian for export to Vietnam. The city is a popular weekend […]
Java Durian Farmers
Durian sprouts at Sapto’s farm We met Sapto Argo at the durian festival. We exchanged numbers, and the night before we had planned to leave Java, he gave us a call and offered to take us on a durian tour of his hometown, Ambarawa. Ambarawa is a small town set high in the mountains of […]
