Edit: This post was originally published on April 11, 2012, on our first year of Year of the Durian. Dr. Songpol retired from his position at the Chanthaburi Horticultural Resarch Station in 2018. The controversy that erupted when Dr. Songpol Somsri introduced the Odorless Durian was not lost on Western media. If his name sounds familiar […]
Bringing Durian Home
Both romanticized and demonized in Hollywood, the American South is generally a quiet, quaint region with beautiful architecture, big manicured lawns, and a culture all it’s own.”Yes” and “no” are always paired with “sir” or “ma’am”, and everything is just darling. Except possibly, durian. We’d left Southeast Asia for the Southeast of the United States, […]
The End (Sort Of)
It’s the end of 2012, and the Year of the Durian has officially come to a close. One year, 12 months, 52 weeks and 366 days (it was a leap year!) of durian all the time. Will my brain ever stop revolving around durian? I secretly hope not, because I love durian. It was a […]
Our Very Last Malaysian Durian of 2012
Year of the Durian is counting down. Since we started on January 1st, we officially end on December 31st at midnight. You better believe we’ll be eating durian! After our durian vacation at Bao Sheng’s Durian Villas in Penang, we had four days to kick it in Kuala Lumpur and do some Christmas shopping, as […]
Weekend at the Durian Villas
For the first time in sixty years, Penang had a second durian season this November-December. How lucky are we? We visited Penang last June and were really impressed with the durian, particularly Bao Sheng’s numbingly delicious Red Prawn, which stuck in our minds as possibly the very best durian of the year. Five […]
Tenom Durian Species at the Agricultural Park and Research Center
December is nearly halfway gone! Not only is the end of the world coming, but the closing of our Year of the Durian. Eleven and a half months down the durian road, we’re winding down our adventures and patching up the missing links in our collection of durians and durians eaten. Over the weekend we […]
Finding Peace in Malaysia
The thing I didn’t mention about Kalimantan is that while we were still in Putussibau I got the dreaded traveler’s stomach woes. After eleven months of constant travel, it had to happen sometime. Dead-ended in Lanjak with no way to see if email responses had turned up any new leads, we decided to skip across […]
Durian Kura Kura Found
Cauliflory is a botanical term that refers to plants that flower and fruit from the trunk, woody structures, and roots rather than from new growth. This seems bizarre, but there are actually quite a number of edible fruits that grow this way. Most of them are just as exotic as the concept seems to indicate, […]
Red Jungle Durian (D. Dulcis) with the Ibans | Kalimantan
Durio dulcis is one of the rarest durian species. With it’s bright red shell, it’s the sweetest of the durians (as suggested by it’s Latin name) but isn’t cultivated and is only found in the highland jungles of interior Borneo, where it is becoming increasingly more scarce due to illegal logging. It’s even listed on […]
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