Durian: The Marmite of Fruit

Hello again gentle reader, welcome back. A few months ago while we were still in Latvia, Lena and I watched a video blog posted by a Russian couple who lived in Guangzhou about a fruit called a durian.

I had never even heard of the fruit which as you can see resembles a very large horse chestnut.
The one thing that came across in the video was how divisive it was. The Russian couple and their children seemed to agree that it had a pleasent taste but the smell of the fruit was terrible.

Suitably intrigued by what many people in Asia call "The King of Fruit" we told ourselves that when we got to China we would try it.

Durian has such a pungeant odour that many hotels have banned it.

After looking at it several times and not buying the fruit we finally tonight took the plunge with some durian flavoured wafer biscuits.

Durian Wafers

I'm glad we bought a small packet.

They really stank and I mean stank. Others have likened the smell to raw sewage. I thought it smelled like a babies nappy that had been filled with skunk fur and set on fire. Truly revolting smell. I actually bit one and the taste was not that bad.

Millions of people love durian. Many dont. There is no middle ground.
It truly is the Marmite of fruit.

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