People who chase durian by name tend to memorize the famous clones first, the Musang King and the Monthong, then skip straight past the quiet ones.
Ask ten durian sellers to explain the difference between Black Pearl and Black Gold, and you may get eleven answers. Both are rare, dark-fleshed, premium
Every exotic grower in Southern California eventually gets asked about durian, usually by someone who tried it once on a trip to Bangkok and either loved
You cannot pack durian so it smells like nothing. Anyone who promises that has never opened a bag that leaked in a hot car. What you can do is contain
The thorns give D14 away before the flesh does. They are big and hooked, and I have the scars to prove this durian does not want to be opened casually.
Freeze-dried durian is the version of the king that fits in a backpack. It weighs almost nothing and keeps for months on a shelf instead of hours in a fridge.
Walk through any night market in Penang or Bangkok between June and August, and one stall pulls the longest line. You smell it before you see it, a sweet
You spot a D10 by its green cap, and you lose one to its habit of splitting before you are ready. A ripe fruit cracked open on the branch in my greenhouse
People ask me this at every tasting, expecting a one-word answer, and I have learned to smile before I ruin it for them. The honest reply to which country
The first D11 that dropped in my greenhouse fooled me. No stench rolled out to announce it, so I found the fruit sitting on the floor by sight rather than