Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward
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#2Exotic fruits have been interesting to me in a while, and I hope to get my hands on some in my own country. For others interested, there's a channel which is all about exotic fruits and foods in general (including Thai ones), and his videos are always extremely informative and conscious[0].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChsbD6Clp-ZPqKwXJR3V7DQ
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#3On a recent trip to Bangkok it was often hard to tell whether one was approaching an actual open sewer or just a durian stall.
Sad I missed the fruit market though, I bet they have a massive variety of banana cultivars. I tried a couple I'd never had before when over there.
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#5On a recent trip to Bangkok it was often hard to tell whether one was approaching an actual open sewer or just a durian stall. Sad I missed the fruit market though, I bet they have a massive variety of banana cultivars. I tried a couple I'd never had before when over there.
I'm curious is aversion to durian is at least somewhat genetic, similar to cilantro and broccoli.
I spent 6 weeks traveling around Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam), including several days in Bangkok.
I ate a metric ton of durian, jackfruit (my favourite), mangostein, lychie, and so forth.
I never noted any negative durian odour, and I just assumed that "it must always be fresh in Southeast Asia", and any reports are based on stale or older fruit after it's travelled internationally...
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#6On a recent trip to Bangkok it was often hard to tell whether one was approaching an actual open sewer or just a durian stall. Sad I missed the fruit market though, I bet they have a massive variety of banana cultivars. I tried a couple I'd never had before when over there.
I'm curious is aversion to durian is at least somewhat genetic, similar to cilantro and broccoli. I spent 6 weeks traveling around Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam), including several days in Bangkok. I ate a metric ton of durian, jackfruit (my favourite), mangostein, lychie, and so forth. I never noted any negative durian odour, and I just assumed that "it must always be fresh in Southeast Asia", an…
After reading the article I thought the same thing. People who hate cilantro tend to absolutely hate even the thought of it.
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#7On a recent trip to Bangkok it was often hard to tell whether one was approaching an actual open sewer or just a durian stall. Sad I missed the fruit market though, I bet they have a massive variety of banana cultivars. I tried a couple I'd never had before when over there.
I'm curious is aversion to durian is at least somewhat genetic, similar to cilantro and broccoli. I spent 6 weeks traveling around Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam), including several days in Bangkok. I ate a metric ton of durian, jackfruit (my favourite), mangostein, lychie, and so forth. I never noted any negative durian odour, and I just assumed that "it must always be fresh in Southeast Asia", an…
I think Durian hate is mostly memetic. Still, it is a very strong flavour, so even if you like it, it's easy to get overwhelmed by it. It doesn't have the easy eatability of mangosteen or lychee. And lord help you if you let out even a small burp hours after eating it...
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#8On a recent trip to Bangkok it was often hard to tell whether one was approaching an actual open sewer or just a durian stall. Sad I missed the fruit market though, I bet they have a massive variety of banana cultivars. I tried a couple I'd never had before when over there.
I'm curious is aversion to durian is at least somewhat genetic, similar to cilantro and broccoli. I spent 6 weeks traveling around Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam), including several days in Bangkok. I ate a metric ton of durian, jackfruit (my favourite), mangostein, lychie, and so forth. I never noted any negative durian odour, and I just assumed that "it must always be fresh in Southeast Asia", an…
Nope, not in my case at least, fresh and on-location it utterly stinks to my nose.
This can't be uncommon, given the prevalence of rules against Durian consumption in enclosed public spaces in many places in the far east.
Love me some mangostein, lychie, rambutan or snake-fruit though.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious is aversion to durian is at least somewhat genetic, similar to cilantro and broccoli. I spent 6 weeks traveling around Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam), including several days in Bangkok. I ate a metric ton of durian, jackfruit (my favourite), mangostein, lychie, and so forth. I never noted any negative durian odour, and I just assumed that "it must always be fresh in Southeast Asia", an…
I think Durian hate is mostly memetic. Still, it is a very strong flavour, so even if you like it, it's easy to get overwhelmed by it. It doesn't have the easy eatability of mangosteen or lychee. And lord help you if you let out even a small burp hours after eating it...
Seriously no, I have been repulsed by the stink of durian stalls before even knowing they were there. This is not a memetic reaction.
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#10Is work being done to develop easy to peel, low seed count cultivars of various exotic fruits like these? I can only imagine that their consumptive experience is similar to what Native Americans dealt with when they first encountered bananas tens of thousands of years ago.