My 'King Of Fruits'

I've been eating a lot of durian past 2 weeks. This has broken my past 10 years record of eating durian. Due to the itch skin problem, I have been suffering from having only very little durian or sometime forcing myself not to take any. If you too a durian lover, you will know how suffer I'm to see people enjoying it while I could only smell it..... :(

This durian season really kills me. I'm so tempted to eat and eat. Totally forget about the itchness and enjoyed fully the joyful of durian moment. Hubby also never stopped me from eating durian this time, maybe he forgotten to do so..... he he I just pretended nothing happen.

We got many free durian from my colleague, Wee this year. How can I reject it! I feel so grateful to have her as my F.O.C durian supplier. Yesterday, my BIL took another 2 durians for us, it's from Batang Kali, species unknown. Will enjoy it tonight......

'Red scrimp' durian has no flesh in the middle when you open up. The flesh is more orangey as compared to normal species while the aroma smell is also stronger.

P/S : Kesian Wee, she doesn't like durian at all and doesn't even can stand the smell yet she got to bring it over for us so many times. Thank you so much!

Durian Farm

I'm a durian lover. During our childhood, we used to eat durian day and night when the season started. Have you ever try "durian rice"? Em.....the taste still fresh in my memory. I remember that time, D24 is the best durian that you can find. But today there are lots more good durian out there. Most of it was mixed result with seed from durian trees. For instance, durian cultivars like 'red shrimp' and 'bamboo leg' are those top species with superior quality of flesh and of course it fetch higher prices in market .

This was the first time I've been so close to durian tree. All the while I only managed to sight it from far (there are few durian trees along the Cheras Kajang highway) and never got chance to stand close to it. So on last Saturday, I requested my colleague (Ms.Wee and her 'leng cai' hubby) to bring us to her's cousin brother durian farm located at Broga.

Broga is a very small town near Semenyih. There are a lot of durian farms around. Many outsiders come all the way to Broga for durian, hill climbing and also to visit and pai-pai 'Dato Shek Temple'. Ever since the relocation of Nottingham University to Broga, it has brought up the livelihood of the town.

Father and Mum were taking risk standing under durian tree..........better watch out.


These 2 little gals were glad to be there too.

Durians hanging on the branch. When it's going to drop??

Besides durian tree, I have the pleasure to see rubber tree too. Mother even commented the rubber tapping skills was not as good as hers. This can be seen from the incised tree. The tapped vessel was very rough.

Latex was being collected into a small bucket.

To me, it has been a fruitful visit. Of course we will not go back with 2 empty hands. My car was full of durian. Beside bringing back our order of 'red shrimp', we were also brought back some F.O.C durian from Wee & Steve. Thanks a lot!

tesa Last Durian Party

tesa has been organizing durian party since past 2 years. We had another one last Friday, this will be the last durian party organized by tesa before her shutting down. Everyone just put aside the sadness of the company future and enjoyed the party so much.

Beside 150pcs of durian, there were mangoesteen, rambutan and langsat, each 50kg. We have 2 voluntarily men to open the durian for everyone there. Pity them to be the first one to open the durian but the last to taste it..... this is tesa spirit. We finished everything in an hour and everyone shown a thumb up for it.

Em..... yummy! D24 & 101.

We gotta miss the party next year.