{"id":834,"date":"2010-05-26T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/?p=834"},"modified":"2010-05-26T17:58:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:58:01","slug":"durian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Durian"},"content":{"rendered":"

We finally tried durian for the first time last night. The reputation of the fruit had been scaring us off. Finally, Stacy worked up the courage to buy some.<\/p>\n

Durian is a tropical fruit that looks very strange. From the outside, it’s like a football with spikes all around it.<\/p>\n

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Once you open it, the fruit is very sweet, and has the soft, custard-like consistency of a very ripe banana or a sugar apple.<\/p>\n

But the smell! Oh, my heavens, the smell.<\/p>\n

Durian is the stinkiest fruit in the world. It’s impossible to describe the smell. Combine rotten milk with no-so-fresh fish, then add freshly-chopped onions and jasmine flowers, and you get the general idea.<\/p>\n

There is a reason that Singapore has a law forbidding durians on the subway. I now understand and fully support this law.<\/p>\n

When you eat it, it isn’t bad. As I wrote, it’s very sweet. But the sweetness is combined with a sharp bite, sort of like eating raw onions.<\/p>\n

Ian and Evan each managed to take one bite, then declared that they had been there, done that, and had had enough.<\/p>\n

We wrapped up the scraps in double-thick plastic garbage bags, but the whole apartment still stinks of durian. I can’t wait until the garbage truck comes tonight. Usually the boys grumble about taking out the garbage, but I guess that they will be happy to get this out of the apartment as quickly as possible today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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