For local Asian, the seasonal tropical climate fruit flesh is described as addictive, sweet, succulent, aromatic, flavourful and soft in texture despite of it spiky thorny shell, Durian is well-known to most part of the world.
However, for some part of the world especially the Western world, it will be described as smelly foul and unappealing taste in the mouth. Despite that, it is famously dubbed as ‘The King of Fruit’, probably because of the nature of it thorny big shell and the title might be the cause for the hefty price tag.
Minimum of USD10 per Kilo is for standard grade of the King fruit which is weight with the inedible spiky shell.
You can find the fruit almost everywhere in Kuala Lumpur. The photo above was taken from the infamous street for tourists, Jalan Alor Bukit Bintang.
Malaysia other tropical fruits
Have you tried one of it? Top left: Rambutan, manggo, dragon fruit, local guava, langsat and jambu.
Salena Pail 