Passionfruit, Mangosteen, Durian
Durian you fools! King of fruit, a divine and complex flavour.
Toffee and onion and sour cream and mango and banana and custard and pineapple all dance together. Ah durian, the only fruit worth travelling for to eat fresh off the tree.
Durian my beloved.
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I don’t count durian among fruit. In my head it clusters with creamy ripening cheeses.
ah but it is which is the delightful magic. A fruit with all the complexity of a good cheese and none of the horror. Woven from air with sunlight and gifted freely.
What a generous thing the durian! Mana from heaven.
It’s hard to compare apples and mangos, but if we’re gonna consider favorite tropical fruits, I friggin love fresh mangosteen. It’s like a little fruity Bob-bom. Smooth and silky texture, creamy sweet flesh and just fantastic. They don’t seem to travel well, unfortunately.
Or fresh pineapple.
I had fresh pineapple off a farmer’s cart in the tropics two decades back. Afterward, I couldn’t eat pineapple in the US for almost three years. It was so much better than the canned or grocery-store stuff there was just no comparison.
All of them.
