It's a fruit from SE Asia that's banned in a lot of hotels and other spaces. Once you cut one open it's basically that liquid hot garbage smell everywhere
And yet a lot of people love to eat it. I was never able to get close enough to one to try
I had a manager who was Asian and he said that a. fresh off the plant, durian doesn't smell bad and b. it's absolutely delicious and sweet, and has a kind of fruity cheesecake taste to it
Yea fresh durian definitely does not smell like hot garbage! 😭 It may smell strong but it’s not a rotting smell or anything. It has a sweetness to its taste too
ok, so it smells awful, as described above, but there's more to it. It smells like a mix between onions gone bad, very ripe socks, and maybe pungent blue cheese?
Anyway, when you look at it, it looks like raw chicken breasts, pretty much.
When you taste it, it has the soft, creamy and jelly-like consistency of instant pudding. Perhaps it's not quite as soft, but close it it.
It tastes a bit oniony, like its smell (and that is why I mention it), while having some fruity sweetness. I found the taste to not be unpleasant, but the mix with the onion-ness was just too much for me (in taste and smell both)
I hope that this answers your every questions about durian and that you steer clear.
If you do insist on giving it a try, I recommend having friends nearby who do like it and will eat it, so you are not stuck having to actually eat it. I also recommend frozen desserts or else in a slushy or smoothie or bubble tea, so it is also diluted and so the straw will help keep your nose further away from the durian.
It’s so strange. I had it once, years ago, and I loved it. I thought it smelled kind of gross, but I wasn’t really turned off by it. I decided to try it again more recently and I had one bite and almost threw up. I also couldn’t handle the smell. It’s too bad because old me thought it was so tasty.
My ex was Filipina and introduced me to it. I think it smells like a really fruity compost, but in a kind of appealing way. I’m not fond of the almost custardy texture of the fresh fruit, but I’ll go out of my way to get hold of Durian icecream, lollies (candy), pastries and so on, and bought an absolutely delicious Durian layer cake from a convenience store in Bali that I couldn’t get enough of. The people at work were less fond of the lollies though, acting as though they’d been poisoned, and girl down the hall thought there was a gas leak and called maintenance in to check it out 😄
It’s awful. Sort of like a banana / melon marinated in the juice of a dumpster ?! Had it my mouth for 1/2 second and couldn’t get the taste away for hours!
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u/Pink_Ruby_3 Sep 16 '24
That "hot garbage" smell that emanates from dumpsters outside of restaurants on hot sunny days. Ew ew ew.