Weird Durian, Only in Indonesia

[herbalriver]

Comments

[adameros]

If you can get past the smell, it's pretty tasty.

[mranon_y_mous]

Mileage may very. The host of Bizzare food hated the taste of durians and he has eaten rotted meat and packed in fat before. He said it tasted like a rotten onion.

[schonste]

the host of bizarre foods is a pussy. Anthony Bourdain eats durians for pleasure.

[lordxyyndragon]

Anthony Bourdain is my culinary hero, I wouldn't be caught in the same room with some of the stuff he eats

[madsqueeble]

THIS.

Also, you don't troll in a Penang night market asking for people who hate durians and not stopping till you find one. 'Tis like walking into a bar and asking "SO WHO DOESN'T LIKE ALCOHOL? :DDDDDD"

[mona_noke]

hahah it's Andrew Zimmern's "arch nemesis" as he calls it :)

[akirashima]

from the taste he described he got a bad one. the rotten onion taste is one of the flavours it gets when it has gone off. and it is rather puke worthy. however fresh good durian. may be stinky but it is heaven.

[mranon_y_mous]

I did not know that. That's sort of like how overcooked, giant stalks of asparagus made me hate the stuff for years. Now I love them. :)

[akirashima]

heh Like how locally to me everyone always used to cook spinach til it was this green foul smelling slime with vinegar and pepper. i despised spinach. then one day i went to some steak place with a big salad bar. I had been working outside all day in hot sun so i got salad. there were these little green leaves next to the iceberg lettuce. so i figured they were just some sort of leaf lettuce and got them since the other lettuce seemed to have had better days. started munching on them and was amazed at the taste and joy joy feeling of all the replenishing minerals and stuff i had lost during the day. then someone with me told me they were spinach. I was quite amazed and taken aback and told them i only knew ot as the slime everyone had when i was growing up and had never seen it grown before so for a time i thought it was some sort of seaweed or something. now it is my favorite green for salads. heck i eat in on burgers occasionally

[rocza]

The host of bizarre foods has also gotten details of just about everything wrong on every episode he's done on an area I've been to. Watching his episode on Alaska was actually an exercise in patient and pain (and the rest of my family watched from another room, shouting at the TV, his information - even his basic pronunciation, was so wrong).

[diffuse]

yeah, he also just acts like a dumbshit in general.