Durian Fruit in Thailand 🇹🇭- Trying 8 Different Varieties of the World’s Best Fruit!!

Durian fruit ทุเรียน - Since the first time I tasted durian in 2009 in Malaysia, it was love at first taste - I fell in love with the beautiful sweet and creamy texture of the Durian - the King of Fruits. Along with being by far the coolest looking and spiky fruit in the world, the flesh is unlike any thing else in the world. And there are countless varieties of durian - in Thailand alone there something like 200 - 300. I prefer the stronger tasting durians, like in Malaysia and Indonesia, and Southern Thailand - bitter, sweet, and complex.

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Since we’re at home in Bangkok, Thailand, and it’s durian season in Thailand, my wife Ying went on a durian ordering spree, I think we had at least 15 durians delivered by mail to our house. So I decided to make a video testing all eight of these different Thai durian varieties - each different and unique in shape and feel.

Here are the Thai durians we tried:

Puang Manee Jiw พวงมณีจิ๋ว
Puang Manee พวงมณี
Mon Thong หมอนทอง
Kradum กระดุม
Chanee ชะนี
Kob Chai Nam กบชายน้ำ
Nok Yib นกหยิบ
Kan Yao ก้านยาว

Hard to say which one was my favorite, but I loved the Kradum กระดุม and the Puang Manee พวงมณี.

Thank you for watching, and hope you love eating durian fruit as much as I do!

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[zalz]

So I just bought my first Durian. I’m in Texas by the way. The first smell from it was a faint melon like sweet smell that I thought was wonderful. Going home it did have a bit more of a wafting smell like that of a mild fart & gym socks but nothing really bothersome, at least to me. It never lost that sweet smell though. When I opened it, it smelled the same to me & the fruit was nice & soft. The taste was unique but not bad. Something I could definitely get used to. It tasted like lightly sweet honeydew melon with a hint of vanilla, a hint of avocado with a mellow oniony taste. Maybe some people are just more sensitive to these smells but me, I’m just fine with durian. I think they ought to go ahead & sell it in regular grocery stores. Durian is definitely a fruit that seems extremely versatile & could be used in sweet or savory dishes.

[getsmartwithbrettandcenon]

As a Durian Farmer I say thank you for spreading the greatness of Durian to western audiences!

[joelzimmerman]

For me the land of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia are the place where heaven of durian were exists

Thank God this King of fruit is a gift to us durian lovers

[ChathuNishadi]

Durian is heavenly delicious. I can’t imagine any food on earth tastier than durian

[imonedesign]

The first thing I'm going to do after quarantine is to travel to Thailand! amazing country, food and people 😃

[alisonkempster]

For those of you who can't stand the smell of durian but want to enjoy it, IT IS POSSIBLE -- but the circumstances are a little difficult to arrange!

I tried durian on a couple of trips to Thailand. Each time I was nearly physically ill because of the overpowering, utterly-nauseating smell - which is so bad for the circa 50% of people who can't stand it, that it is enough to make you (sorry) be actually sick if you eat it. If you've managed to swallow some, don't think you're out of the woods - the smell will come back up out of your stomach and it's even worse!

I was determined to enjoy this fruit! It wasn't going to get the better of me! I want to try - and enjoy - every culture's foods.

Solution: One year I temporarily lost my sense of smell because of a bad case of the flu. Opportunity! As soon as I was sufficiently recovered to stagger out of bed, I went straight to Chinatown (Thank goodness it was durian season!) and bought fresh durian. I was able to eat a whole segment! (I started VERY cautiously!) The texture was wonderful! Mark's descriptions of texture and taste are very articulate - and accurate, in my experience. It was really filling - like eating two huge bananas - with a very warming sensation in the stomach similar to when you've had a big, very spicy, meal. It would have been a Mon Thong (it's pretty much the only durian available in London.) It tasted of something like banana and custard, with - near the point of the fruit where each segment is attached - a slight bitter taste. The warming, filling sensation was excellent. DON'T EAT TOO MUCH. I did the next year and it gave me a really bad stomach ache in the evening!

So, two years in a row when I had flu with a loss of smell, I rushed to eat durian while I could without smelling it! After that, I was able to ENJOY eating it with my sense of smell fully working! I absolutely love it and now, I even love the smell - and it doesn't have the nauseating effect on me in the slightest... but my husband won't permit it in the house! In London, I was made to stand outside on the balcony - with the door firmly closed! (He actually locked me out! :))

NB: As a beginner, holding my nose didn't stop the stomach-churning smell. The only way I succeeded was having actually LOST my sense of smell. You could try (I haven't done this) eating some extremely strong mints and then immediately trying durian. That might work but, only have a tiny amount if you are in the 50% of people who can't stand the smell, or it could produce a very nasty case of it coming straight back up as soon as the mint wears off :( Also, don't eat more than a couple of segments in a day if you're inexperienced: it really can be too much of a good thing! It is completely worth persevering!

Durian in London's Chinatown supermarkets (two in Gerrard Street: Loon Fung and New Loon Moon) was available in 2019 (pre-COVID-19) in containers in the fridge for £15 (US$18) for a container of two/three segments of Mon Thong. Not cheap but, amazing! A whole durian cost > £30. Durian can be found year-round but is in season May - September. Can't get to Thailand? If you can get to London, you can eat fresh durian!

Isn't Mark Wiens absolutely amazing? I sit here in our little 16th century cottage in the middle of the English countryside, surrounded by rolling green hills of sheep and wildlife - and only English food available; and I can watch Mark experiencing every food the whole world has to offer, enjoying - with huge respect and humility - each culture he encounters. What a privilege! Thank you so much, Mark! It is an honour to watch the friendship and respect with which you treat your fellow human beings.

[MissDJSilver]

You are a true durian lover. It's so fun opening one up! I just bought my third one frozen and I think I got a really fresh one because this one is way creamier than the other 2.

[brunonudo]

I'm in Thailand in Mahasarakham and i eat durian once a week even if i found it still quite expensive +/- 160 baht/kilo but can not resist at the King of fruit...

[shahrukhahmed]

Hi mark, well I never ate durian in my entire life...i hope you and your family are safe and healthy..stay home stay safe stay positive...lots of love from karachi pakistan.

[MultiRabe]

Unlike most people, I love the smell of Durian! And the little “pillows” of custard goodness, are mind blowing...easily my most favorite fruit on the ENTIRE PLANET! I’m so jealous of you right now lol!

[octavio]

lol "it smells a little bit like socks... i love it"

[misssmith]

You get warm in your heart when you see Mark's durian happiness 🤗

[reijikusaka]

Watching this and just remembered Mark made a short video about tackling Durian about 10 years ago and also few other videos as well about how he loved Durian. Durian is one of the tastiest fruits indeed.

[ericrosales]

Hey Mark, I'm not sure if you've mentioned but if the durian came from an unfamiliar source, it's better to open just one pod at a time by surgically opening one section only without damaging the others. This way, if the fruit turns out to be underripe, as long as you scrape off the flesh from that opened section and keep the rest intact and unpunctured, the rest will still continue to ripen as if it's unopened. So, the next day, I'll open one, depending on how unripe the previous section was. If the first one was totally hard, for instance, I'd probably give it 2 more days atleast til the next opening. If it's slightly soft but not quite ripe, then I'd give the next section a day til opening. If a durian had 4 sections, for example, I could take 4 days to open it entirely just to get the perfect ripeness.

I wish I knew this before because I've wasted soooo many durians in the past because I ended up opening the entire fruit in one shot when it was still unripe. THis method is better than what I used to do which was opening by slicing a small triangle to "poke" inside for ripeness and replacing the sliced off rind thinking that section and the rest will continue to ripen which I think doesnt really happen because that opened section rots and contaminates the rest of the sections.

[alifasikin]

Montong is famous in indonesia... and expensive too... because the taste so... Unbelievable delicious

[sab]

durian from thailand is the sweetest i've ever taste. i did not like it at first because of the smell, but when you taste it, its actually sweet and creamy.

[erizabesu]

"It smells unique to be polite". Love Mark! Lol

[beastmodebbq]

Mark is the master of speaking with his mouth full.

[liijing_diarys]

It is also Duran season in Cambodia and we also deliver in to home so good right love from Cambodia 🇰🇭
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[gaactic_muffin]

As a white Scotish person, biting through the thin skin of a ripe durian into the thick cream inside is the most satisfying thing in the world..