This wasn't my first experience with durian. In 2006 I visited Singapore for the first time with Brian and Evan Goldstein to instruct the first ever MS Introductory Training course in Asia. As we headed out to dinner one evening we generated past a fruit base on the side of the road that had a substantial stockpile of peculiar eco-friendly fruit. An individual in our party asked Tommy Lam, our neighborhood get in touch with, about the fruit which appeared like a cross in between an environment-friendly football and also an armadillo. "Durian," Tommy stated. "Tastes good however scents truly terrible." Being the ever interested and also compulsive Americans we had to recognize much more. Besides, just how bad could something potentially scent? To please our dark inquisitiveness Tommy drove around the block and after that downsized the windows on our second pass. Instantly a stink attacked the car-- a combo of shit, road kill and also the importance of the putrefaction decay cycle (remember that from junior high science?). It was frustrating. That individuals can also consider consuming something that scented so nasty was past belief. But I was to get more information.
