I was a bit worried when i first arrived to Rangoon (or Yangon now) in Burma (currently calling itself Myanmar). I looked around but durians were nowhere to be seen. In fact most of the fruits were temperates like apples, pear, strawberry, with a few bananas, pineapple, and watermelon. For the most part pretty boring stuff. But today walking around main city centre i did find some vendors with durians, mangosteen, and jackfruit. It's possible that the durians and mangosteens are imported from Thailand, but not sure on that. But the fruits looked and tasted differently than the monthongs and kan yaos in Bangkok. The arils had a bit of orange/pinkish tinge and unlike the monthongs did have some viable seeds inside. I managed again to get the durian back into my hotel. A bigger risk this time as this one had a big "durians prohibited" sign. I got the vendor to open the durian fruits and put the arils inside some plastic sealed styrofoam containers. Once in my room i slip them into my fridge, and oila...almost zero smell...until i open the fridge. I find that a majority of the smell comes from the rind, so if you get rid of the rind you can pretty much go undetected. If you don't hear from me again it's because i got kicked out of my hotel and homeless on streets of Rangoon.
I might find more selection tomorrow as main market was closed today. You won't believe this but they were closed for Christmas. BUT this is a 95% Buddhist country, and the other 5% contains almost no Christians. So why they close for Christmas is beyond me!!!??
Topic: Durians for Christmas in Rangoon (Read 1894 times)