I was so depressed after cooking the unsuccessful "To impress in laws lunch". I wanted to get some good durians to comfort myself. As i chance upon a blog recently talking about how delicious this "Cat Mountain Durian" (direct translation from 猫山王榴莲) is, i decided to give it a try. We went to the durian shop 717 at Highland Centre looking for this 猫山王榴莲, but bought the "XO durian instead. Because the boss said that the season for 猫山王榴莲 was over, the stock now is not so good so advice us to buy XO durian instead. Since he is the expert in durian, so we take his words for it and bought the XO durian instead. Anyway its cheaper than the 猫山王榴莲, so why not. (猫山王榴莲 cost $20/kg and the XO is $12/kg). As it was "New arrival" (as in the lorry just came to deliver the durians) so the seller asked us to take more, as they are "fresh". Thinking that i am durian lover, my "loving husband" agreed almost immediately and we took four! But that was too many durians to finish, because that was only the two of us eating. Anyway, we bought four, which cost us $65.
.Even though i love to eat durian, but i don't eat them often. Therefore i don't really know the difference between each type of durian. I only know a few types, which are XO, D24 and some D... but i do not know how to differentiate them or how different they taste. But at least what we bought were considered nice, because the seller were able to give us what we want - our favourite "Bitter sweet" durian! We only managed to finish 1 and a half durian last night, still have a few more to go...
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** Just to update, we tried to finish the "left over" durian last night, than we realised that most of them do not have meat inbetween anymore. So not sure if it's because XO "breed" is like that. So from the pictures above, what you see is what you get. Nothing more from it.
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