Last year, I was forbidden to eat my favourite delicacy till the end of my pregnancy due to gestational diabetes so being the great big huge glutton that I am, I am now more than making up for it. My excuse? It produces really good breast milk!
Last weekend, I grabbed my Mom and friend all the way from Ampang to SS2 to savour the Raja Kunyit Durian (otherwise known as Mow Sang Wong), as I had been the previous weekend with a girlfriend and it had been SOOOOOOOOO good.
On week 1, we paid RM54 for 1 miserable durian with perhaps 10 seeds inside and out of the 10, 3 seeds were not perfectly ripe. My girlfriend, the efficient negotiator, demanded that we should get a perfect durian for that price. It was an exorbitant price after all! We’re looking at more than RM5 per seed, OK? So the vendor presented us with a small durian on the house. We were happy campers, as we were full and it was GOOD.
Week 2 however, the Raja Kunyit that we ate cost RM45 and was good but not great. We ordered another but it was lousy. Then he gave us another, and it was still lousy. So he told us that was it. That was the best he could do. So we left for Swensens instead.
In the past, I’d taken another girlfriend to Kepong (near Garden International School) to eat kampung durians and it cost us RM18 for 10 durians. No kidding. The 2 of us, we whacked all 10 (although they are much smaller in size) and were filled to the brim but equally satisfied. In fact, we gave the vendor RM25 and told him to keep the change but he refused! This was an old orang asli man. We insisted and won, after 10 minutes of quibbling.
So would I pay RM54 for a great durian and eat 5 seeds or pay RM20 for still pretty good durians, but eat to my heart’s content?
Definitely I am the sort who would eat till I drop! In fact, I like kampung durians because each one has its own distinct taste and texture.
wow..durians ahh…i also ate so much when i was in Penang. I definitely prefer the latter, at least can eat till pau pau
yummy! i used to think paying pittance but getting many was worth the deal since i could eat and sleep durians but recently my hubs convinced me that eating good durians is worth paying the premium price for it. i only just believe him coz i’m aware as we’re getting older, we cannot eat that much durians like before so when we can eat them, might as well just go for the darn good ones.
btw, we only go for this by the road side seller in paramount (from ss2 to paramount road) whom only sells like 2 times a year. pricey but damn good! worth the money and best of all, he packs them all for you nicely (no need to take the thorns home). he’s selling till end of next month or so i think.