Over dinner with a friend, we just thought, let's go check out the durians (after having had good D13 on Saturday). I need to be convinced it wasn't a coincidence that the durian I had on Saturday was good. Or... ok never mind, excuses excuse.
So yes, we headed down to the durian shop to try D13. Oh... we ended up with.... let me recall,
- 2pcs D13
- 1pc XO
- 1pc Jing Feng
- 1pc MSW
D13? Red Prawn? Simi la!
My gawd! D13 was awesome beyond imagination. Ok I'm not that imaginative, but it was just the kind that is like Mike Tyson just swing his arm into my jaw, a durian-coma knock out punch that is! How so....
This particular seller knows my taste and pampered me with what could be, the best D13 I had in memory (never mind I'm usually very forgetful). A simple description, it was bruised orangy in color, which isn't common. But I heard from the guy, that the plantation they gotten it from, is known for their D13, possibly the best farm for D13 in Johor.
When the first piece entered my mouth, I couldn't quite believe the explosion and complexity of flavor, texture, aroma! It was, COMPLEX almost to that of a well written drama!
It was creamy creamy, buttery buttery, somewhat a level of thickness fibrous texture, something that is never associated with D13. Usually, it's on the softer and wetter side, but this particular one was just the opposite, that it doesn't just slipped off. There's stickiness to this particular piece we had.
Taste wise, it was bitter sweet and again, creamy... plus the kum kum taste, and that it has that unique aroma that is closed to what I always loved, the fresh brew coffee effect. It was really beyond me! I'm convinced!!! This season's D13 is so so so good, I ended up asking him to help me choose another 3, so I can bring it home, pulp and freeze it, to indulge at a later date!
XO & Jing Feng
Following D13, we had a short rest (maybe 10 mins) before we opened this Jing Feng and XO which I had chosen from e last few available.
We started with Jing Feng. It was, the start of the JF season, so expect lesser. It wasn't a small fruit (I usually like those weighing 1.0 - 1.2kg type) and weighs probably near 1.5kg (yea we didn't weigh it). The taste was acceptable, not exceptional. I'll wait few days before trying it again.
After a couple seeds of JF, I tried XO. The color of XO was beigey and creamy, not the typical whiteness of a commonly seen XO. I always like my XO to be beige than white. The XO we had has this bitterness and a good level of aroma, with the lingering numbness on the tongue like how cognac gives. A mild sweet after taste. It's good given that it's e beginning of XO season.
And I must repeat, it's good enough, cos, after MSW which I had as my next fruit, didn't overwhelmed it when I returned to XO. So this piece of XO should be worthy of a 7/10 (I couldn't give it an 8 since the aroma wasn't quite over the top).
Mao Shan Wang
It was a small fruit, weighing no more than 1.5kg from the looks. We didn't expect much of this MSW. It doesn't look that awesome visually. However, the taste was good, good level of bitterness, a nice pleasant aroma near a good satisfaction level. Overall, this MSW had left me rather impressed! I would rate it 7 to 7.5.
(With this high quality D13 I had lately, it leaves me wanting to try D101 again this season. It should start coming in by end of the week.)
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ReplyDeleteHi, thanks again for your post. Mind sharing which stall you got the D13 from? I just had D13, but I don't find it very impressive. My wife likes sweeter taste durian, so looking for good D13 or red prawn to please her :)
DeleteAs I do not like writing about stalls (because every consumer's experience will be different and also im served quite differently due to my aquantance with the seller. I don't want to influence consumers choice.), I won't say which stall I had it. Last night, when I visited the stall, I was informed that batch has already been exhausted. I tried really nice Red Prawn (Johor grown) last night though.
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