Durians in season!!

Woohoo, durians are in season!! Everyday this week, we would pass by this roundabout where entrepreneurial hawkers would be peddling the durians they harvested. I kept wondering when I would be enjoying them. But MIL said FIL cannot eat durians coz they're high in cholesterol and since he has a heart condition, he shouldn't be eating them.

By Friday, I was delirious thinking about durians, so I suggested to Simon that we would buy them for small group! In the end MIL said, FIL could eat some lah. So off we went to the roundabout near the E-Library to shop for durians.

I tell you, the aroma is so wonderful I knew that we would hit pay dirt no matter which ones we choose. Selling price for D24 is RM20 per kg and the normal range was RM8 or RM12 per kg. We chose a few of the D24 and the RM12 ones. I believe in paying for quality when it comes to durians. After dinner, I got Simon to do the honours. Ooh, the wait was finally over. D24 is quite overated lah...but they're nice and meaty. I made Simon give Jon some. He took one lick and decided he didn't like durians. Even when Simon gave him a second time, Jon moved away! haha!We brought the durians to small group, and Jimmy did the honours this time. We had only three durians. But I guess we shouldn't overdo it, hor? In case we kena sore throats!Don't you agree that durians are best enjoyed in the company of good friends? I remember last year, I was pregnant and waiting to deliver Jonathan in Aug when it was durian season. The wonderful aroma of durians was too much to bear when one who loves durians is not allowed to eat them. I had pregnancy high blood pressure you see. So after I gave birth, I ate some. My rationale was since I was supposed to keep warm during confinement period, durians would be very helpful indeed since it's a "heaty" fruit!

The best durian time I had was two years back, at Sonny and Lilian's home, after we had the de-brief for our mission trip to North Thailand. Chee Keong ordered baskets of durians and I believed he must have paid hundreds for the supply! There was no limit to what we ate. And that was after a barbecue. The thing is that one cannot rush when one is feasting on durians. We opened a batch, ate and listened to the good doc's dissertation, and opened and ate some more.

Another time I remember with fond memories of eating durians was with our Singapore small group in KL three years back. The stall was located near Restaurant Green View (at e roundabout at Rothman's and Sin Chiew Newspaper) near SS2 mamak area. After a sumptuous dinner of 8 crabs cooked in 4 different ways, we feasted on durians. Talk about cholesterol loading!