> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5025729900/ > > > > There is a new thai restaurant in Scotts Valley (a small town near my house) > with a reasonably priced lunch buffet. The food at the buffet is not as spicy > as I'd like, but still quite tasty, and reasonably priced. After lunch the other > day, I was joking with the waitress "What? No durian?", her eyes lit up and > she said "you like durian?, I can get you!" Last night we went back for dinner, > when they can make the entrees a bit spicier, and to pick up the durian. > > The table decoration caught my eye, hence this PESO. > > > > We ate one of the durians at the party. Later in the party I sipped on a little > bit of whisky. Words cannot describe the experience of a belch that brings > up the flavors of both durian and lagavulin. > > Nice bit of background/build-up, cool pic (but a bit dark on my uncalibrated > screen). > > Bob's commentary and reminisces of a childhood in Singapore were much > more interesting though (hope you don't take offense to that comment). > > ;-) >
No offence here :o) In 1998 I spent a few weeks in Zanzibar, where you can buy a fruit called jackfruit. When I first saw it I thought it was durian - they look very similar on the outside. I decided I had to try some, expecting it to be the same but it was utterly delicious. Not at all related to durian. Try some if you've never had it. Another Singapore-related fruit memory is of the mi-mi man. This was a chap who used to push a cart down the road we lived on, clacking two bamboo sticks together and shouting 'Mi-Mi! Mi-Mi!'. When we heard that we would pester our parents for a few cents and rush out to buy from him. He sold little prickly red fruit and for our cents we'd get a bagful each. I never saw them again until I was in my 20s when they started to appear in the shops here as something called rambutan. Very exciting to find them again, but they were hideously expensive. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
