Naturally, I had to try them. How bad could they be? After all, the durian content of the wafers, in the form of freeze-dried durian, made up only 5 percent of the total cookie.

Durian’s larger-than-life persona can be intimidating. No other fruits have been described with so many hyperbolic similes. It doesn’t help that long before stricter security measures on in ...

A-hed; A Nation Goes for Dominance—of World’s Stinkiest Fruit Farmers in China are racing to unlock the secrets of the cultivation of durian, which some say smells like gym socks ...

Durian is so smelly, 550 people evacuated a library in 6 minutes, thinking there was a gas leak. Mo Styles Food writer Richard Sterling described durian's odor as a mix of " ...

“I don’t want to smell it too strongly — a little bit can give me a headache,” Yuam Bing Liu, 36, said of durian, before chomping down on one of D.T.’s pies during her lunch break.

How bad could it be? I have been intrigued by durians for years, ever since I first heard them described on the radio. Some people, the report said, find the durian the best-tasting fruit in the ...