Durian. That tropical fruit, bristling with green thorns. That rotten smell. But the heavenly bitter-sweet über-cream-wrapped seeds within.
Now nicely extracted and packed in sealed plastic boxes for you, a row or two of cradled pudding each.
Here in Singapore, this common luxury fruit has reached a seasonal high point again, with variants like black gold musang (civet - wild cat - [mountain] king, and Golden phoenix, to complement existing ones like D13 and XO:
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