You may have seen it during your gap yah in Malaysia. Or you might have walked past it in various east end markets.
Wherever you’ve ever come across a durian – a tropical fruit which looks dangerous from the outside with its short, greenish husks – it doesn’t look appealing.
But its appearance is the least of its worries.
The yellow flesh fruit has certainly gained quite a reputation, mostly because of the way it smells.
In fact, it’s so pungent that hundreds evacuated a library at a Melbourne university this week because they thought it was a gas leak.
When emergency services arrived to detect the source, they found it was a… Read the full story