HOW DURIAN CHEATS TAKE YOUR MONEY FROM YOU THE DURIAN LOVER - READ THIS AND PROTECT YOURSELF15/8/2017  GONE are the days when durian sellers would trick you into thinking that a Thai durian is as good as a D24, says Mr Goh Meng Chiang who owns the 818 Durian Stall on 201, Telok Kurau Road. Today, there are more durian connoiseurs who can tell the difference between a D24 and a XO durian, he says. But one way to get these durian connoisseurs to dig deeper into their pockets, is to come up with new names for the durians – even if they come from same tree. We had been warned about the Geylang durian crooks, but I was still incredulous as a vendor earnestly tried to sell us a large Thai fruit under the name and price of “Musang King,” the most expensive and prized durian on the market which sells for as much as 5 times the price of a Thai durian.  Trick #1: Overcharging Durians A durian that costs too much isn’t necessarily a bad durian, but being ripped off tends to put a damper on what could be otherwise be a delectably fantastic experience. Remember that most durian vendors expect you to haggle with them. The exception is swanky durian locales and Thailand, where the prices are clearly marked and non-negotiable. Most durian vendors don’t post prices. Instead, the durian vendor will come up with a number based on your appearance and his mood that day. If you look rich, foreign, or Caucasian the number is likely to be higher. Some regions have a tendency to rip you off more than others. Rob and I had a particularly hard time in Java, Indonesia, where vendors would sometimes ask up to ten times the durian’s real value. They’re not being pernicious or even trying to rip you off. They expect you to play the haggling game. If you simply accept their original offer, that just means you’re an idiot.  Trick #2: Lying About Durian Variety The durian in the picture looks a lot like Musang King, the most coveted and therefore expensive variety on the market. But it’s not. It’s a Musang King look-alike. Musang King, also known as Mao Shan Wong, is famous and the most likely variety to be fraudulent (fraudulated?). It’s bright, deep yellow flesh, strong bitter flavor and powerful name have spread it’s reputation into big bucks countries like China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Those folks may have heard of Musang King, but have no idea what one should look or taste like. Easy suckers. The price of Musang King and other renown durians — like Gan Yao, Monthong, Black Thorn, or D-24 — can be as high as 3-4 times the price of uncultivated fruits or lesser known varieties. This gives durian vendors the incentive to fake-out unwary and naive tourists, like one fellow with Thai durians on Sims Avenue who read Rob and me as clueless and decided to try his luck. The vendor offered us the Thai durian, probably Chanee, but claimed it was Musang King. Rob was amused that a vendor would try to substitute with a Thai durian, which look so outwardly different from most Malaysian durians. The Chanee can develop a rich yellow color and shape that closely resembles Musang King. We were lucky to be paying attention and avoided paying premium for a fake. We weren’t in Geylang to eat Thai durian. If this happens to you, before getting angry, remember that some small street vendors may not know much about their durians, and could just be repeating the lie given to them by their distributor.  Trick #3: Whetting the stem This trick gets us into some of the more mean-spirited ways of deceiving customers out of a good durian. When ripe, durians separate from the tree at a weakened groove on the stem. Even if plucked early, a durian is not ripe until this “joint” has come loose and fallen off. One of the most sure-fire ways of selecting durian by ripeness is by the looseness (or gone-ness) of the stem above this joint. Wiley durian vendors will fool you by cutting the stem below the joint, or right at the joint, and then whittling it into a convex shape similar to what naturally happens when it falls. These vendors will insist that all their durians fell on their own, assuring a quality taste experience that turns sulfurously disappointing at first bite. Smell, smell smell. No smell, they’re not ripe and unless you like crunchy durian, you won’t be happy. D24 DURIAN SINGAPORE HOME DELIVERY
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Underripe durians lack that ungodly, get-in-my-tummy-now (or-run-away-fast) aroma. They tend to smell sort of like grass. To fix the odor problem, a vendor will take the flesh of a fully ripe or overripe durian and mix it with water. Then he’ll put it in a squirt bottle and spray it all over the outside of the durians he wants to sell. A little tropical sun and within 10 minutes he’s got perfectly dry, deliciously odoriferous durian. Mmmmm. Not.  Trick #5: Artificial ripening This is not always a trick. In Thailand, it’s common knowledge that durian dealers, like the man featured above, paint an ethylene producing yellow paint onto the cut stems of the durians. Almost all durians everywhere wear the mark of their artificial ripening as a sign of high quality – it means the durian is not overripe and has not touched the ground. Artificial ripening is only a nasty trick if the dealer markets his durian as having fallen on their own and doesn’t disclose that his durians were plucked early and ripened artificially. In such situations, it’s unlikely the vendor used an ethylene-producing paint. Most likely he used calcium carbide, an industrial chemical sometimes used for welding. Use of calcium carbide as a ripener is banned in some countries. It’s cheap, it’s easy to use, and it works, if not well. By mimicking the effect of the fruit hormone ethylene, calcium carbide speeds the thinning of the fruit skin and the softening of the fibers. The effect is a fruit that is edible but often unevenly ripe. Currently, lobbyists in India and Malaysia are fighting to ban the use of this chemical ripener due to side effects like vomiting, diarrhea, burning or tingling sensation, numbness, headache and dizziness.  Trick #6: Rigging the scales Years ago in the Philippines, when Rob and I knew nothing about durians, a roving durian salesman peddling from his bike offered us a 6 kg durian. It was admittedly a big durian, but when he placed it on the scale we were shocked. It didn’t seem double the weight of it’s normal sized peers. We bought it (that’s the noob move) and then felt like gluttonous pigs when we devoured the whole thing and wanted more. Being Americans, we still had no concept of what a kilogram means, which is how I explain this little bit of idiocy. Later, we went back and the man offered us an even larger durian, 7 kg. This one didn’t look particularly giant either. This time Rob wised up, and put his 1.5 liter water bottle on the scale. The scale was nearly 3 kg off! So much for our gluttony. Rigging scales happens to a lesser degree in other places, but we really noticed it in Davao city in the thick of the sidewalk crush outside NCCC Mall about 3 blocks from Magsaysay Durian Park. In fact, just don’t bother buying from those guys. They buy all the rejected durian from the quality vendors at Magsaysay Park and then try to sell it at 1/3 the price, plus a little weight bonus. Learn what a one kilogram durian looks like. When in places with a tendency to rig scales, carry a water bottle. Most people can’t say no to testing the scales, and if they’re significantly off they’ll give you the true deal.  Trick #7: Selling you what others have rejected after tasting When a durian has already been opened with a knife (and not by splitting itself), it means that somebody else has already tasted and rejected it. What makes you think you want it? Durian vendors typically pile the rejected durians and sell them at a lower price. You are free to buy them, but be aware that these are probably not as good as the rest of the durians for sale. When a devious durian vendor spots a foreign durian virgin, they’ll probablyreach for their pile of discards. Sometimes they don’t even try to hide the fact that it has already been opened, thinking (probably correctly), that the greenhorn won’t know or care. I’ve also seen vendors try to hide the fact that the durian is already opened by hiding that section against his large gloved palm, while displaying to me the unopened side. He’ll proceed to open that side and let the buyer look/taste. If the buyer agrees to it, he’ll turn slightly away and then hack impressively at the fruit in a way that the buyer may never see the previous slit at all. The buy may never even realize they have just purchased a durian from the discard pile, although they may wonder why one side of the fruit tastes slightly overdone. Always examine all sides of the durian before purchasing.  Trick #8 : The switch Heres, where apparently durian thuggery is pretty intense. Here’s how this trick goes. The durian vendor is obsequious and nice. He helps you pick out a few really good durian, gives you a great deal, and you are super super stoked. You go sit at your table, or ask him to pack it for home. Because you are having such a great experience, you trust him and turn your back. Mistake! While you’re not looking it, he replaces the durian you picked with some bad durian that he can’t sell. When you get home, you open your package and take a bite to find… a bummer. Since technically you already “picked out” those durian, you can’t at this point take them back. It’s a breach of the unspoken durian contract. Double bummer. And since you are in Singapore, you just paid 100 bucks to get swindled. Ouch. Never turn your back on a durian vendor unless you already know and trust him, or you are at a high-end stall with a reputation to defend.  Trick #9: Hiding defects Yuck! There are a few exterior signs that a durian is defective. Large soft or discoloured patches indicate a phytoptera or other fungal infection, cracking denotes over-ripeness, and holes suggest the presence of worms. Durian worms are pretty commonplace, even in really high quality durian. In fact, seeing a worm hole can be a good thing because it means the durian probably wasn’t sprayed too much. But, it means that a large portion of the durian you are paying for is more than inedible, it’s disgusting. The durian should have a lower price, regardless of quality. Durian worms make a small but visible hole in the shell, and sometimes you can see the debris of the digested durian seed (the poop) around the opening. Vendors, and buyers too, can tell when a durian has been infested by worms before opening it. At carry-away places, a vendor will sometimes hide the wormholes or fungal spots by opening the durian on the uninfected side. While you investigate the perfect flesh, the damage is cradled against the large palm of his heavy glove where you can’t see it. Then when you get home, you open it up to find a half-spoiled durian. Rotten.  Trick #10: Nailing it shut....(its new sir) This last technique was told to me by a guide in Sarawak who used to sell durians. I’ve never come across a durian nailed shut, and I'm not sure how the vendor could get the nail in there without making a big hole, but I've been assured it is done. The reason for nailing a durian shut is that once a durian has been opened, either by a knife or by it’s own ripening process, nobody wants to eat it. It’s believed that most of the flavor leaves with the odor, and a cracked open durian is a sign that it’s probably not very fresh. According to the guide, a small tack or thin nail is driven into the core of the durian towards the tip to keep the durian from peeling itself open. This keeps the durian shut, and nobody can tell from the outside that it’s overripe. Bum luck for everyone except the vendor! Bottom Line: Pay more money to go to places with a reputation, or have low expectations and be on your toes when buying cheap durian. These are all the tricks that I experienced or was told about during our Year of the Durian. If you've ever been tricked, or know someone who was had by a durian vendor, please share your story in the comments below.
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