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China is so crazy about durian that it's now Pizza Hut's best-selling pizza ingredient in the country
Yum China's CEO said that it's sold 30 million durian pizzas in 2024 so far, as the country importe…
Matthew Loh
The true cost of our obsession with superfoods like avocado, açaí, and durian
The world can't get enough of so-called superfoods like açaí, durian, and avocado. But they may not…
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A woman lost her life savings and was left with just $5 after she got scammed by a bogus durian seller: report
The 50-year-old woman who wanted to buy cheap durians inadvertently authorized a scammer to take te…
Aditi Bharade
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7 diners demolished 300 crabs, 40 boxes of durian, and 80 bowls of dessert at a single buffet sitting, stunning the Chinese internet
"In the end, we ate until the staff had to end their shift," Zhang told the local Chinese news outl…
Matthew Loh
The most expensive durian ever sold was auctioned for $48,000. Here's why Nonthaburi durians can be expensive.
Durian's smell is famously divisive. But in Asia and the Pacific Islands, durian is known as the "K…
How durian, the 'king of fruits,' sparked a land battle in Malaysia
Durian is the king of fruits in Asia, and demand is off the charts. Farmers in Malaysia are cashing…
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A battle is unfolding over the world's smelliest fruit, and farmers in Malaysia say their entire livelihood is being wiped out at the worst possible time
Farmers who have been growing the famed Musang King durian for decades say state agencies are tryin…
Matthew Loh
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Jackfruit known as the king of fruits can now charge your phone, says study
In the study, published in the Journal of Energy Storage, the research team explaind how they ma…
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The foul smell of durian fruit temporarily grounded a plane in Indonesia and almost led passengers to fight the crew
According to Kristen Lee, a writer for Gawker Media, the fruit has a pungent odor: "I honestly cann…
Brian Pascus
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Singapore is considered one of the best-designed cities in the world. The man who masterminded it has 2 regrets.
Singapore is home to a population of 5.9 million, despite spanning just 284 square miles.
Amanda Goh
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Singapore's 'ice cream uncles' are disappearing. Blame old age and bureaucracy.
The old ice cream sellers in Singapore carry heavy boxes and spend most of their 10-hour shifts on …
Amanda Goh
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Pizza Hut is debuting a new pizza with a monstrous heap of cilantro on top of it
The cilantro-topped pie was one of more than 100 "eccentric ideas" that Pizza Hut Japan devised to …
Matthew Loh
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Japan's ghost town problem, the bleak reality of 'Squid Game,' and how Vietnam destroyed its last paradise: our most popular stories from Asia
Insider launched its first Asia bureau one year ago. Here are 16 of the most popular stories from o…
Insider Inc, Singapore bureau
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H&M has been accused of ripping off queer Asian American designer Chet Lo by selling clothes that are strikingly similar to his signature spiky knitwear designs
His clothes, which have been worn by celebs including Doja Cat and Kylie Jenner, are hand-knitted a…
Waiyee Yip
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Overwhelmed passengers abandoned an Indonesian flight crammed with 2 tons of a notoriously smelly tropical fruit
Even with the thick spiky husk intact, the unnatural Asian fruit has such a fearsome, unrelenting s…
Christian Edwards,Christian E…
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A bakery in Vietnam turned more than 66,000 pounds of dragon fruit, unsold because of the coronavirus outbreak, into wildly popular pink baked goods in just 3 weeks
Kao Sieu Luc, the founder of ABC Bakery, was struck with inspiration for the dragon fruit-centric b…
Kate Taylor
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An Australian university was evacuated when a pungent fruit was mistaken for a gas leak
In a statement entitled "Rotten afternoon on campus," the Metropolitan Fire Brigade described how i…
Tara Francis Chan
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I spent 2 years living in Malaysia - here are 14 of my favorite fruits Americans probably wouldn't recognize
In the two years I lived in Malaysia, I came across dozens of fruits I had never even heard of in t…
Mark Abadi
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The only recipe you need to conquer the delightfully tough new 'Legend of Zelda' game
In case it isn't clear, the result of cooking together five durian in "Breath of the Wild" is a res…
Ben Gilbert
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The one recipe you need to conquer the delightfully challenging new 'Legend of Zelda' game
In case it isn't clear, the result of cooking together five durian in "Breath of the Wild" is a res…