To an international audience, durian has quite the stinky reputation. Banned in hotel rooms and many public spaces, durian was recently even the reason behind the evacuation of a university in Melbourne (the smell of the rotting fruit was so pungent that it was thought to be a gas leak).
But for those of us who live in the South-East Asian region, the king of fruits will always be king, its smell welcomed and embraced like a favourite child.
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