hey everyone welcome to hot thai kitchen I am in Bangkok Thailand and you wouldn't believe
what I'm about to do everybody go and have durian soft Bay that's right I'm standing in
front of durian festival is a special event and peak a fruit season peak of Syrian season and
me and my brother are going to go gorge ourselves with as much durian as we can
possibly handle they also have a little area a little market area where they're selling
all sorts of durians products you can imagine so let's go and have a look see some sample
yamaja this papaya salad made with durian those under-ripe durians was a little crumb here and
there syrian curry community man huh so this is massaman curry made with durian very intrigued
Oh oh that's really good it doesn't actually have that strong during flavor because they use
under-ripe furious it's just a nice soft texture is all about texture really there really isn't any
taste to it this is green curry or the flurries really light it's really good again there's none
of that durian aroma that we associate with it super nice soft and what's up a doughy texture
actually that's really good helping half and on top of three and there's also pineapple I mean
again this is end of May its peak fruit season this one's actually one of the more famous ones
look how small it is if they can tiny a little mini durian this is a variety called long Laplace
really expensive it's 1200 baht per kilo and a kilo is 2.2 pounds for those of you in North
America and oh my god 1200 watts per kilo okay the durian ice cream sticks I mean Julian Cope owl Ava
ha so I thought it was just frozen during but it's actually during ice cream that they reshaped into
a durian shape I don't know why they do that because if you've ever had frozen durian it
pretty much tastes like ice cream already and at a little bakery fan they have durian cakes and by
that I mean little durian cake look at that look how cute that is it looks like a durian and right
next to it check that out mangosteen cake that looks so good alright we are now approaching the
durian buffet area I'm going to go in and start gorging myself so we're here and all you have to
do is just grab a plate of durian and start eating it feels kind of weird absolutely I just take it a
joke unfortunately they only have one type of serious which is a month long the most famous
kind and then over here so it's more than just a durian buffet you can also grab a basket and
to fill it up with rambutan and mango seed and whatever else you'd like i better not take too
much because they say if you have more than 30% of what you take less you got to pay a fine so
here's a tip for when selecting mango seeds you want to pick one and press around the fruit and
it should be soft if you get a spot across part that's usually because it's not any good okay and
at the table they've got all your supplies ready and you I guess you're going to sit anywhere water
I don't know if you have to pay for this I'm guessing not it's like 500 bucks would be here
so there's napkins and plastic bags for these I suppose okay so it just occurred to me that
these are actually gloves so that you know during kind of mushy and soft and fruits can be messy
and so you can you don't have to wash your hands after what I've really enticed you they give you
gloves and it's really hot right now in these gloves make it even hotter all right here we go
oh it's perfect it's perfect ripeness sometimes a
little too hard sometimes a little too mushy and this is just perfect
soft custard ease I know there's probably some of you durian haters out there but maybe you
just haven't had the good one so for drinks they also have some fresh young coconuts at
oak they open just when you order it looks nice fresh now mangosteen I want to show
you how to open I usually use a knife to open this so they don't give you anything no nice
support no nothing so I guess I'll have to do it by hand and you just have to like push
it until it's great and open it oh my god it's perfect Leeloo mango seeds is sometimes it's a
real big disappointment because you open it and it's all rotting on the inside oh
my god and so mangosteen you just sort of suck the really juicy soft flesh then you just spit
out the seeds and for the little one the seeds are so small you can just swallow it this is by
far my ultimate all-time favorite fruit if I have to eat one kind of fruit for the rest of
my life visiting it and of course at a fruitful say they've got to have mango and sticky rice
look at the different beautiful colors and I'm guessing this is turmeric that's black sticky
rice for sure I don't know what that purple is emitted might be food coloring this mango
is what we call Nam my mango and nam tok my is sort of our most famous mango it's delicious not
my favorite though my favorite is a spike all along which is really hard to find these days
so look this is my first bite of mango in light of hi mango like seven months or something like
that is life and it's always surprises me the flavor and the aroma of mound of my mango and
how different it is from the kinds of mangoes Alex get in Canada of silvus this fruit is ex
I don't actually love it it costs a lot in Thai I don't know what the name is English but I just
wanted to show you I mean I wouldn't eat a bucket of this ever it's got lots of tiny little thorns
it's like it's nice and red and it's got a really distinctive smell which I actually don't love but
for the sake of Education I want to show you so in order to open this you definitely want
to grab it with paper or something cuz these little thorns can prick your fingers you know
it really boggles my mind they have free peels lychee here but I find that like lychee is like
one of the easiest things to peel by hand but they don't peel these for you I don't
understand the logic behind that okay so I'm pulling out the skin and I can smell it already
I mean it's a really fruity heart smell but I just for some reason it's just not my favorite
juicy sweet this one's actually sweet which is good I'm learning too I like it more than
I thought I did all right rambutan this hairy red little fruit is also one of my favorites
normally again I would use a knife but I guess I'll have to just grease it by hand
not the easiest thing to do oh there you go yes and rabbit has one of those great fruits
that pretty much all of them are good like you know you don't get one the sour or one that's
not the only thing you have to worry about is some being rotten at the top like this one's
not great see how it's sort of like bruised but it's okay as long as there's no worm now this
one this one smell good I can actually taste the that it's on its way out Mary oh this one's so
sweet should be like that clean no browning no bruising and this will taste better too
so good we just a little hint of tartness really juicy like in terms of texture there's no other
fruit I could compare this to and say it's like X like it does not like anything I'm
going to end my night with more durian after all this is why we named this one also comes
with a skin so you get the whole effect I also wanted to let you know that if you want
to come to Thailand and you want to try fruit come during this time May June right around
here peek through season and you'll be glad you did it's a little hot but it's worth it