Trying Durian for the First Time!

Okay I'm trying to keep a neutral face so you don't quite know if I like it or not. I'm currently 23 floors up overlooking the heart of Medan here in Sumatra, Indonesia. It's my last day here and we're about to go track down the king of fruits, also known as durian, and these are a very controversial fruit. You either love them or you absolutely hate them. I'm curious to know if I'm going to like them or not. We're going to find out. I found a cool place where you can get them from. So yeah, let's go grab a driver, head there now and see how it all goes. Guys, we've made it and look at this place. I've got like my own little room right now, which is great. Nice quiet space to film. All right guys, I have my drink. So in case it's real bad, I can wash it down. But I can already smell the durian as I walked in. So you know, these are a very strong smelling fruit. They're even banned from some hotels and also some public transport here in Southeast Asia. So it's a very pungent smelling fruit. I've got a whole one here. They've opened it up for me and... Oh, it's so spiky. There we go. These grow in a tree that's like can be up to 50 meters tall. Huge durian tree. And these will fall off when they're ripe. And they're sought after by different animals too, like orangutans and even tigers, elephants too. So yeah, at least they like them. As for me, holy moly. Oh, that's strong. It's a very sweet and I don't know. Pungent. Oh, that's very strange. I don't even quite know how to describe it. It's good and not good at the same time. So they provide gloves because I'm guessing you probably can't get the smell off your hands once you touch it. So we're going to go with this. This is bringing back flashbacks of when I needed gloves to eat super hot chilies. It's the only other fruit that I've eaten with gloves. They kind of come apart in segments, just like this. There's like three big segments here. Same here. And oh my gosh, the smell is crazy. Apparently there's a compound in this that was used in stink bombs. So putting this whole thing in my mouth feels against what my body wants to do. Why do I do this? I can't. Oh my god. Oh no. I can't chew it. Let me try finish this because I don't know if you saw, but I just gagged multiple times. Oh my god. Okay, wait. Let me try to describe it. Okay, you bite into it and it oozes out with this like custody, soft, warm consistency. Which I have a big problem with. You just get hit with the sweetest yet onion-iest, is that even a word? Onion-iest taste. Oh my god. That's like hot trash. Like when I lived with a bunch of people in the city and we left our trash out on the deck and it just sits there for a few days. Oh my god. And the thing with this is I think people who grow up eating this actually really enjoy it. Whereas people who have not experienced this before, you know, it can be quite a shock to the system. Like I've eaten literally this much. People gorge themselves on this and it's hard to understand. I actually had hopes that maybe I would actually enjoy this because I've eaten so many different types of fruits. But honestly even just the texture is a huge problem for me, let alone the flavour. Feels like quite fatty. Like it's probably rich in like fats and I think there's even an amino acid in here that if you eat quite a lot of this it can make you quite sleepy. So I don't think it'll probably have an effect with the small-ish bite that I had. And you can see that these have huge huge seeds inside and also a lot of flesh. It's very custody looking, very rich looking flesh. And yeah the seeds are really big. And I believe you can actually eat these when they're cooked. So you can like roast them, boil them. Some people even say you can like make them into chips apparently. It actually looks so good though. Like just imagine biting into that. My eyes are watering though. I really wish I could eat this and enjoy this. But I literally gagged. So I don't know how much more of this I can have. And I believe there's actually over 200 different cultivars of durian. Some are really sweet, some are more bitter. Some are more like an eggy, custody flavour. So maybe, you know, I'm not gonna completely write them off. Maybe there's some other types that I could try. But I love the skin. You know it must be quite hard for some animals to get into this. Because it's super super spiky. I'm not too sure if you can do anything with a shell. I'm guessing probably just compost it. But if anyone knows something different, let me know. And I'm actually really curious also about you guys. If you've tried durian before, please let me know. Did you like it? Did you hate it? Did you gag like me? I don't know. Very curious. But what a way to end my trip here in Sumatra. There were so many cool fruits I got to try. Amazing experiences. And a huge thank you to the amazing people of Sumatra. Because they've made me feel so welcome in this place. And it's been just a genuinely incredible trip. And thanks to you guys as well for coming along on the journey. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Thank you guys for watching. Have a good rest of your day.