Durian’s larger-than-life persona can be intimidating. No other fruits have been described with so many hyperbolic similes. It doesn’t help that long before stricter security measures on in ...

Sonny Side heads to Davao City, the Durian Capital of the Philippines, for a food tour unlike any other. Known for its strong smell and divisive taste, durian takes center stage in everything from ...

To eat the durian, take out the pods of fruit. Form your lips into an “O” shape and suck on a durian pod, taking in the first wave of fragrance.

And durian, as it turns out, has a lot of the same puzzle pieces: according to the new study it has 46,000 genes—roughly twice the number found in human DNA—that are mostly just repeats of a ...

A young couple got hooked on durians after one life-changing bite in 2009. And after two years of tracking the stinky sweet fruit through Southeast Asia, they've become experts on durian tourism.

“I don’t want to smell it too strongly — a little bit can give me a headache,” Yuam Bing Liu, 36, said of durian, before chomping down on one of D.T.’s pies during her lunch break.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Just one 2.5-kilogram durian from Nonthaburi, Thailand, can cost $380. Yet the fruit has a smell that some people find extremely unpleasant. In ...

Durian’s larger-than-life persona can be intimidating. No other fruits have been described with so many hyperbolic similes. It doesn’t help that long before stricter security measures on in ...