TUWI BUYA VILLAGE DURIANS

Durian is the name of tropical vegetation which comes from southeast asia. It is also the name of fruit. This name is taken from its skin characteristics which is similar with “duri” or thorn. Its famous name is King of Fruit. Durian is a controversial fruit because many people like it but many of them hate its smell.

Because the strong smell of it, and it tends to smell rotten, some transportation companies forbid people bring durian, for example in the plane, public transportation or into the hotel. However, many people still like durian. Durian is quite expensive.
Durian has various kinds. There are 20 species of durian in Indonesia. Nine of them can be eaten. Durian fruit is eaten when it is in the fresh condition. In general this fruit is sweet and very nutritious because it consists of carbohydrate, fat, protein, and mineral.

In the harvest season of durian, this fruit is everywhere, especially in its production centre region. Traditionally, the flesh of the fruit can be cooked with sugar and it becomes “lempok or dodol” or it can be fermented to be tempoyak. The taste of tempoyak is sour and it is usually eaten with sambal or to be additional ingredient to cook fish.

The are hundreds of tuwi buya durian names.the following are the nemes of the durians is tuwi buya village,drin ronga,drin jantong,drin apam meleok,drin jagat,drin abo,drin langsat,drin kunyit,drin saka,drin panah,drinbren,drin kuburan,drin lampoh soh,drin kuyun,drin labu,drin lemak,drin tambo dll.

The photos below is a durians from tuwi buya village,