Durian season is coming... hmm... well.. it's like I'm seeing it almost always unlike years back when I can only see them the most in December.

"Kueh" means "cake" in Malay Language.

I remembered that when I was young, my parents always went back to my mom's kampung for the fruit season. Durians, mangosteens and rambutans it's always what I looked forward to that time. Heaps of them. After "harvesting" them, we would go back to Kuching with a van full of our local fruits and gave it to our relatives in Kuching. Sometimes, my granparents would even ask the taxi from Serian to send them down to my dad's shop.

Our durian trees in kampung bear not much fruits anymore summore my grandparents are too old to do all those stuffs, the trees are old too. There are no more sacks of durians like 10 over years ago when we gone back but there are still sacks of rambutans to bring back to Kuching which my uncles would pluck for us.

Our durians supply now either come from the market(buy them ourselves) or from Lundu. We always get durians and rambutans from Lundu these few years. It came all the way from Lundu to Kuching via express bus or sometimes if my uncle's lorry came down, they would deliver it to us and we split among relatives in Kuching.

Talking about durians, when there are too many to consume, they will preserved it. I remember that my grandmother in Serian will presserved them in a big jar by adding in lots of salt to the durian flesh. The stones were removed. I'm not sure how long it's preserved. We called it durian "kueh", I'm not sure about the "real" name. It's not the type that you see in the supermarket where it's in dark brown color and sweet. This one I'm introducing is not sweet but it's salty because it's preserved with salt. The colour is the same colour as the original flesh.

The photo on the right is showing the "kueh" that was fried(without oil) with sugar and anchovies. Some will add in chilies. It depends. Different people have different style. The more sugar you put, the darker the colour it will be. Worth a mention is that when you cook this, gossshhh.. the smell is well... to some it's pungent, to some it makes them hungry haahaha... it's so strong that people can smell it several blocks away :P well... I'm just exaggerating, if you're staying at place where you're sharing a wall to your neighbour, you can bet that those in the same row as you will smell it. If you are living in apartment or flat, then it can be almost the whole building :P

It's best to serve with plain rice or on it's own(as in fried it as above or directly from the jar). The good thing about it is that you will not smell of durian. :) As you know durian's smell can last for a while in you but this one will not. It's just like any other food.

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