I joined 9 friends from Nature Photography Society on a durian trip in Tangkak. Tangkak is about 180km from Tuas Checkpoint (about 2hrs drive). Our meeting point was at the first petrol kiosk, Malaysia side of the Second Link at 7.30 am. We drove to the nearby kulairaya town to have our breakfast. The tau sa pau and big ba pau were very nice.
While taking a break at a toilet point, we spotted a bird nesting. SC & Yixiong got excited and took out their heavy gears to shoot. Allan & Tony also joined in the fun later on. What was supposed to be a 5 minutes break became one hour of shooting.
Tony, the organiser, had arranged 2 places at Tangkak to eat durian. One of which was at a small village house near a roadside. The owner is a friendly malay lady who prepared many varieties of durian such as D2, D3, D4, D24, D101, Kim Hong, etc. After tasted all, I got confused and now I could not remember which was which. I could only remember D2 which was more "sticky" and I like this the best.
We did not eat alot (about 8 pieces on average) as we knew that the durian plantation that we would visiting was only about 10 mins drive from here. We ate more than 10 durians which cost us just $90 ringgit! It was about 11 am when we finally reached the durian plantation.
Tony had pre-ordered $820 ringgit worth of durians here! Most of the varieties were similar to those that we tasted earlier except that it had "Maosanwang" which I liked alot. I wanted to order 5kg of D2 & Maosanwang but there was no stock. According to the owner, there wasn't many durians this season when compared with previous years.
We took a casual walk around the plantation and the owner told us that we can eat whatever fruits that can find there. Beside durian trees, there were many rambutan trees but only a few bear fruit. We plucked some but they were not very sweet. Other fruit trees found include jackfruit, custard apple, etc.
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