Durian Fiesta at Tulai Orchard and Masak tempoyak Bunga Durian with pucuk ubi from my kitchen

Jalan-jalan cari Durian!!! Tulai Orchard ,here we come :D

 
Fruit  Feista!!!!

Most photos below are from Tulai Orchard.

Heaviest harvest so far : Musang King 6.3 kg???

Wonder no more why you have to pay more for some durian ???? A part from the type of durian variants, the soils,organically grown,.Did  I mention A LOT  of HARD WORK  being putting in to ensure premium bounty harvest!!!! EACH DURIAN TREE  BEING SCRUB FREE from pokok duit2 .Yes, the worker claimed up and did it manually by hand to scrub free the trees from these  parasit plant (pokok duit-duit, picture below)

Parasit plant (pokok duit-duit) that will suck away the nutrients from Durian plants

 Tulai orchard doing their best  practising ORGANIC FARMING 

Some are old durian tree

Orchad's Friends

Finding nemo???

 they have turkey too :D
other fruit trees such as mata kucing,pulasan, passion fruits, langsat. duku, bananas, mangosteen , kelapa padan etc.

we had some papaya too. This is 'betik sekaki" because the fruits are one foot long when ripe.

other plants caught my eyes too.too much to share here. But this one is special to me, I haven't seen this babe before, I will ask Pak Din   for her ID . The owner's mum boil the leaves for tea,believed to reduce blood sugar.

from the pond. What a catch!!!

This visit is much awaited not just  for makan durian . I am in fact looking forward to see durian flowers, to collect them and bring home ,to show to my kids . I challenged my self to find edible flowers ,then try cook them  or eat raw  .This month challenge in my kitchen is edible flowers raw and cooked,next will be edible weeds etc just to whip up something new to add fun in my kitchen with my kids. I didn't know that Durian flower is edible until I bump onto this  site http://www.malaysiavegetarianfood.com/2013/06/11/durian-flowers-as-vegetable/ .Then I searched to find more info ,so I can cook Durian flowers too with more confident. Sayur Bunga Durian seems delicious toohttp://dayangcitra.blogspot.com/2011/10/sayur-kangkung-bunga-durian.html?showComment=1386641735029#c6160422094546532278 and more info regarding  durian flowres. tqvm for sharing durianhttp://dakpink.blogspot.com/2013/03/bunga-durian.html and i found here too,http://cikgoo-jasz.blogspot.com/2012/08/bungai-rian-aka-bunga-durian.html. I think now I will cook Durian Flower my version ,with what ever I have from my garde and from my kitchen.So Masak  Tempoyak  Duria flowers (filaments) with cassava/topioca young shoots (pucuk ubi kayu ) ,pekasam ikan puyu and ayam goreng kunyit are for our dinner tonight.The dessert is biji cempedak rebus. I call this match made meal from heaven.

Bunga Durian.

Filaments  of durian's  flowers  masak lemak tempoyak with pucuk ubi kayu (young shoots of topioca /cassava plants)

Tok cik's dinner  : Masak lemak tempoyak Bunga durian with pucuk ubi kayu   makan dgn ikan pekasam

Best time to visit Tulai Orchard is during Durian Peak season in August .
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TQVM Tulai Orchard for having us.We will come back again