Durian Palace News

Chanthaburi and Rayong Fruit Fairs 2005 schedule
confirmed from the Tourism Authority of Thailand (Rayong office),
contact: Gong  sutipa.teerapatsakul@tat.or.th

Durian Festival 2005 (2548) in Chanthaburi: 
7-15 May (opening ceremony and fruit parade on 7 May);

Fruit Festival 2005 (2548) in Rayong, 20-26 May, 
at Tapong fruit market (opening ceremony and fruit parade on 20 May)

New DurianGroup on Yahoo! — join in!

New Durian poem by JuliNadia Herman

Chanthaburi Fruit Fair 2004 (2547)

Chanthaburi Fruit Fair 2003 (2546)

Nirav appears in the durian episode of 
The Food Hunter cable TV show

agrochemicals in Thai durians—a report from Koh Samui

"Opening a Durian" — a delightful essay by William R. Stimson

 Rare Durians of Borneo!

 Excellent new durian book now available,
probably the most comprehensive ever
published in the English language:
Durian: King of Tropical Fruit
by Suranant Subhadrabandhu and S. Ketsa
(Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
...about US$55 from amazon.com

link to large database of Thai durian exporters

The La-Ong Fah orchard of 50 rare durian varieties, 
Nakhon Nayok province, central Thailand (Bangkok Post article)
—see also this excellent descriptive page
from the tourismthailand.org website, complete with directions and contact info:
http://tourismthailand.org/agrotourism/en/east/way16/laongfa/index.php

Thailand Prime Minister gives the visiting President of the Philippines 
choice Thai durians (Bangkok Post article)

durian-flavored condoms a success in Indonesia (Deutsche Presse-Agentur article)

in Thailand, advertisements for durian-flavored condoms deemed tasteless, 
and banned (Bangkok Post article)

concealed durian sparks terrorist alarm in Australian airport (CNN.com article)

"Confessions of a Durian Seller" (Straits Times Interactive, Singapore)

Singapore Durian Parties (Straits Times Interactive, Singapore)

If anyone would like to link to this site using a Durian Palace banner graphic,
I now have one available, thanks to Adam of  
SiamFruits.com (link here), who incited me to create it:

Just copy the image above, but please include the 
ALT tag in the HTML code, as that is part of the design, like so:

<a href="http://www.durianpalace.com" target="_blank">
<img border="0" src="images/Visit_DurianPalace.gif" 
alt="Home of the King of Fruits on the Web!" width="156" height="128"></a>

(If you keep your site's graphics somewhere else besides an "images" folder,
of course then change the code to point to wherever "Visit_DurianPalace.gif" will reside on your server.)

And of course, thanks for linking!

New e-book by Shunyam Nirav!

Other websites and e-books by Shunyam Nirav

last revised: 28 March 2005