After lunch at Mari-Mari Cultural Village we didn't have much room for dinner. I found a new snack that became an instant favourite. Coconut (water) pudding.
Salted egg bitter gourd. It came as a surprise, being deep-fried. Crispy like chips, crisps even.
Sambal belacan aubergines
Coffee at another place earlier
It had rained hard all morning and till afternoon. Fortunately it decided to stop after 4pm or so and we immediately went straight to "durian street" in the neighbourhood of the central market. The durian vendors from the countryside arrive in late afternoon and start setting up their stalls on this street. There are also other vendors selling fruits, snacks, and meal components (for takeaway).
Preparing jackfruit
Small jackfruit, much smaller than one in photo above.
Might be something Indian. I should try it next time I see it. The metal moulds are non stick.
The finished product, folded in half and placed in a rack above the moulds.
A nice-smelling fruit
Fish heads
If something is not drenched in chillies you probably eat it with a sambal (chilli paste/sauce).
Seaweed salad
There's a takoyaki stall
Every blue tent is a durian stall
Bow before the King! King of fruit in Malaysia that is! Musang King is the most popular (some say overrated) cultivar of durian in Malaysia and Thailand.
The letter D plus numbers is the registration code for each variety.
The prices are what Malays call daylight robbery. Mostly tourists who are willing to pay the price this early in the season.
They crack it open for you and you sit down at a picnic table behind the stall to enjoy your durian. Plastic gloves are provided.
I'm desperate and having only a limited time here so I paid the high price, extortionately expensive Musang King shipped from Kuala Lumpur. The season has just started in peninsular Malaysia, but not here in Sabah, which is in high summer.
Unfortunately I didn't get to eat this fruit. The durian vendor told me I got ripped off good and the fruit was bad. He advised me to ask for my money back. I did, even though not all the amount but almost.
