Durian Makan Makan Trip @ Balik Pulau

It’s time of the year for the King of fruits and for this year, JH help us to organize a durian outing to Mr. Liew’s farm in Sungai Pinang for all the volunteers in the blood donation group.

We had our usual blood donation campaign in the morning, which happens to coincide with the 2009 World Blood Donation Day too. All the volunteers worked very hard and some even donated blood to make this 159th Campaign a success. Durian has always been a love/hate affair depending on which camp you are on. For the lovers, they were salivating just by thinking of durians; for the haters, they just wanna avoid this and run home!

We set off around 3pm to balik pulau after clearing up. JH, JW, HS and WR drove about 20 of us to the farm at Sungai Pinang. We met Mr. Liew near the MCA center there and he showed us the way to his farm. It was on those obscure road, off the main thoroughfare, along a river where you can see lots of people having their picnics and just having fun by the water. It was just a short drive and we arrive at his farm. When we arrived, there were already 3 groups there savouring their durians. Mr. Liew and wife, invited us for special homemade ice-cold nutmeg drink first! Wow. It was very refreshing! Fresh with no added preservative and sugar. Then They took us on a tour of their farm, showing us all types of plants and trees which (we are “sua pa kao”(jungle monkey in hokkien), to be exact , city “kao”), never seen before. We saw nutmeg tree, mango tree, pepper plant, lots of herbs, pomelo tree! I used to think it’s a creepy crawly like the watermelon, just indeed surprised to see that this heavy juicy fruit grow on trees! And finally, the highlight, Mrs Liew bought us to the nice cooling refreshing waterfall. Definitely didn’t expect that! There was a swing there too. Everyone just took off their shoes and dip in and just play with water.

After we had enough and our tummy grumbling, we headed back to his shed for our durians. Mr. Liew has reserved some of the best from his trees for us! We were indeed very lucky to taste all the yummy “branded” durians, like “ xiao hung, horlor, ang hey, lao chang” etc. Just to name a few. WR Just fell inlove with “xiao hung”, keeps singing “ xiao hung, xiao hung, wo ai ni” . Check out the pics from the sidebar for the pics!

All in all, an enjoyable and wonderful outing. Thanks to Bro JH for this yummy treat!