BBC News - Delights of the Singapore to Bangkok 'jungle railway'
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In Singapore's art deco terminal, bound for Bangkok, I spied something unusual: durian flavoured popcorn.Now, the durian is a fruit which provokes abject delight or utter disgust. Its pungency is legendary: a mixture of cheese, onions, sherry, rotting meat and drains.
Author Anthony Burgess wrote that it was "like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in a lavatory". The celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain described it far worse: "Like French-kissing your dead grandmother". Oddly, he is still a huge fan.
So potent is the aroma from its large, fleshy lobes that the green, spiny fruit is banned from hotels, hospitals, planes and most other public transport, trains included.
