A recently opened street food dining hall in the city centre has just added a highly divisive dessert to its menu. Hello Oriental, Manchester’s underground three-storey food hall and market, has introduced durian fruit ice cream to its roster, a fruit that is perhaps best known for its memorable smell.
The fruit, which is grown in Indonesia, Malaysia and southern Thailand, is so pungent that it’s been banned from subways in Singapore. It’s been described as evoking everything from “dead cats” to “pig s***, turpentine and onions”.
While the smell alone would put most people off, it does in fact have many fans, which is why Hello Oriental has decided to stock the “divisive” dessert. It is said that once you get past the smell, you’ll find it to be one of the most addictive flavours to cross your tastebuds.
