durian flower

- durian flower from bappy's uncle (ji pek) -

Durian flower is edible. But of course we have to cook it before we eat it. :D. And it is best to cook with belacan! The durian flower in the picture looks dull because my MIL says the flower is collected yesterday. It would be fresher and nicer if we cook it on the same day the flower is collected in the durian farm. The durian flower gets dull very quickly.

Before we cook the durian flower, we have to pre-process the flower first. We take off all the anther of the flower slowly by fingers. It is quite an easy task but there are lots of flower to be cleaned and the anther are sticky. MIL says if we cook the durian flower with the anther, the dish will be more 'sticky' wor... I'm not sure about this because I never cook durian flower. :P

- agnes helps in the 'cleaning process' of the durian flower -

At the beginning, agnes tear the anther from each stamen one by one. Wow, that's really slow like a tortoise and bappy says this won't help to finish the cleaning soon. But I say just to let her busy with us in the food preparation else she has nothing to do and start 'disturb' other things that could drive us mad or worry. I believe she slowly will find herself a smarter way to clean off the anther from the stamen soon.

After don't-know-how-many anthers she has cleaned, I realised she found the faster way to clean the flower. :D Just wipe the stamens with the finger tips and the anthers will easily teared from the stamen lor. wuahahhaa! Yea, I think she learned something from the process. :)

- close up to see what she does to the durian flower-

- wipe off the anther from the flower with fingers -