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Saturday, April 4, 2009 . 7:37 PM

Gonna post about my very regretful outing with my NP classmate Jing Xiong aka JX aka Chang aka Kent's bestfriend... Went out a couple of weeks ago with him to watch the Fulham match (which we lost 2-0 with 2 red cards) at the old Crab Shack at Thomson Road which we thought was still open...anyway, I picked him up at about 8pm and we had time to kill so we decided to head down to Geylang to check out the "chicks" and make a video of "Her Majesty" (Her Mash). "Her Majesty" for those who don't know is a club along Geylang Road which of course provides services of a sexual nature. One of our classmates went there once with his own friends about a year ago and since then we haven't stopped teasing him about it.

So we drove past the hot spots looking at girls and then went further down and spotted "V2" (Tew tew tew tew) and "Looker's" which Jing Xiong went a couple of times to drink with his friends. A few hundred meters down, we spotted "Her Majesty" and we started recording the drive by and making fun of the other classmate. Once we had our fun, we passed a huge durian stall and Jing Xiong was "EH. I feel like eating durian. Lai la hor." and I was feeling a little peckish myself so I thought why not?

We parked a couple of blocks away and headed towards the stall. There was a huge row of durians ranging from 3 for $20 (D24) to $22 for 1 (King Mountain Cat). We wanted to get a taste of what really good durians were like; so we asked for a $18 King Mountain Cat. The guy brought one down and chopped open a small part of the shell and offered us to try a little before deciding to buy it, in case we didn't like the taste. It was extremely sweet and very very aromatic and we were hooked onto it. We told the guy we would have it. The next thing he did nearly stopped my heart; he placed the durian on a weighing scaled and pulled out a calculator.

Apparently an English speaking fella and a Chinese speaking fella together could not make out that they sold that particular range of durians by weight. The damn thing weighed 2.3Kg and we had to pay $40 after discount. Original was $42. Holy shit.

That was the most expensive food I have ever paid for in my 20 years on this planet. $40 for a frigging durian. We ate about 3/4 of it and Jing Xiong was feeling alot of pain in deep in his wallet and heart so he brought the rest back home. And the car smelt of durians the whole time.

Holy mofo. $40 for a mountain cat. This is really the king of all fruits. D24 is not longer the "exotic" range people. You have money? Go buy mountain cat when its in season.