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Most read of 2023: tasting the first Chinese durian, drinking in Korea’s whisky trend, tributes to MasterChef Australia host – top food and drink stories
- The first China-grown durian piqued Post readers’ interest in 2023, as did a Singapore hawker’s global expansion and a Hong Kong hospitality veteran’s food picks
- Tributes to MasterChef Australia’s late host got your attention, and so did a Hong Kong restaurant’s apparent copycat and a Chinese family’s market in Canada
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From taste testing China’s much anticipated first home-grown durian to how a family who left Guangzhou, southern China, for Vancouver in 1981, built a fruit and vegetable empire in Canada, we look back at the food and drink stories most read by Post readers in 2023.
1. A taste of China’s home-grown durian
China’s much-anticipated first home-grown durian got the taste test in August from the Post’s Shea Driscoll.
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He found the taste and smell were just a faint facsimile of a “proper” durian, while the texture was, at times, reminiscent of an unripe banana.
Read more here.
2. Young Korean drinkers toast to whisky
Forget beer and soju, young Koreans are going crazy for whisky, and premium Scotch malts such as Macallan are selling out.
Once considered uncool and a “drink for middle-aged men”, in South Korea whisky has recently become trendy with young drinkers. Millennials are buying both cheap bottles for mixing highballs, and expensive Scotch, as well as Japanese malt whisky brands such as Yamazaki.
Read more here.
3. Singapore chef shines bright
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