The stink on this pizza can’t be topped.
D.T. Restaurant in Queens, is serving up $14 piping-hot pies filled with the smelliest fruit on the planet – durian.
Contained in the cavernous New York Meals Courtroom in Flushing, the place the air was full of the metallic clanging of cooks at stalls hawking Taiwanese-style steak and noodles, hungry diners have been divided on the pungent pizza’s attraction.
“It will be smelly,” plumber David Wang, 55, warned The Put up.
The spiky tropical fruit — which might develop to the scale of a soccer — is taken into account a delicacy by many throughout Southeast Asia, owing to its custard-like texture and taste recalling notes of caramel and vanilla, together with a slight bitterness.
On the similar time, durian has garnered worldwide notoriety for its wretched odor — a stench so overwhelming it has been mistaken for a fuel leak and gotten the fruit banned from public transit and in lodges in Vietnam and Singapore.
“I don’t need to scent it too strongly — somewhat bit can provide me a headache,” Yuam Bing Liu, 36, stated of durian, earlier than chomping down on one among D.T.’s pies throughout her lunch break.
The pie, she raved, had a lightweight sweetness from the fruit and a “very wealthy” mouthfeel, due to broiled mozzarella cheese protecting it.
The sewer-esque aroma, in the meantime, was far tamer in comparison with the uncooked fruit, however nonetheless very current to these on the desk.
“It turned out very scrumptious,” she stated, earlier than including, “I believe it’s higher to not scent it an excessive amount of.”
Many diners identified that durian pizza for years has graced restaurant menus in China and Thailand. The mixture, they added, isn’t that totally different from one other candy — and divisive — pizza topping.
“Individuals put pineapple on pizza, this is similar factor,” stated Elmhurst wholesaler Summer season Yu, 30.
D.T. Restaurant isn’t the one Massive Apple eatery experimenting with the notorious fruit, which might price over $5 a pound. Jeffrey Wang, proprietor of the East Village espresso store Not As Bitter, beforehand informed The Put up their best-selling menu merchandise is a durian latte, blended with the fruit’s pulp.
An worker at D.T. Restaurant declined to debate the menu merchandise, which was first reported by Eater NY. DT Restaurant’s house owners could possibly be reached for remark.
Sarah Huang, 24, an information coverage analyst from Stamford, CT, had just one gripe about D.T. Restaurant’s pizza: extra durian, please.
“It’s an excessive amount of cheese,” she stated.
Extra reporting by J.C. Rice.
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