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To eat it seems to be the sacrifice of self-respect," wrote 19th-century American journalist Bayard Taylor. French naturalist Henri Mouhot was a bit less delicate: "On first tasting it I thought it like the flesh of some animal in a state of putrefaction." Hate them or — as millions already do — love them, for many durians are nothing less than "hell on the outside and heaven on the inside." Th..

You’ve probably seen images of Singapore’s national icon, the mythical Merlion with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. A fishy tale The Merlion's body symbolises Singapore's humble beginnings as a fishing village when it was called Temasek, which comes from the same root as the word tasek ('lake' in Malay). Its head represents Singapore’s original name, Singapura, or ‘lion cit..