Ang Moh Opening Durian & Enjoying It At Durian Stall Wins Praises from S’poreans

Honestly, I, like many of my Asian counterparts, don’t share too many similarities with Caucasians (otherwise known as ang mohs in the local context); and don’t even bother correcting me on that one because you know it’s true.

Firstly we don’t have baby blue eyes that make people go, “Oh, what an angel!”

Secondly, we don’t exactly need to bend 45 degrees when exiting the train.

And thirdly, our hair, unless artificially played with, is black as the devil’s eyes, while our ang moh counterparts could boast any colour from blonde to Auburn to even ginger.

(But of course, all these are essentially stereotypes, and there are ang mohs that are less than exemplary of what Caucasians are all hyped up to be)

However, however, there’s one stereotype that I, unlike many of my Asian counterparts, can identify with my Ang Moh pals. And honestly, I’m really kind of proud of it, because if you think about it I’m probably sharing a similarity with the majority of Hollywood stars.

Lest you’re wondering, I’m talking about durians.

Indeed, just as Asians are deemed to be literal rice pots with a craving for the carb 24/7, ang mohs are introduced as these unbelievably beautiful, beardy and gorgeous individuals with a distinct distaste for the King of Fruits. And really I’m not even exaggerating here;

Just look at the number of horrified ang mohs.

As such, you’ll be forgiven for thinking that at long last, a stereotype holds true for all individuals of that category.

But it seems that again, we’re to be disappointed.

Meet Simon

Hailing from Australia, Simon works at Fruity Fruits 88, a fruit store in South Australia. And that begets the question:

Why do you need to care about some dude called Simon?

Well, see, Simon isn’t your typical ang moh fruit worker, for…

He happens to be pretty deft with a durian.

Having showcased his durian-opening skill while promoting the store’s “Australian durians”, Simon showed just how the stereotype ‘ang mohs can’t take durian’ doesn’t apply for every white guy out there.

And to make it all the more impressive (to generic yellow-skinned people like me anyway), he proceeded to share steps to open the king of fruits.

“To open it, you just find the end here and then you can pry it open. As you pull it apart, every piece, you will have some beautiful fresh meat… Oh my God, this is gorgeous. Now that’s beautiful.”

Thereafter, Simon stated that the durians were grown in Darwin, though he also mentioned that they are of Malaysian origin.

And to cap it all off, he ended the video with one amazing gesture.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen…

An angmoh just enjoyed durians.

You can watch the entire enlightening video here:

The Internet blows up

Now if a layman were to stumble upon the video with no prior knowledge of the entire stereotype thing, he would probably expect the video to fetch a couple of sympathy views, as well as that Aunt Matilda who will be kind enough to leave a comment, “What a good-looking lad! Can I have his meat instead of the durian instead?”

But as it is, most of the Netizens who watched the video weren’t exactly laymen. And suffice it to say…

The video blew up.

Having been posted about 2 weeks ago, the video has garnered a whopping 320K views, alongside 1.8K likes and reactions and 4.1K shares. It also collected over 1.3K comments…

Of which a percentage simply expressed their amazement at the ‘feat’.in the video.

Although to be fair, some did enquire about the durian…

And Aunt Matilda might not be as elusive as you thought.

Incidentally, there’s a type of durian you might want to know about.

Durian popcorn.

Though if anyone’s gonna start bringing it into the cinema I think I’m gonna barf.

But hold a minute

Because apparently, Mr Salesman at Fruity Fruits 88 isn’t actually the first to appreciate durian for what it is.

Earlier this year, the mayor of Adelaide expressed his love of durians, and he apparently craved the fruit so much he ate them for 2 days straight.

Now, I don’t know about you, but that’s some love for durian right there. I doubt I could even last two seconds with the fruit in my mouth.

But then again it could just be me.

And a real handful of the ang moh population.

#samesamebutdifferent