{"id":9538,"date":"2025-10-27T03:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fruitful-friendship\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T03:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:08:47","slug":"fruitful-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fruitful-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruitful friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption>\n   Musang King durians in Raub of Pahang State, Malaysia, on Oct 16. CHENG YIHENG\/XINHUA<br>\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The tale of durians &mdash; a fruit loved by some and loathed by others &mdash; has a historical link to Chinese bonds with Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>In the 15th century, Chinese explorer Zheng He, during his legendary voyages to <em>Nanyang<\/em>, warmer and fertile geographical region along the southern coastal regions of China and beyond, encountered a mysterious fruit called <em>du&rsquo;er yan<\/em>. He described it as having a strong odor but a sweet, delectable flesh.<\/p>\n<p>While many are initially put off by the fruit&rsquo;s pungent aroma, once they taste it, the &ldquo;king of fruits&rdquo; often wins them over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Fruitful friendship<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musang King durians in Raub of Pahang State, Malaysia, on Oct 16. CHENG YIHENG\/XINHUA The tale of durians &mdash; a fruit loved by some and loathed by others &mdash; has a historical link to Chinese bonds with Southeast Asia. In the 15th century, Chinese explorer Zheng He, during his legendary voyages to Nanyang, warmer and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fruitful-friendship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Fruitful friendship&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}