Originally Posted by tentseller

Thanks for blowing my cover.

Like all other fruits it has to eaten at its prime. Just ripe off the tree.

The best are the one that fell off the tree overnight. In SIN KUL BKK these command a premium.
Durian farm hang fishing nets about 4-6 feet off the ground tied to the tres and stakes. Every morning they will pick up the ripen fruits that has fallen off the tree onto these nets.

Frozen Durian, whole or just the seeds, forget about it.

There is a fruit-stand in old Toronto Chinatown who import their fresh Asian exotic fruit by air. It is the only place that I know it is never frozen around Toronto. I wait for my SE Asia trips to get a real fix and when I am in Durian withdraw, that stand will do.