"This is how we teach tourists to eat durian because they say that it is a smelly fruit," said Ghasali Mohd Yunus, the 68-year-old committee member of the Bukit Gantang Homestay initiative.
The trick usually worked with children but was less successful with their parents, he said with a grin.
Since opening his home for homestay programmes, Ghasali has freely shared with his foreign guests his two firmly held beliefs -- that Bukit Gantang has the best durians and that all Malaysians, irrespective of race, love the durian.
When the village hosted the "Great Durian Festival" for the third time in August last year, more than 5,000 people turned up and ate 15 lorry-loads of durian (about 16,000 fruits) within two hours, he said.
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