Durians Are Not the Only Fruit: Notes from the Tropics Condition:Well Read Destined to become a running

Destined to become a running classic

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Durians Are Not the Only Fruit: Notes from the Tropics Condition:Well Read Destined to become a runningIn this mix of memoir, lyric essay and nature writing, Wong Yoon Wah takes the unusual approach of turning his gaze away from the people of Nanyang, and examining instead what surrounds us: the fruits we grow, the food we eat, the trees and animals that thrive in our midst. Along the way, he throws us fascinating cultural insights: how thunder tea rice, which contains neither thunder nor tea, acquired its name; how early settlers used the raintree to