{"id":540,"date":"2020-08-17T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2020-08-17T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T16:33:47","slug":"the-garden-offers-a-place-to-enjoy-durian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"The Garden offers a place to enjoy durian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GardenHS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GardenHS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GardenHS-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GardenHS-768x489.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Anther and Tonny (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: The movement control order (MCO) has\ninspired many people to do online business to stay afloat during this trying\ntimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now selling durian is also going online which is\none of the best options for those craving to eat the king of fruits but yet\nwanted stay contactless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBuying durian is getting fun nowadays as now we have\nonline live telecast bidding session for those who stay at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe selling price of durian will start from zero\nand the highest bidder will win and also entitled for a lucky draw gift in a\nform of cash or fruits,\u201d said Anther Liew who is the operator of the newly\nopened The Garden at Kampung Kepayan, off Lintas road here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Garden was created to provide a proper place\nfor tourists and locals-alike to eat durian and other cuisines at a comfortable\nplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the variety of durians from Kinabalu King to Tekka,\nUndang Merah, D10, D13 and others are selling at a standard price of RM25 per\nkilo except for Musang King which is priced at RM60 per kilo, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany people like this concept (online bidding)\nbecause it was fun and this is the new trend nowadays since the MCO started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome customers who dine at the Garden also\nparticipated in the bidding session because they want to experience the fun and\nexcitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe participants are given two minutes to decide\nand the bidder who really want to eat a particular durian, for example Undang\nMerah or Fung Ha, they don\u2019t mind to raise the bid to few ringgits, especially\nwhen it was the last one left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUsually, the winning bidders will only pay over\nRM5 from the usual price, furthermore it is free delivery within Kota Kinabalu,\nInanam and Putatan areas,\u201d Anther said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day, certain among of durians will be set\naside for the bidding session and when the stocks finished, they will switch to\nseafood, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabah Tourist Association chairman Tonny Chew commented: \u201cI think this is a good move as we can turn this into yet another tourism destination and product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is also timely because we receive a lot of\ncomments from tourists that we don\u2019t have new product and location to offer\nbesides the older locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, this is a one-stop centre and a new location to eat durian at a localised price. At the moment they are targeting the domestic market as they have 10 food stalls selling Japanese food, dumplings, barbecue and many more.\u201d -HS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: The movement control order (MCO) has inspired many people to do online business to stay afloat during this trying times. Now selling durian is also going online which is one of the best options for those craving to eat the king of fruits but yet wanted stay contactless. \u201cBuying durian is getting fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}