(28-12-2022, 08:44 AM)sgbuffett Wrote: [ -> ]You are saying if someone says he lives in a 100yo house...he is just saying house is old but may not be around for 100yrs.
So my question is when they say this how old is old? 20yrs?
Yes it cannot be 100 years
Let me tell you a story...
MSW does not originate from Pahang, but actually from Kelantan
And was named after a small town there, called Gua Musang
In 1985 or there about, a farmer owner of Fook Gor Farm from Pahang went to Kelantan
He came across a very old durian tree near Gua Musang
He brought back a branch from this old tree to his farm in Raub, Pahang and started propagating it
Seven years later, the tree bear fruits
He and his fellow farmers tasted it and found it to be like tasted like heaven
At that time, the naming and branding of durians was getting popular
So he named it and registered it as Raja Musang or Musang King
Later it evolved to become Mao Shang Wang
Even the original Chinese name is different from the present one (Mao becomes cat)
In the early 2000s it was first introduced to Singapore
But it was not as popular as the then Sultan Durians and price was Low
Then came the cock and bull stories in the Hong Kong media about Stanley Ho and Li Ka Shing in 2010
They brought in their private jet to fly in MSW durians they bought from Singapore
The next day prices rocketed and remain high till today