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May 29, 2016
Satisfies my craving for durian
This was my first experience with freeze dried durian so first, I must say something about the texture if you haven't had something like this before, as it may be the one thing that prevents someone from enjoying this. It's lightweight like styrofoam, initially hard when you bite into it but then it crumbles into smaller dry pieces and bits of dust in your mouth that disintegrate on your tongue with moisture. That's when the durian flavor hits. Calling this "fruit chips" is a bit of a misnomer because these are not in chip form. And this is probably the furthest you can get from the texture of a real ripened juciy fruit. But the flavor is unmistakably durian, and if that's what you are craving, this should satisfy it. I love it. As for value, I find it to be quite expensive online, but this was the best value I could find for a single unit.
May 29, 2017
A great pen for drawing/sketching and calligraphy
3 of 3 found this helpful The two versions of the Sailor Fude de Mannen Fountain Pens are very popular because of their unique bent-tipped nibs, which allow for an incredible amount of line variation in a fairly cheap, refillable pen. There aren't a lot of options in this price range for pens that can offer the amount of line variation these pens do. The two different styles - each has a different color body - has a nib bent at a different angle. Writing with the tip of the pen - with the pen at its most perpendicular angle to the page - will create a very fine line. As you angle the pen from 90 degrees perpendicular to the page down towards 45 degrees, your line will get increasingly thicker until it reaches the thickest line it can make, which looks more like a brush mark or a Sharpie marker. This is why these pens are great for calligraphy. They are made to somewhat simulate a brush stroke. Sailor also makes a converter, the SAILOR 14-0500-000, which fits in these pens, so that you can use whatever ink you'd like instead of cartridges.