Welcome to Quest for Durian


Cultural immersion travel guides for people who eat first and sightsee second. I grew up on Malaysian food, spent my 20s living across Asia, and have been going back to Japan since 2001. These guides are built on decades of actual time on the ground.
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About Me


I’m Agni β€” travel blogger, Doctor of TCM, and a Canadian with European + Chinese-Malaysian roots who’s spent 41 years eating and wandering across 40+ countries. I’ve lived in six of them. My guides are built on actual time on the ground, not a long weekend.

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