Some idiot made a celeriac panna cotta at a restaurant I worked at. That's probably the worst thing I've eaten.
Durian is great but even the Indonesians and Malaysians I know don't eat it more than a few times a year. It has a subtle tropical fruit taste that you don't get anywhere else. The dominant flavour and texture is of rotting onions though, no getting around that.
Jerome, even though the fruit is enormous there's only a little bit of pulp inside. And you can freeze it in an airtight container, the whole fruit is frozen before shipping anyway.
Hydromorphine, try some asian grocery stores, they often have them in a freezer, especially if the owners are Indonesian.