Everyone in Singapore knows you cannot bring a durian into public transport because, for some weird reason, some people think durians are smelly.
(Are they even human?)
However, it seems like Hong Kong singer Kelly Chen isn’t aware of that rule.
Kelly Chen & Entourage Finished Up Durians Outside Airport After Realizing They Were Banned on Planes
On 29 March, during Chen’s Season 2 World Tour concert in Genting Highlands, she recounted her initial encounter with Musang King durians in Malaysia, expressing her love for the king of fruits.
Chen and her team, eager to bring the fruit back to Hong Kong, packed their luggage with durians.
Yes, luggage filled with durians.
However, upon reaching the airport, the staff stopped them.
Chen was then informed that durians were prohibited on flights.
Refusing to waste the fruit, Chen and her entourage swiftly consumed the durians outside the airport.
That must have been the best moment of her tour.
She jokingly admitted her newfound knowledge about vacuum-packing durians and playfully requested her fans to purchase some for her, a request they happily fulfilled…in the form of a cake.
On 2 April 2024, Chen posted a photo with a durian cake, thanking her Malaysian fans for the thoughtful gift.
Well, someone please tell Chen that you really cannot replace durians with durian cakes.
Kelly Chen, whose birth name is Vivian Chen Wai-man, was born on 13 September 1972 in Hong Kong.
She began her entertainment career in the mid-1990s, first appearing in a music video for Jacky Cheung in 1994 and making her film debut in 1995.
Chen quickly rose to fame in the East Asian entertainment industry, releasing nearly 20 million records across 38 albums. Back then, she was referred to as the “Diva of Asia” due to her immense popularity.
Some of Chen’s major accomplishments include winning the “Asian Pacific Most Popular Hong Kong Female Artist” award at the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards in 2002 and 2003, becoming the first Asian spokesperson for Dior in 2004, being chosen as a “Famous Outstanding Young Person of the World” by Junior Chamber International in 2004, and being voted the “CCTV Most Popular Female Singer” by 45 million Chinese people in 2004.
She kicked off her Season 2 World Tour in Macau in September 2023, followed by Las Vegas, Toronto, Guangzhou, and Shanghai.