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Exotic Foods...Have you tried it?

wildsail
#1
I would like to know if anyone have ever dared to try some local exotic foods like balut, chicken feet, crunchy cricket and frog legs.

Dare to try? Share us some of you experiences and their tastes like for those who would like to give it a try.
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HaileyinHongKong
#2
I grew up on hot dogs and chili cheese fries.  What's more exotic than that?
globetrotter
#3
My husband and I ate several fried insects in Thailand.
And I know he ate snake and frog (not only the legs) in China.
He always tries anything and still he only got sick once in India (and not me, to my surprise...), so I say try, if only a small piece. Be adventurous.
beppi
#4
The ones I tried:
Chicken feet = nothing but skin and bones
Bat = chewy, dark meat with not much taste
Snake = like chicken meat with fish bones
Frog = like chicken with tiny bones
Crocodile = a very tough version of chicken
Fried maggots = I refused to even try when offered ...
Live fishes in (cold) soup = I was told to swallow without chewing, but again I refused ...
Smelly tofu = smells like a rubbish dump (or worse), tastes the same as normal tofu (if you plug your nose)
Durian = the only fruit that rots before it ripens, I had to burp up the strange flavour for hours afterwards
But the more interesting foods were the many exotic vegetables and herbs I look for wherever I go. Most have no English name or Western equivalent.
JasfurJQ
#5
good for you beppi, i'm a filipino but i never tried to eat such cuisine.I don't even eat much of pigs or porks. I rather be a vegetarian.
haggishunter
#6
what about haggis :top:
wildsail
#7
Mmmmmm

bat, crocs, maggots??? whoa! what a delectable list you have, Beppi

Haggishunter-tell us more about haggis
beppi
#8
Haggis?!?
No please, I do have my limits!
Fred
#9

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

I grew up on hot dogs and chili cheese fries.  What's more exotic than that?


Korean dogs in a spicy sauce?

Food - If it's mooed, baaed, meowed or woofed, I'll try it but don't try to feed my mucky rabbit food.

Horse was quite nice.

haggishunter
#10
Haggis is scotland national dish
globetrotter
#11
I love horse and rabbit. It's quite common in Belgium. Not very exotic (to me anyway).
Fred
#12

haggishunter wrote:

Haggis is scotland national dish


I used to have it a lot. New year's eve wouldn't be the same without haggis and neeps in a we dram.

Of course, that pleasure is off the menu now.

haggishunter
#13
Fred there a shop here in edinburgh i think that makes halal haggis :D
Fred
#14

haggishunter wrote:

Fred there a shop here in edinburgh i think that makes halal haggis :D


A great pity it's impossible to post out here.

haggishunter
#15
yup... more for meeeeeeee :P:joking:
jazzy851
#16

Mmmmmm

bat, crocs, maggots??? whoa! what a delectable list you have, Beppi


errr yuk!! :sick

HaileyinHongKong
#17
I would eat haggis if the only other option was to die a slow painful death.

I feel the same way about McDonalds.
haggishunter
#18
what wrong with haggis
jazzy851
#19

I feel the same way about McDonalds.


:lol:

HaileyinHongKong
#20

haggishunter wrote:

what wrong with haggis


Everything.

HaileyinHongKong
#21

jazzy851 wrote:

I feel the same way about McDonalds.


:lol:


There are more McDonalds here than anything else.  They're practically on every corner.

H
#22
ive eaten:
-jellyfish
-frog legs
-shark fin soup
-fried earthworm (just a small one.. they put it on an egg with some peruvian spice mix)
-broiled pig intestines
-fried pig intestine stuffed with shrimp
-chicken feet with black beans
-pigs blood hot pot
-balut egg
-cow tongue (every sunday in my mom's house, not as bad as it sounds)
-taro root jelly with mini shrimp on top
-durian
-lychees
-frozen jackfruit...thats all i can think of :P


has anyone ever heard of "live lobster sashimi" or "live fried fish"? you should youtube both, its crazy! they chop the lobster in half, and then make a quick sashimi out of the tail then put the other LIVING half on your plate so u can see its head and eyes moving while u eat its body, its so gross! and the fish they just deep fry the middle part and the head is like still moving around while u pull the meat off the bones...really nasty.

im vegetarian now by the way lol :D
H
#23
haha its true! :lol:  if they only knew what goes into mystery meat chili and hot dogs :shudder:

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

I grew up on hot dogs and chili cheese fries.  What's more exotic than that?

H
#24

beppi wrote:

The ones I tried:
Bat = chewy, dark meat with not much taste


in what country did you eat bat? :)

beppi
#25

HPG wrote:
beppi wrote:

The ones I tried:
Bat = chewy, dark meat with not much taste


in what country did you eat bat? :)


Southern China
They eat everything with four legs, except tables, and everything with wings, except airplanes.

H
#26
beppi- haha  :D  yes its true... i was living with a chinese family for 3 years and thats why i ate all those things too (minus the tongue and worm :P )
HaileyinHongKong
#27
Durian is something I just can't try.  I can't believe the first person who ever ate it said, "It's covered in spikes and smells like death.  I think I'll eat it."
haggishunter
#28
I want black pudding on a roll, covered in sauce:D
haggishunter
#29
In pakistan i tried a pudding....it was like noodles with frog spawn on top..it was all right :huh:
H
#30

haggishunter wrote:

what wrong with haggis


No offense but seriously, I cant figure out how it tastes like.. But since i like scots, i might give it a try.:-)

H
#31
We have this dish called 'dinuguan' which is made up of pork's intestines and blood. A vampire's dish i guess!!:-)
haggishunter
#32
right now i want a black pudding on a roll
kiwiinkorea
#33
Have tried lots of strange dishes, always keen for something new.

Have eaten: snake, dog, crocodile, chicken feet, snails, sheeps eyes but yet to try frogs legs or scorpions, on the 'to do' list.
Epicuriousannie
#34
I love to try new,unusual things from time to time. So here's the list of exotic food I've tried ;
- Bats
- Pigeon
- Frog
- Durian
- Snake
- Grasshoper
- Stinky tofu
- Duck Tongue
- Chicken feet (a favorite!)
- Snails
- Sea urchin

That's all what I can remember :D
H
#35
ohh yes i had duck tongue also! forgot about that :)
duck tongues with rice

Sophie Fisher wrote:

I love to try new,unusual things from time to time. So here's the list of exotic food I've tried ;
- Bats
- Pigeon
- Frog
- Durian
- Snake
- Grasshoper
- Stinky tofu
- Duck Tongue
- Chicken feet (a favorite!)
- Snails
- Sea urchin

That's all what I can remember :D

Epicuriousannie
#36
I only tried the tip of it though. Haha. The texture is just... unpleasant. lol
haggishunter
#37
:offtopic: yuck yuck and yuck
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Primadonna
#38

haggishunter wrote:

:offtopic: yuck yuck and yuck


:D that was my thought too

pitipiti
#39
I've had chicken feet soup loved them.
someoneilike
#40
I love chicken feet soup...
And tried eating bat for healing my asthma
Laron goreng/ Alates fried
Cingur salad is one of the traditional foods that are easily found in the area of ​​East Java, especially Surabaya native region. In the Java language cingur word meaning "mouth", this refers to the material or muzzle the mouth slices of boiled beef and mixed into the dish.
In various regions of Indonesia, almost all parts of offal cooked for human food. Examples include (chicken & sapi) brain, lungs, fried intestines, tongue, and so on.
Yes Sophie, snails, in my village snails is very famous, west java.

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