Wednesday, 27 May 2009
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What's the Strangest Food You've Ever Tried Abroad?
Whenever asked to try a new food, I’m usually up for the task (unless it’s dog meat or something similar, that is). Unfortunately though, I can’t say I’ve tried a whole lot of new foods abroad.
Of the few new foods I have tried, however, I remember finding an appetizer in Germany strange, yet very simple. The starter was a mushroom, filled at its center with goat cheese, wrapped in tinfoil and left to warm on a grill. I couldn’t decide whether I liked it or not. I had had both mushrooms and goat cheese before in the U.S., but for some reason the two warmed together gave a really unique taste.
I’m not even sure if this dish is exclusively German, but it’s the only place I’ve had it. I am guessing that there are much stranger foods out there, though. What’s the strangest food you’ve ever tried abroad? Did you like it?
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SCORPION in Beijing, China :P
It was so hard to eat it unless I closed my eyes shut coz it had so many legs like a spider. It was crunchy like popcorn
I think that while abroad the most awful and also the strangest was probably pureed sea urchin in Japan. I did get it down and keep it down but that is one thing I can live my whole life happily without. I have eaten stranger things here in the states though, but nothing that tops it for bad taste.
Tapas and Paella in Spain, One traveler would not be disappointed to find the taste of paella and tapas even in a cheap Barcelona hotel. Wines from all over Spain are also available as long as you ask where to look for them.
In Scotland I had Haggis, which is sheep intestine and other things. It had an interesting taste and I loved it!
i used to live in hk, and in most parts of asia cheese is not popular. cheesecake, therefore, is soooooooo weird to me. cheese on savory stuff like pizza, i could understand, but cheese in a dessert????????? just weirds me out.
but as i've gotten americanized, probably the weirdest thing i've eaten in china is pig blood or sparrow. chinese food definitely tops the weird food list... everywhere else in asia i've traveled, the "weird" food pales in comparison to what i've seen in china
as awful as it may sound I have to that were quite good. The first is choclate covered grasshoppers and the were REALLY good, almost like a Kit Kat bar. and the other was meal rooms and cheese powder...like cheesy chex mix...both quite good...like surprisingly delicous! :p
I tried Silkworm Larvae two weeks ago when I visited Seoul, Korea for a week. My friend hunted it down, asked the hostel worker where she can find some, and found it (surprisingly) at the convenient store in a can. It looked and smelt nasty, but the taste was actually alright. Apparently Koreans like to have it with Soju, a type of alcohol, which I also tried but not with the larvae.
BALUT
lolz
nothing like a nearly-developed chicken embryo dipped in MSG :D
american pizza in italy. it's funny because all it is is an italian style pizza with french fries on top.
A rolled up live baby octopus in Korea.
I'm quite picky when it comes to food so I haven't tried anything strange yet. I would rather starve, which I have done in the past when there's nothing good to eat. My cousin, on the contrary, is quite adventurous and she tried scorpions and snakes and all that nasty stuff...gross!
i didn't have weird food abroad, but rather in new orleans. i went to the insectarium there and they had a kitchen where you learned to cook insects safely and make them delicious. the cook made mealworm salsa, but it was hard to eat because i couldn't stand looking at the big worms. The taste was fine, like fatty meat in your salsa.
i preferred crickets better. :P
Well, it depends on "abroad" b/c I was born in Vietnam and spent the first 9 years of my life there.
I've eaten (not just tried) many food that many people here in the States would consider strange and even gross.
But the strangest to me, from my point of view, I would have to agree with @black_lie@xanga - cheesecake was just *shudder* strange. Now I eat from time to time. It's not bad.
I've never eaten dog and cat, since many people have asked me that before, but I've eaten cooked coagulated blood, intestines, tongues (pig's, cow's, chicken's), hearts, liver, tripes, ears, coagulated blood cured by lime & mixed with chopped gizzards and herbs, fish eggs, fish eyeballs, octopus, squids, chicken feet, silkworm, and many more that to me is normal but to others... strange =oD
@kimtendo@xanga - I forgot about that!!!! Yummm
Also dried squid and other dried fish toasted over an open fire. I've also had haggis which was so good!
I always force myself to try local "delicacies" when i'm abroad. Ranging from eating things like zebra & zebu in Kenya to blackened alligator steaks in Florida. However these don't really compare to the culinary delights available in South East Asia. Street vendors throughout the region offer a range of deep fried insects, scorpions, locusts, ants and bees all being very popular. To be honest if you get over the actual difficult mental process of eating these things they're not actually that bad, there's no real taste to them, just generally crunchy, although I must admit that i've never tried these things sober so I guess my taste buds are generally impaired by cigarettes and alcohol. Singapore is also a hot spot for what we would think are weird foods. If you hit the Geylang area of the city you'd be a fool not to stop by at the Eminent Frog Porridge shop, i know it may not sound appetising but it really is delicious. If you've managed to consume that without any great difficulties you can move onto other oddities such as pork spine meat soup, pig intestine soup or turtle soup. Mmmmm.......my mouth is watering at the prospect
Dog in thailand.. very stringy. They also had cat but there was no way I was going to try that!