Comments on: Weird Food

By: szssgy

szssgy — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:50:20 +0000

delicious food

By: Brighid

Brighid — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:33:32 +0000

I saw people eating seahorses and starfish in china… I can’t imagine how to actually eat those :s

By: Kath

Kath — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:50:40 +0000

I didn’t know such weird taste treats existed! Sea urchin sushi is as far as I’ve gone. (Ain’t it grand to be Irish!)

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:57:25 +0000

Well, I’m half mexican, half nicaraguan. Visiting my grand parents in Managua my cousins tricked me into eating armadillo and iguana, which they wouldn’t touch. They’re actually delicious. I also found out I’m allergic to ants by eating them dipped in chocolate in southern mexico… let’s see… I’ve also tried a variety of insects traveling through mexico, like maguey worms (they taste like butter and nuts), crickets (amazingly lemonny) and ant larvae (nutty, too)…. oooo and let’s not forget river crabs. They’re called alcauciles here, and are pretty much the missing linkbetween the cockroach and the softshell crab….

I guess it’s better to try this shit and actually have some evidence before stating an opinion

You only live once!

Ps…. rattlesnake in northern mexican mountains is also great

By: Hanna

Hanna — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:36:10 +0000

Hi,

I just wanted to add a few more weird Korean foods:

1) Silkworm larva. They’re boiled in a big pot, and their odor is one thing I can count on to gross out any and all of my friends who come visit.

2) Sparrow. Yes, as in the little bird. I think it’s much less common now than it was in the past. You’re supposed to just crunch through the whole thing, although the head was left out of the eating in my group.

3) Cow or pig intestines. It’s normally fried on a pan at your table.

4) As aforementioned, chicken cast-offs. I’d like to add chicken gullets, simply because the Korean name threw me off the first time. Literally translated, it’s something like “poop house”.

And as an aside, is it an East Asian thing to believe in certain foods as “good for your skin”? Impossible beauty marketing seems to thrive in Korea. Example? “Drink this corn husk tea! It’ll give you cheekbones/melt away chipmunk cheeks!” (Rough translation as they actually like to use the term “V-line”.)

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:31:19 +0000

(3) & (4)
Hashima and ‘bird’s nest’ aka swallow spit = I .. actually quite like those. The items themselves are tasteless, its the broth/syrup whatever that I like. I never knew what Hashima was, and when I did – I just let it process in my mind, and carried on eating.

Dried Fish Floating Bladder – Love this in the steamboat – chicken stock, cabbage, fishballs, meatball, mushrooms, sea cucumber and the fish floater. Yum.
Yesh – I love sea cucumber as well.

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By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:51:25 +0000

Hmm, I lived in Korea for over 4 years while teaching English and got to eat a whole lot of weird food. I ate stranger food than my wife who is Korean.
1. Dog. Let’s not get hasty here folks. They raise a breed of dog that is used for boshintang and other dog stews. Supposedly good for “stamina” and many other health issues. I never heard of anyone being helped by it. So, get over it, they’ve been eating it for a looong time. On another note, look back in the history books and see what the Norweigians ate when they won the race to the South Pole. Can you guess what type of “power” the Norwegians used for their sleds?! Yep, dogs. Can you guess what happened to the doggies who perished? Yep, they were made into a stew that the explorers and the other dogs ate.
2. Sea slug, sea cucumber, sea, aww hell, if it was oozing across the sea floor, it was in a tank to be on a dinner plate. Although the live octopus is still one of my favorites in the fish markets. They take a live octopus, hack the tentacles off and put them on a searing hot plate and deliver the plate to your table. The tentacles are still squirming on the hot plate. Make sure to crunch down on them or they will stick to the sides of your mouth.
3. Not in the weird dept, but one of the tastiest. Free-range, grass fed hogs from Cheju Island. Man, too tasty to even write about. The hogs run around eating the sweetgrass on the farms. Anyways, sliced thin and eaten Korean style.
4. Kangaroo in Sydney. Very red, dry, meat. Kinda like mutton.
5. I had the fish egg sac soup in Korea until I just couldn’t take it anymore. I can’t stand the sight or smell of the stuff. Wife and her folks love it, makes me want to blech everywhere.
6. Of course, the late night drinking street food, chicken feet, grilled chicken innards/gizzards, intestines, and other parts of the beast/fowl that you don’t find in the supermarket.
That’s all I can think of in this short break that I ate whil living in Korea and traveling around Asia.
Keep up the great work Jaden. I love your writing style and great recipes you provide.
Thanks,

By: Claudia (cook eat FRET)

Claudia (cook eat FRET) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:17:04 +0000

just read this
and jaden?
you TOTALLY FUCKING WIN