What is the WEIRDEST food you've eaten?

Electrequiem · #1 June 18, 2007, 05:32 PM

Just like the title says ... what is the most bizarre food that you've eaten?

I'll start: Balut. God, I couldn't stand it.

OK, So i was a little inspired by the Horse Milk thread by P. Warner

sandpiper · #2 June 18, 2007, 05:41 PM

mama halim

shaad · #3 June 18, 2007, 05:54 PM

Hard to choose between them:

Ostrich egg omelette
Kangaroo carpaccio
Crocodile jerky

Two items I saw but couldn't bring myself to sample:

It was called camel's milk yogurt and presumably it had a live replicating culture, because it was quivering in its bowl.

At a Korean seafood place in the SF Bay Area, they once served freshly cut octopus tentacles that were still moving.

Nocturnal · #4 June 18, 2007, 06:56 PM

Fried Calamari - Baby Squid
it's one of my fav sea food

Nafis_BD · #5 June 18, 2007, 07:05 PM

I forgot the name of it but it was basically a shrimp salad.Tasted really weird!! I never saw one of those anywhere else than the chinese restaurant I went to....also forgot the restaurants name!!!!!

Sohel · #6 June 18, 2007, 07:10 PM

Dried, deep-fried insects seasoned with chili and lime in Oaxaca, Mexico. Unique, crunchy taste.

Hatebreed · #7 June 18, 2007, 07:21 PM

Probably squid, or mussels.

Not very weird I know. I love seafood, but I haven't really tried any weird meat or eggs yet.

Electrequiem · #8 June 18, 2007, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sohel NR
Dried, deep-fried insects seasoned with chili and lime in Oaxaca, Mexico. Unique, crunchy taste.

AS long as you didnt drink the water in Mexico.

Seriously, here in the US, they make drinking water in a foreign country a BIG deal. It annoys me.

Navarene · #9 June 18, 2007, 07:52 PM

Horse Liver with cheese on top, sliced into pieces and served with bread in the form of sandwich in central europe...commonly eaten in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Nafis_BD · #10 June 18, 2007, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Navarene
Horse Liver with cheese on top, sliced into pieces and served with bread in the form of sandwich in central europe...commonly eaten in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

A question to the members "Isn't horse meat haram??"

Kabir · #11 June 18, 2007, 07:56 PM

I never tired such exotic food like you did, but mine's quite simple. Someone we know made a pineapple khir...which turned the whole dish into GREEN. Somehow, the person who made it was quite excited about it. I didn't have the courage to taste it. Coz I'm not rude enough to throw up in front of her.

Kabir · #12 June 18, 2007, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Nafis_BD
A question to the members "Isn't horse meat haram??"

Doesn't matter, does it? The question is about weird food, it's not about weird halal food!

shaad · #13 June 18, 2007, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Nafis_BD
A question to the members "Isn't horse meat haram??"

The experts can answer this, but I seem to remember it being allowed in conditions of war or starvation.

Electrequiem · #14 June 18, 2007, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by shaad
The experts can answer this, but I seem to remember it being allowed in conditions of war or starvation.

I also think pig/alcohol/any other strictly forbidden food is permissible to be consumed when facing starvation, as protecting the gift of Life is one of the most important duties of a Muslim.

**Mahmood** · #15 June 18, 2007, 08:03 PM

Frog, Aligator, muscles.

Never eaten pork. Will never try oysters. Anything else, I am game.

Nafis_BD · #16 June 18, 2007, 08:05 PM

Thanks guys!!

ialbd · #17 June 18, 2007, 08:39 PM

it'll go as far as Sushi for me....

shaad · #18 June 18, 2007, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ialbd
it'll go as far as Sushi for me....

Speaking of which, are there any Sushi/Sashimi places in Dhaka now?

And does anyone have a good recipe for smoked hilsa (ilish)? The Dhaka Club used to prepare an excellent example of this dish.

ialbd · #19 June 18, 2007, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by shaad
Speaking of which, are there any Sushi/Sashimi places in Dhaka now?

dont know for sure, but i keep hearing abt a new japanese place in dhaka (nothing abt sushi), maybe our dhaka members can enlighten us.....

Trigger_Tiger · #20 June 18, 2007, 11:01 PM

Crocodile Jerky in Kansas City Missouri

!!!!!

sunny747 · #21 June 19, 2007, 01:20 AM

i forgot the name of the food but the weirdess food i had in vietnam..
it's like a chicken soup with boiled egg...but the egg has taken out from the nest just a day b4 it was hatched. So while eating you would see a very small boiled chicken coming from the egg with a soft feather.....u just eat the whole thing. Vietnamies sayz it is very good for knee and thats the reason why they have the strongest knee. I just had it once in Hanoi and i kind of felt pity for the tiny chicken.

and there was another food i have seen there. I forgot the name as well. The whole bird nest is a food. Birds make those nest with hay and with their salive which is used as a glue to stick those hay. i didn't dare eating that though.

Sohel · #22 June 19, 2007, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by ialbd
dont know for sure, but i keep hearing abt a new japanese place in dhaka (nothing abt sushi), maybe our dhaka members can enlighten us.....

Samdado in Gulshan is the best IMHO.

Sohel · #23 June 19, 2007, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by shaad
... At a Korean seafood place in the SF Bay Area, they once served freshly cut octopus tentacles that were still moving.

Koryo Restaurant in Oakland by any chance ?

Sohel · #24 June 19, 2007, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Electrequiem
AS long as you didnt drink the water in Mexico.

Seriously, here in the US, they make drinking water in a foreign country a BIG deal. It annoys me.

The tap water in Mexico is no worse than the WASA variety in Dhaka, I drink from niether tap. Carry an industrial size bottle of Pepto Bismal if you have to, but the food in Mexico, especially Oaxaca, is out of this world.

Sohel · #25 June 19, 2007, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by sunny747
i forgot the name of the food but the weirdess food i had in vietnam..
it's like a chicken soup with boiled egg...but the egg has taken out from the nest just a day b4 it was hatched. So while eating you would see a very small boiled chicken coming from the egg with a soft feather.....u just eat the whole thing. Vietnamies sayz it is very good for knee and thats the reason why they have the strongest knee. I just had it once in Hanoi and i kind of felt pity for the tiny chicken.

and there was another food i have seen there. I forgot the name as well. The whole bird nest is a food. Birds make those nest with hay and with their salive which is used as a glue to stick those hay. i didn't dare eating that though.

I had the deep fried "gaping fish" in Hue, Vietnam. The telapia was deep-fried in a special batter mixed with the famous local lager, and served with the head still gasping for breath. I think you can get a similar dish in some of the Chinese back alleys in BKK also.