Each country has their own traditional dishes like
England’s roast dinner,
Spain’s paella and
Italy’s lasagne; however there are
some countries that have more unusual delicacies. We might not fully understand
right now why there are people around the world who would eat just about everything.
Here’s a look at this list of 10 bizarre foods from around the world and see if
your perspective on trying international cuisine doesn’t change. You had
probably never eat any of these top 10 bizarre foods, most of them are popular
in their respective regions for pretty good reasons.
See also these articles:
http://afkra.blogspot.com/2012/01/worlds-most-bizarre-food.html
http://afkra.blogspot.com/2011/12/worlds-most-disgusting-food.html
This Scottish dish contains the internal organs of a sheep,
including the liver, heart, and lungs. Mix this with some chopped onions, raw
beef or mutton’s fat, salt, and spices. Mixed with stock and traditionally
encased in the animal’s stomach and simmered for approximately three hours.
Most modern commercial haggis is prepared in a sausage casing rather than an
actual stomach.
Yak Penis
Yak penis is a Chinese delicacy and is also known as “Dragon
in the Flame of Desire”. It is most commonly served in the Guolizhuang
Restaurant in
Beijing
which is famous for serving penis and testicle dishes, the yak penis dish is
very popular as it is supposed to be very good for skin!
Fried-Brain Sandwich
A fried-brain sandwich is generally a sandwich with sliced
calves’ brains on sliced bread. Long before the era of Mad-Cow Disease, a
sandwich made from fried calves’ brain, thinly sliced on white bread was a
common item on the menus in
St. Louis,
Missouri, USA.
The sandwich is still available in the
Ohio River Valley,
where the brains are now heavily battered and served on hamburger buns. In
El Salvador and
Mexico beef brains, lovingly called
sesos in Spanish, are used in tacos and burritos. Brains from cows over 30
months old at slaughter are no longer permitted in human food in the
United States.
Some restaurants have taken to serving pigs’ brains instead of cows’ brains due
to Mad-Cow Disease.
Fugu
Fugu is the Japanese word for the poisonous puffer fish,
filled with enough of the poison tetrodotoxin to be lethal. Only
specially-trained chefs, who undergo two to three years of training and have
passed an official test, can prepare the fish. Some chefs will choose to leave
a minute amount of poison in the fish to cause a tingling sensation on the
tongue and lips as fugu can be quite bland. Perhaps the fuss of fugu is more in
surviving the experience than the actual taste of the deadly fish.
Sannakji
Sannakji or sannakji hoe is a variety of hoe, or raw dish,
in Korean cuisine. It consists of live nakji (a small octopus) that has been
cut into small pieces and served immediately, usually lightly seasoned with
sesame and sesame oil. The nakji pieces are usually still squirming on the
plate when this dish is served and, if not chewed carefully, the tiny suction
cups can stick to the mouth and throat. This is not a dish for the
fainthearted.
Balut
Balut seemes to be on every strong and bizarre foods list,
One of the most popular dishes in the
Philippines, where it is commonly
sold as streetfood. A balut is a fertilized (mostly half fertilized) duck or
chicken embryo that is boiled and eaten in the shell. As unappealing as
half-developed ducklings are, balut is high in protein and also, an
aphrodisiac. It’s up to you to decide if that’s all worth it, but if it’s any
consolation, the people who’ve tried balut say it tastes much better than it
looks. These are common food in countries in Southeast Asia, such as
Laos,
Cambodia
and
Vietnam.
These are often served with beer.
Fried Spider
Fried spider is a regional delicacy in
Cambodia. In
the Cambodian town of
Skuon
the vending of fried spiders as a specialty snack is a popular attraction for
tourists passing through this town. Spiders are also available elsewhere in
Cambodia. These
spiders are fried from a species of tarantula that is about the size of a human
palm. Typically only the legs are eaten, with mixed reviews on eating the
abdomen.
Rocky Mountain Oysters
It is a well-known novelty dish in parts of the American
West and
Western Canada where cattle ranching
is prevalent and castration of young animals is common.
Rocky Mountain
oysters are bull calf testicles used for human consumption. Sometimes pig or
sheep testicles are used. They are often deep-fried after being peeled, coated
in flour, pepper and salt, and sometimes pounded flat. This delicacy is most
often served as an appetizer with a cocktail sauce dip.
Tuna Eyeball
These type of foods Commonly eaten in
China and
Japan. Tuna Eye can be found
staring up at you in most Japanese stores for less than a Pound. In
Japan, the dish
is served fried with garlic and soya sauce. Apparently it tastes a bit like
squid and the eyeball comes surrounded by fish fat and severed muscles that are
also meant to be quite tasty. To cook, you simply boil it and then season to
taste.
Chicken Cartilage
Chicken cartilage no doubt one of the most bizarre foods, is
commonly served in bars in
Japan
as a tasty snack. It can be eaten fried or on a shish kabob. The texture is
very chewy and sometimes can take quite a few mouthfuls to break it up properly.
Source : http://www.wonderslist.com
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