Do your country have any strange foods?

thousand-year-egg
@youless (112113)
Guangzhou, China
October 24, 2016 9:40pm CST
I think thousand-year-egg will be ranked the first strange food to foreigners. Although actually this is just a very common food for us. Most of the time we use it to make the congee. I think every country may also have its strange food to foreigners. Such as the fermented fish from Sweden. What's yours?
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
25 Oct 16
This is what we have here. This is called Balut. Balut is a Filipino street food made by hard-boiling a fertilized and incubated duck egg.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
I think this will be a challenge for me
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@AkoPinay (11544)
• Philippines
25 Oct 16
@youless it tastes good! I eat the younger one with few hairs but if it's as old as in this photo I will only eat the yellow part
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
25 Oct 16
@youless I have never tasted it . I can't even take the look of it.. It really sucks.
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@AkoPinay (11544)
• Philippines
25 Oct 16
We have many like python adobo, monitor lizard, etc. but the most popular is "balut". I ate this with vinegar, Salt and ground pepper. Yum! I don't like the older one.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
Your photo is better and less horrible than the photo from @magallon
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@AkoPinay (11544)
• Philippines
25 Oct 16
@youless yeah
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
25 Oct 16
Pickled pigs feet. Southerners pickle just about anything they can fit in a pickle jar ,which is weird in itself.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
26 Oct 16
Does it taste sour? What color is it?
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
26 Oct 16
LOL its good :)
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
26 Oct 16
@youless Its skinned pig foot pickled in a vinegar brine and red food color. it tastes like ham soaked in vinegar.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
25 Oct 16
To find something that smells as strong as your thousand year old eggs or the Surstromming in Sweden, I see only a few cheeses in France. I would have bet that the winner would have been Munster, but English scientists smelled our cheeses with an electronic nose and asked the opinion of 19 UK experts in 2004, and the winner is called Vieux-Boulogne. It is a cheese produced with crude cow milk in Northern France coming from cows brazing near the sea between 2 capes, one called Blanc-Nez, "White Nose", and the other Gris-Nez, "Gray Nose" : sometimes reality surpasses fiction.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
Is this cheese popular? By the way, our thousand year old eggs don't have any smells at all. Its look may be horrible for you but it is not smelling. It is not like the smelling tofu.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
25 Oct 16
@youless The yellow part of the Chinese eggs I have tasted here were smelling sulfur and ammoniac. We have more than 300 cheeses, and this one is not very popular. I am not sure that it is the one with the stronger smell, but it was among all cheeses that they smelled "scientifically".
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Oct 16
Oh century egg ! I have tasted that , when my father bought some for us to taste . Here , we have the so called balut - some days old chick in still egg form , boiled . A lot think it's gross including the foreigner , but once they taste how delicious it is , they will like it . They just don't like to look at it though .
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
How do you think about the century egg?
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Oct 16
@youless I don't like the taste .
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
25 Oct 16
Nothing comes to my mind for what concerns Switzerland. In Italy the weirdest in my opinion is the Casu Marzu The English translation is "rotten/putrid cheese". Some larvae are introduced in the cheese and they give to the cheese a very creamy texture. I will stop here.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
As to the rotten cheese, I think I had tasted it before. Is it something like the blue cheese?
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
25 Oct 16
@youless No, not at all, I think you can only find the cheese in Italy. it's a Pecorino cheese and you can see the maggots jump when you cut it. Horrible.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
26 Oct 16
Oh hell no
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
25 Oct 16
I don't know... But I guess some people would think of vegemite as strange and need some getting used to in order to acquire its taste... It's a yeast extract spread...
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
I checked it via the net. It is very salty and a little bit bitter. I may not get used to it but I'd like to try to make my final judgement
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@jstory07 (134460)
• Roseburg, Oregon
25 Oct 16
The restaurants are getting strange They serve hamburgers with an egg on it. All kinds of foods with bacon bits on it. Such at hot fudge sundae with bacon on the top.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
Oh... Here in the McDonald's some hamburgers have eggs inside
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
25 Oct 16
First of all, do you really eat eggs that are that old? Some people here in the south (USA) eat pig's feet, pig's tongue, pork or chicken brains, and cheese in their coffee. I'm not one of them.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
In fact these eggs may be months old
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
25 Oct 16
@youless Still, don't they make you sick?
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
@1creekgirl Not at all.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
26 Oct 16
I have no idea what is weird here. I got one cow tongue, they boil it, slice it and fry it, and no I do not eat it!!!!
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
26 Oct 16
The cow tongue could be a dish here. It is delicious. Actually you wouldn't even know it is made from cow tongue
@Jenning (2016)
• Nigeria
25 Oct 16
Ya, we gat many...Lol. I can call them Ghost foods @Ghostdmo
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
26 Oct 16
I am curious to how the ghost foods look like
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@Jenning (2016)
• Nigeria
26 Oct 16
@youless Hahahahaha Ghost foods are very strange food we have here in my country, of which if you taste, o my Gad, you can forget your name.....
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@Jenning (2016)
• Nigeria
26 Oct 16
@Ghostdmo I'm sure you have some for us. Lolz
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@Ayuriny (5144)
• Denpasar, Indonesia
25 Oct 16
In Bali island, we have one strange food named 'Lawar'. It's so bizarre that I never dare to try it. It is a kind of salad made from young unripe jackfruit, coconut, string beans spiced with shrimp paste, turmeric, galangal, and other exotic spices. However what makes it so bizarre is its key ingredient used is raw pig’s blood – that’s how the dish got its reddish colour.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
@Ayuriny Oh... It will be hard to try it since it is the fresh blood... But I may consider to challenge it if the offer is $10,000
@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Oct 16
Does it use the fresh pig's blood? Since this dish seems to be so fresh red?
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@Ayuriny (5144)
• Denpasar, Indonesia
25 Oct 16
@youless Exactly. Eventhough someone offers me $ 1,000 I won't try it.
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