Weird Delicacies, anyone?
By vingyan06
@vingyan06 (2486)
Malaysia
October 25, 2009 10:26am CST
Have you try any delicacies before? I have seen a traveling program introduce many weird and strange delicacies around the world. There are live octopus, food with fangs, fried tarantulas, snake wine and the list is never end.
Traveling is often for trying the unusual and attempting to experience the different culture of the country you are visiting. One of the best ways is to try the foods the native people eat.
These food may not be everyone’s tastes, whilst the food considered weird and bizarre to some of us, are considered delicious delicacies for others.
What do you like about weird delicacies?
Please share some of the weird delicacies you know, perhaps it is something you have tried before.
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9 responses
@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
27 Oct 09
vingyan.. if you have done some China trips, you will be guided to some of those weird food that you mentioned.. I was once taken to these kind of shop and I just refuse to enter!!
The one that I had before was only snake meals, and that was in Bangkok.
No way I am going to try those fried grasshopper, ants, and others as I am not up to that extend to explore food yet!
@ladym33 (10978)
• United States
26 Oct 09
I have to admit I have no tried very many exotic foods. Probably the most risky things I have ever eaten is squid and octopus. I actually found them to be pretty tasty, but I bet in some cultures they are not odd at all. You can find them at restauarants here in America, not very often but they can be found. They are quite chewy but not bad tasting at all.
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
26 Oct 09
No thanks… they look better on TV, I wouldn’t like to try them out! I have really watched some weird food being eaten…from ant paste to snake blood to every other thing you mention. I know these are delicacies in their respective countries but I’m not brave enough to try.
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
26 Oct 09
Many of my favorite foods are strange to others, who say "ewwww" I will not eat that. An example is beef tongue. I cook it with bay leaves and cloves and then add a little soy sauce after it is cooked. I also eat plants that most people I know consider weeds, such as purslane and lambsquarters. While they are pulling purslane out of their gardens and throwing it away, I grow mine as fast as I can and never have enough to eat. It is excellent in soup, but also good fresh in a salad with other greens.
@neelianoscet (9615)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
I have tried eating Balut or the 6 week old duck egg, the monitor lizard, frog legs, wild boar, carabao and the tree bat. Those are the types of exotic delicacies which I have taste when i was still a child as i could not compare what the difference between the commercial meat as I was still young then. Anything which is given to me as long as it taste good i eat. Now, that I am already grown up, I rarely eat it unless their is a challenges. Maybe,I would eat it again as a betting processes as a sort of fun with my friends.
@jemaries (321)
• Saudi Arabia
26 Oct 09
Its not actually weird it exotic delicacies.Like here in the philippines there are some places cooked exotic foods like snail, spider, grasshopper,worm from the trees, these are actually cleaned and fresh.And this kind of food is very expensive because its very rare to find this kind of food.
But when i was young i remember my grandfather cooked for us a wild boar,snake,rats,alligator in the farm.They are very delicious you cannot notice its a rat or alligator because they taste same like chicken.Also the snail with soy sauce its very delicious.
@kykidd (6812)
• United States
26 Oct 09
Well, I don't know if it would be considered a delacacy or not, but one of my favorite foods is pickled pigs feet. Everyone else that I know, except my family, thinks this is very strange. I don't think I know of anyone outside of the family that even likes it.
I have eaten octopus before, but it wasn't live. Thank goodness. I don't think that you would catch me too close to a live octopus. I am known as a person who scared of most things that are live. Especially something with 8 legs. I would be afraid that it might try to grab ahold and eat me instead of me eating it. LOL
I found this a very interesting discussion you have started here vingyan. Hope you have a wonderful day!
@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
25 Oct 09
How about grasshoppers make with scrambled eggs. Snake blood drink it when it still warm. and frog legs. Live fish dump into a hot pot, and cook it fresh and alive. Those are weird delicacies I saw on the internet. They are great tastes I think. Because I saw people eat with great pleasure.
@climber7565 (2566)
• United States
26 Oct 09
oh I think at some point is good to be open minded to learn and embrace antropology, but still just because some things are delicacies to some does not mean they should be to us. Considering how crazy some people are, you still have to use your common sense and our God given five senses to do what is right to you.
