What is the strangest asian food you have seen/heard of?!
Answers: Give me one, or a whole list if you like.
for mexican food
armadillo
for chinese food
100 year old tofu
and i heard its nasty
the pupu platter. nuff said.
mini octupus
dog...and absolutely every part of lots of animals!! pleh!
- bamboo worms fried in egg like an omelet.
- Grilled earth spiders.
- Boiled unhatched fertilized duck eggs/ chiken eggs
- boiled silk worms
- Five spices pork uterus
- Raw duck blood on cabagge salad
- Stewed Dog meat
- Field mice meat
- sautee crickets
- Durian fruit-that smell either very good or very sticky depending on the person.
- Grilled scorpions
Mongolian giant rodent, roasted whole over an open fire. I saw it on a National Geographic TV documentary.
sea cucumber - it is like a slug and it is slimy and jello-like
Chicken feet. I am not making this up my friend ordered it and it looked like chicken feet except it was in a very light gravy.
fermented tofu
Cashew Chicken with fried rice.....pretty weird huh?
Seriously-Japanese Natto is up their as one of the most bizarre. It's a very sticky fermented soybean mixture. I love to eat it on hot rice with a little soy sauce and hot mustard. Makes most gringos puke though....
escargots (even though it's french, not asian)
fried cockroaches
fried mealworms
stewed rodents
monkey brains
dog meat
and loads of other "delicacies" found in China.
it's plain nasty, gross and disgusting!
i'm chinese and i don't even wanna touch that crap.
The guy on the Travel Channel was eating bull's penises. No joke.
I've eaten chicken's feet in Korea (really rubbery, I was drinking, no doubt). I've had silkworms and the smell could make you vomit! Nasty. I was in a market in Trat, Thailand, not far from the Cambodian border and saw many questionable things. One thing that I did recognize was a large vat of boiling roaches. My wife and I dared each other to eat one, but I was gagging. No way! There are some things in Korea that someone told me they call a Dog D1ck. It's some sort of brown, um, thing that looks like, well, a penis. It's some sort of sea cucumber, but I've never eaten it. It's supposed to be good for your stamina (like all of that other crap). I've seen dogs hanging in the markets in Pusan, Korea. Not good.....
well.. the chinese cuisine has to be the wierdest.. coz its nothing like the chinese we eat outta boxes.. the eat the strangest things....
Chicken Hearts
Pig Intestines
Pumpkin Drink
Durian
Stinky Tofu
Squid Jerky
Blood Sausage
Jellyfish
Pigeon Soup
Beef Tendons
Shark's Fin Soup
Bird's Nest Soup
Cat meat
Dog meat
Bull Testicles
ohhh and the list goes on and on....
Gosh some peoples answers are interesting.. hmm
I like chicken feet.. its acctualy tasty, it depends how its been cooked though..
Strange looking food
Durian - looks like some sort of armored spiky dinosaur pod out of a sci-fi movie. The meat of the fruit stinks and it taste like rotting onions.
Rambutan - is a fruit with a red spiny covering. It looks like a baby sea urchin. The fruit is actually sweet and tasty.
I remember walking through San Francisco's Chinatown when I was younger. I've seen displays with dried seahorses and bottles with some type of elixir and strange knotty roots or dried seahorces plus other mystery bits.