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Strangest/most exotic thing you've eaten.

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Duck tongues - China

duck bill (you have to put the whole thing in your mouth and spit out the bones) - China

chicken gizzards - China

mystery meat (to this day still don't know what it was) - China

clover (like the Irish stuff) - China

shark fin stir fried with chrysanthemums - China

horse, frog legs and snails - France, where else?

warthog, kudu - S. Africa, delicious especially kudu carpaccio

Birds nest - Hong Kong

oh yes, and 1000 year old eggs, pickled in lye, how absolutely fantastic they are!

Huguenot

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Hmm... yep China's pretty bizarre. Eating obscure things profers status, so it's a culinary art!


I had dog penis, and Bird's Nest Soup (which is mainly sparrow vomit in milk). I actually saw guys harvesting the nests in Borneo just before Christmas. 150 metres up on the roof of a cave balanced on 15cm wide bamboo ladders that balanced on each other. It was so precarious I almost sh@t myself watching.


I had a mate who had mouse foetus straight from the uterus (apologies to the sensitive amongst us), but I opted out.


Plenty of cat, which was interchangeable with pork and chicken in fried dishes. They sold them packed into mesh cages in fresh meat markets with their little paws sticking out the side. Very cute, and appetising.


The Chinese call the Koreans 'dog eaters' which I take to be ironic wit of the highest calibre.


Scorpions and silkworms were straightforward, but I didn't much like the one where they skinned a live snake in front of you and threw it still wiggling into the wok. Just unnecessary.


Drunken prawns were wierd. They threw the live prawns into a glass of Baijiu (pronounced By - Joe, literally 'white spirit'). As they became progressively pissed, you dragged 'em out, peeled their sluggish bodies and popped them into your mouth, washing them down with a slug from the tumbler.

candj

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Huguenot,


I don't like drunken prawns because I find it a bit unnerving, but think they taste delicious. I once had lobster tail cut from a live, moving lobster in Japan (I didn't know they served it this way). Not for the sensitive!


And apparently, pink birds nest is quite a delicacy as it's tainted with the birds own blood which occasionally happens.


!


Edited to add, I very recently ate dog food accidentally whilst drinking champagne at a friend's house.... silly man, kept his dog nibbles in a beautiful Georgian silver bowl for his little runty chihuahua on the kitchen counter!

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