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Exotic food for exotic tourists

Postby Cold_as_ice » 29 November 2008


Have you ever eaten extreme and exotic dishes? If so, what were they like?
Here is what you can eat in different countries:

In Vietnam and Cambodia eating crickets is an ordinary thing. They prepare it in boiling oil with garlic and salt.
The Chinese, South Asians and Arabs prefer snakes. Most popular dishes are snake soups, roast snakes. Men drink snake blood for increasing the potency. In China it's also natural to eat swallow nests.
Cockroaches, black beetles, ant eggs are the dishes eaten in Thailand. These are usually added in salads, assortments, different meals.

Sounds strange, but people even eat GOLD. Yes, gold. Germans eat sausages polished with a very thin layer of 14-carat gold. Gold is considered to be good in cleaning your digesting system. Even ancient Greeks used to eat it.

Africa has plenty of exotic food. You can eat there larva, caterpillars, worms. These are kind of soft meals for the Africans.

Cats and dogs are considered to be delicacies in Korea, Taiwan and Kazakhstan. They are fried, boiled, cooked etc. poor doggies :lol:
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Postby mortstiff » 23 February 2009

They will eat anything in France, so long as it is presented by an arrogant waiter, over-priced, and accompanied by a decent wine.
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Re: Exotic food for exotic tourists

Postby lsea_717 » 10 June 2010

lol @mortstiff's comment! Paris is truly a place where food is of importance.. the French love good food and good wine.. The fact that escargot is accepted as a dish here is already proof that they are quite open to a lot of ideas when it comes to food.. Marché d’Aligre offers a lot of exotic foods! Happy eating! :mrgreen:
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Re: Exotic food for exotic tourists

Postby mortstiff » 10 June 2010

Just back from Copenhagen, where I learned that Noma requires a reservation two years in advance.
I made it to the waiting list. At the no. 1 restaurant in the world, smoked musk ox cheek is a feature.
Scandinavians definitely are living on the edge.
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Re: Exotic food for exotic tourists

Postby travelguideparis » 12 June 2010

food is good here
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