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I dare you to try even one of these truly vomit inducing dishes. Between the
fried spiders, baby mice and cobra hearts you are sure to find something that
will either cause you to wretch or run screaming.
P.S. Not for faint-hearted.
1 Road Trip Cambodia: Itsy Bitsy Spiders
In Cambodia the habit of eating fried tarantulas began during a period of
starvation in history, but nowadays they are considered to be quite a delicacy.
2 Balut, Phillippines
Balut is a “snack” consisting in a half-fertilized duck or chicken egg, served
with a little salt after being boiled. One can find it all over the streets and
markets of Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and it is as popular as
hotdogs are in the US.
3 Snake and Scorpion Wine
This unusual type of liquor can be found in Asia mostly and it is made out of a
dipping Cobra or scorpion into a rice wine bottle. After a few months of
fermentation, the venom is dissolved and the drink is good to serve!
4 Cobra Heart, Vietnam
In Vietnam one can serve a live cobra’s heart: some eat it raw, along with a
cobra blood chaser while others prefer to have it with some rice wine.
5 Birds Nest Soup, China
The saliva of the birds give this soup its unicity. It is one of the most
expensive products consumed by humans, because of the difficulty in getting it.
6 Baby Mice Wine
Traditional in China and Korea, baby mice wine is considered to be a “health
tonic”. The confessed taste: raw gasoline. While still alive, newborn mice are
thrown into bottles full of rice wine and left there to ferment.
7 Casu Marzu, Sardinia
This is a type of cheese that few people would try, as it is stuffed with insect
larva. Often referred to as “maggot cheese”. It is consumed while the living
beings inside it are still alive, otherwise it is said to be toxic.
8 Kopi Luwak, Indonesia
This is the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world, but still you might
want to reconsider it, when someone politely invites you to sip from a mug full
of it. Why? Because it is made out of the excrements of a creature that
resembles a cat, called the Luwak.
9 Tuna Eyeball
Usually served in Japan and China, the tuna eyeball is another weird dish that
might not be for everyone’s taste. They say it tastes much better than it looks.
10 Rocky Mountain Oysters
One might be tempted to think that these oysters can’t be much different from
the ones you find at the bottom of the ocean, while they are, in fact, something
totally different. A buffalo’s fried testicles got this name because it sounds
more fancy. Best way to cook: peel, boil, roll into flour mixture and fry.
11 Fugu
The poisonous Puffer Fish is a great sensation in many restaurants of the world.
The thing is that only very qualified and trained cooks are allowed to prepare
it, because of something goes wrong…well, let’s say that it could be your last
meal.
12 Bugs
Insects make an old dish in many parts of the world, except Europe and North
America. Served all crispy, they make perfect nutricious snacks!
13 Escamoles – Mexico
This weird dish comes from Mexico, from giant black ants. They make their nests
in the roots of some plants.Collecting these eggs is not the most pleasant job
one can get, since their owners are venonous and creepy. The eggs taste like
buttery, being slightly nutty.
14 Mongolian Boodog
This one is prepared by cooking the animal – usually a goat or a marmot from
inside out. Yes, the WHOLE animal. Mongolians are the best cooks for this: the
animalis cooked in its own skin, with the help of hot rocks.
15 Whole Sheep’s Head
This dish can be served with or without brains: the head, of course. It is
considered to be a delicacy even in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe areas.
16 Bat Soup
Even though bats are considered to be notorious disease carriers, they are still
served in soups cooked mainly in Thailand and Guam, some parts of China even.
17 Ox Penis
Cooked by steaming, deep frying or simply consumed raw, the ox penis is commonly
eaten by humans in the Oriental countries. In the Western countries, ox penises
are usually dried out and served as dog food.
18 Caterpillar Fungus
This is a fungus, a parasitic one, that invades the body of the insect larvae,
eventually killing and mummifying the caterpillars. Mostly used as a medicine or
as an aphrodisiac, the Caterpillar Fungus can be also served in soups.
19 Human Placenta
People who dare it this believe that it prevents postpartum depression and other
pregnancy complications. There are various recipes to prepare it, even cocktails
and it is found mostly in America and Europe, Mexico, Hawaii, China, and the
Pacific Islands.
20 Kumis
This is a rather gross drink, consisting in fermented mare milk. Because a
female horse’s milk contains more sugars than the fermented cow’s or goat’s
milk, kumis has a higher, though still mild, alcohol content. It also has a
strong laxative effect.
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