What is the most disgusting-looking food you've ever seen? And did you try it?
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Noodles and that delicious medley of sesame marrinated veggies. Yum. I think I'm having Korean tonight. 
She thinks the noodles look like worms. LOL.
She thinks the noodles look like worms. LOL.
OMG! I could eat pan-chan till the cows came home... (I've been dying for some gosadi, but I can't find them in the shops around here.)
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Looks like a bowl of gummy worms.My mom seems to think Jab Chae looks disgusting. I don't. It's delicious! I'm hungry!
speaking of disgusting food...
Freshman year in HS my homeroom was the German classroom. Every year the German club sold gummi bears as a fund-raiser. For no good reason, one morning a classmate took out a gummi bear, licked the back of it like a stamp, and affixed it to a poster on the wall.
It stayed there.
For months.
I vowed never to eat them after that.
QUIT!!! (I'm salivating all over my keyboard here.)
One of the things I miss about where I used to live in Shanghai: there were TWO great Korean places, one sort of fast-foodish, the other more fancy, both within waking distance of my apartment.
Dried grasshoppers. I ate them with a little bit of lemon juice. They tasted pretty similar to dried shrimp.
I make it a policy to try everything at least once.
Except durion. I haven't been able to get close enough to try it yet.
I make it a policy to try everything at least once.
Except durion. I haven't been able to get close enough to try it yet.
I've SEEN unhatched chicks boiled, skewered like shish-ke-bob. No, I could not eat it. I did eat this:
Not good, but not disgusting, either. I'd rather have them cooked, though.
I've also knawed on a number of heads. Chicken, pig, fish, you name it.
Not good, but not disgusting, either. I'd rather have them cooked, though.
I've also knawed on a number of heads. Chicken, pig, fish, you name it.
Lutefisk. National dish of my heritage, regrettably. My parents, from Scandinavia, belonged to a church (Lutheran, yah, you betcha) where every summer there was some form of festivity involving food, and a competition to see who made the best lutefisk.
Think on that a moment. There's an oxymoron, if ever there was one: the best lutefisk.
I'm sure I was forced or coerced into tasting it at some point in my childhood, but the therapy hasn't yet got in that deep, so I don't remember.
Maybe we need to start an Andrew Zimmern thread.
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Think on that a moment. There's an oxymoron, if ever there was one: the best lutefisk.
I'm sure I was forced or coerced into tasting it at some point in my childhood, but the therapy hasn't yet got in that deep, so I don't remember.
Maybe we need to start an Andrew Zimmern thread.
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Lamb testicles, or 'lamb fries' for the squeamish and/or children.
You can find them at Halal butchers where they are sometimes called 'white kidneys.'
They are quite tasty sliced up and grilled or sauteed with Middle Eastern spices: olive oil, garlic, lemon, a touch of allspice or cinnamon, S&P.
Mild flavor, tender consistency, not at all yucky like brains.
You can find them at Halal butchers where they are sometimes called 'white kidneys.'
They are quite tasty sliced up and grilled or sauteed with Middle Eastern spices: olive oil, garlic, lemon, a touch of allspice or cinnamon, S&P.
Mild flavor, tender consistency, not at all yucky like brains.
Guess what I had for dinner
I went to a little korean market and found gosadi!!! And I bought a big jar of kimchi. I made vegetarian bulgogi (with portos) and a pot of rice, lettuce, seaweed, the panchan... omg. It was so goooooood! Sorry.
Is there anything that doesn't taste good prepared like this? I'd probably take a brick sauteed with olive oil, garlic, and lemon. Mmm, bricky.
I'm hip to kimchi, but gosadi? Panchan?Guess what I had for dinner
Do tell...please.
Panchan is just the name for side dishes. Kimchi is included in that. Gosadi is marinated/cooked fiddle head ferns. OMG. They are divine! I made friends with the owner's wife today and she said that I could come back tomorrow after 4 to have Mook with the family (It's a type of mung bean starch jello and it is sooooo gooooood.)
Yes. My name is Sara and I'm a Korean food junkie.
(It's a type of mung bean starch jello and it is sooooo gooooood.) Yes. My name is Sara and I'm a Korean food junkie.
Thanks. Korean recipes welcome anytime.Panchan is just the name for side dishes. Kimchi is included in that. Gosadi is marinated/cooked fiddle head ferns. OMG. They are divine! I made friends with the owner's wife today and she said that I could come back tomorrow after 4 to have Mook with the family
Yes. My name is Sara and I'm a Korean food junkie.
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When I saw the thread title the first thing I thought of was Balut.
And no, I didn't try it.
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Did I post in here already about balut? Balut was featured in The Amazing Race Asia. I'm so glad I wasn't a contestant, cuz, I gotta tell you, I wouldn't'a made it. That looked so disgusting - the bird is completely recognizable, feathers and beak and feet and all. Ick!
Fish eggs - not caviar, but from whatever fish - is considered a delicacy here. Keep it in the ovaries (am I being a biological idiot here?), but cut into a couple of big-ish pieces, then curry it. I tried a very very very small amount and, yup, that was quite enough. I'm full now, thank you.
And cows intestines and kidneys and liver and brains are eaten in full force here. I can't eat 'em. I tried, but nope. *shakes head* I can't do heart, either. Just... standard meat.
There are some odd desserts here. Odd to me, anyway, although everyone else here seems to love them just fine. One is, well, I don't know what it is, but it's a sweet and it has onion in it. Noticeably. The smell was enough to turn me off. Fahim and his entire family just looked at me like I was nuts for not liking it, but nope. Not going there, either.
Fish eggs - not caviar, but from whatever fish - is considered a delicacy here. Keep it in the ovaries (am I being a biological idiot here?), but cut into a couple of big-ish pieces, then curry it. I tried a very very very small amount and, yup, that was quite enough. I'm full now, thank you.
And cows intestines and kidneys and liver and brains are eaten in full force here. I can't eat 'em. I tried, but nope. *shakes head* I can't do heart, either. Just... standard meat.
There are some odd desserts here. Odd to me, anyway, although everyone else here seems to love them just fine. One is, well, I don't know what it is, but it's a sweet and it has onion in it. Noticeably. The smell was enough to turn me off. Fahim and his entire family just looked at me like I was nuts for not liking it, but nope. Not going there, either.
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My father-in-law, gods rest his soul, was born in Sweden. In the early years of our marriage, it was my turn to provide the Christmas feast, so I decided to honor Ol' Boy's heritage with a traditional Swedish meal.
It was almost all white... and yes, it included lutefisk.
I never did that again.
Yeah, balut is..ummmm.....yeah. It's the concept of what it is that I think bothers me the most. The fact it is eaten whole doesn't help. They literally sell it off of carts, so you can't really avoid it either. Seeing someone eat it with a side of pig intestine soup (the "soup" part being pig's blood) only adds to the horrible factor.
Funny factoid: Did you know that parents in that part of the world often refer to pig's blood soup as "chocolate soup" to convince children to eat it. There's lying to your kids and then there's that. I don't think I'd ever trust my parents again if they did that to me.
Funny factoid: Did you know that parents in that part of the world often refer to pig's blood soup as "chocolate soup" to convince children to eat it. There's lying to your kids and then there's that. I don't think I'd ever trust my parents again if they did that to me.