http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/photos/10-exotic-dishes-that-might-make-you-queasy/bon-appetit
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0510/features/explorer_food_gallery.html
The links above have other awesomely weird foods to explore!
Which of these exotic foods would you be willing to try?
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Care for a Cup of McBugs?
Tired of Fried? Allow me to mention the other ways a bug is cooked – raw (chopped and added to chili-based sauces and salads) and steamed (in a banana leaf with curry sauce).In Isan, Thailand, villagers harvest many varieties of bugs. Big, black water beetles are regarded as a special delicacy. The legs get stuck between your teeth, though (Toothpick, anyone?).
Another weird food is Kopi Luwak. It's an extremely rare coffee from Indonesia that's made from coffee cherries
eaten and then excreted (pooped out) by the Asian Palm Civet, also called a toddy cat. The waste is carefully
collected and roasted and sold for up to $600 a pound. The civet's
digestive system supposedly removes some of the bitter compounds from
the beans, resulting a sweeter coffee.

This is Kopi Luwak, the poop from... this animal, an Asian Palm Civet.

This is Kopi Luwak, the poop from... this animal, an Asian Palm Civet.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
One really exotic food: balut, a delicacy in the Phillipines.
This is balut. It's a 11 day old fertilized egg that contains the partially formed embryo of a duck, surrounded by egg. It's a popular food in some parts of Asia. Balut is most often eaten with a pinch of salt, though some balut-eaters prefer chili and vinegar with their eggs. All the contents of the egg are consumed, although the whites may remain.
Steps to eating balut( if you ever want to...):
This is balut. It's a 11 day old fertilized egg that contains the partially formed embryo of a duck, surrounded by egg. It's a popular food in some parts of Asia. Balut is most often eaten with a pinch of salt, though some balut-eaters prefer chili and vinegar with their eggs. All the contents of the egg are consumed, although the whites may remain.
Steps to eating balut( if you ever want to...):
1. Crack a small hole on the more rounder part of the shell (if you hit a hard white piece, then you did it wrong).
2. Crack it a little more until the hole is the size of a bottle cap.
3. Sprinkle whatever what seasoning you would desired sip the juice.
4. Don't be afraid to eat the small little duck inside, just eat it like a boneless chicken thigh, dip the yolk in some lime juice and eat!
2. Crack it a little more until the hole is the size of a bottle cap.
3. Sprinkle whatever what seasoning you would desired sip the juice.
4. Don't be afraid to eat the small little duck inside, just eat it like a boneless chicken thigh, dip the yolk in some lime juice and eat!
5. Good luck, and enjoy!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Hi! My name is Tina and my name is Candace. In this blog we will introduce you to exotic and weird foods all over the world. There will be pictures of interesting foods, and a "spotlight food of the week", which will be the craziest food we can find. We will be including where the food comes from and how the native people eat it. Enjoy!
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