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Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:00:19 AM

Serge Birbrair

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What is the most adventurous food you ever had and what was the wine if any!?

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:07:35 AM

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Fried cockroach and Thai red wine in Bangkok.

I couldn't decide which was worse - the fat, greasy cockroach or the head numbing wine.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:09:44 AM

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Gator - and a local Florida wine they call Corona Extra...nice with a bit of lime on the nose.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:16:03 AM

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"Gator on a stick" in New Orleans, no wine.
That's about all I got.
I did see a lot of interesting bites while in China (fried scorpions,etc) but I didn't try them.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:19:37 AM

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Fried cockroach and Thai red wine in Bangkok.

I couldn't decide which was worse - the fat, greasy cockroach or the head numbing wine.

Are you sure it was a cockroach and not grasshopper!?

Thai wines weren't bad, I had a few myself:
http://nocomments.com/2/Thailand/Fun/imagepages/image42.html
http://nocomments.com/2/Thailand/Fun/imagepages/image46.html

gbm, how gator was prepared?

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:22:41 AM

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No, it was definately a cockroach. Big one as well. All greasy and chewy and grim and horrible.

I had scorpion as well at the same time but that was quite nice - a bit like crunchy bacon.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:26:38 AM

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Paul, wow! You are MORE adventurous than I am and I salute you! I don't run into the folks like you very often!

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:34:41 AM

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Do be honest there was a certain amount of alcohol fuelled bravado involved. That soon disapated when the greasy, gristle-like thorax needed a number of chews before it went down.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:40:29 AM

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Bamboo weevil and OB (it's a Korean beer!)
L.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:42:33 AM

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Hmm.... sheep's brains and Aussie pinot for me. Not sure which one was the greater risk.

May not be too shocking to you European guys, but crocodile, kangaroo, locusts, frogs, worms and grasshoppers I have tried without so much as a cringe. The sheep's brains took me awhile to muster up enough courage to eat.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:46:26 AM

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Paul, you'll be glad to know that sheep brain is the part of the traditional Italian Easter dinner!

Colonel, what is Bamboo weevil?

This bug???
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&ie=UTF-8&rls=SUNA,SUNA:2007-12,SUNA:en&q=Bamboo%20weevil&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

How was it cooked?

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:50:59 AM

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Luckily the bar was dark, but yes one of those things I guess,
Probably fried - Korean substitute for Pork Scratchings (that's probably very British) or any beer snack (greasy and crispy).
L.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 6:56:59 AM

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Braised squirrel and a Missouri Norton (most common grape there). The squirrel was actually pretty darn good, the wine was very simple and sweet.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 7:13:59 AM

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Pretty sure I had spiced dog on a stick from a street vendor in Ningbo with Tsingtsao.
Snake done many ways served with many wines.
Chicken liver sashimi with Asahi
The common chickens feet and jelly fish in Hong Kong

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 7:41:24 AM

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Wrighty, jelly fish is quite popular in the authentic Honk Kong restaurants in Florida as well. I only had snake from the can, probably not the same as a real thing.
Dog I can not do, my pooch will NEVER forgive me for that!

Squirrel!? This is adventurous, indeed, I never ever heard about anybody eating it!
High five!

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 7:47:47 AM

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Serge,

Never saw the point of jellyfish, might as well chew elastic bands but the last couple of times it's been ordered it was quite good - think I've been in HK too long.

The dog was not eaten knowingly but after there were lots of knowing smiles from the locals.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 7:49:14 AM

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Wrighty, "when in Rome..."
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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 7:53:26 AM

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Had a businees trip to brisbane australia. Was brough to a local fare restauraunt and had all the local road kill, litterally, Kangaroo, wombat, etc,, with a bottle of Shiraz, (we could bring our own as they did not serve booze) , forget the brand though..

Wasnt bad...

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 7:55:37 AM

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In Wuxi, China I had jellyfish and eel. They weren't bad, actually. They were served with some kind of plum wine that tasted like turpentine mixed with gasoline, but wasn't quite as good as either.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 8:15:27 AM

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Probably chicken feet at a bad dim sum place in San Francisco. You know its bad when their are dead fish floating in the fish tank with the live ones.

Does the green goo inside the whole lobster count? Most people don't eat that but I was born in Nova Scotia and my uncles were lobsterboatmen so we had lots of lobster.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 8:24:00 AM

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Rob, the green stuff in lobster is what I collect from everybody at the table, most of the folks have no idea that this is one of the best parts of the lobster.

Dead fish in the tank!?
I'd leave that place BEFORE exposed to their food.

Blue, eel is very popular at sushi / oriental markets in Florida.

Wombat....this IS exotic!

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Food fight! - 7/10/2008 8:39:38 AM

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I can probably confirm wright's experience. While traveling in mainland China last year, spiced dog, scorpion, and snake were available along the Cháng Jiāng (Yangtze) amd Li rivers. And oh that snake wine! Looks like the Chinese have adopted this little beauty from Viet Nam - venomous snake fermented in rice wine. Tasting notes were a challenge. Can't say I could successfully pair it with any food. Slick and oily on the tongue, distinctly diesel (maybe they used that instead of rice wine in the one I tried), medicinal kick of a bad cough medicine, followed by the distinct feeling that a scaly snake was slithering down your throat to wait silently to strike the next thing you swallowed.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 8:43:51 AM

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Hmmmm,
Some interesting dishes on this forum. Amazing how culture can program one person to think yum and another to think yuck! Bugs
For me, shiokaro, which translates to sashimi squid intestines [guts] with some salt was pretty tough. It actually induced a gag reflex. Nato (fermented soy) is about the only other food to do that to me. Washed this down with a lot of Sapporo.
I was once told I was eating sashimi crab brain, and apparently it is a real dish, but I am still skeptical and think that something gets lost in translation.
On more of an exotic note, I tried fugu … a really fun dish. They cooked the fin in sake which was then served with the meal.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 8:46:19 AM

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I knew there was a reason I like this forum. Thank you, guys, you expanded my horizons and now I have the whole list of dishes to look for outside of USA.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 8:49:40 AM

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I knew there was a reason I like this forum. Thank you, guys, you expanded my horizons and now I have the whole list of dishes to look for outside of USA.

Or just some dishes you could put together from various creepy crawlies in your backyard. Grab one of those iguanas that hop in your pool from time to time.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 8:54:37 AM

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Rob, no can do, those nasty creatures are protected by law in Florida, I can't even use BB gun to scare them away from my backyard.
They lay down on my roof basking in the sun, **** all over the roof and there is nothing I can do.

(The fact that I heard that they taste like one of the worst things one can put in their mouth has nothing to do with my assesment of the creatures :) )

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 8:58:24 AM

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Rob, no can do, those nasty creatures are protected by law in Florida, I can't even use BB gun to scare them away from my backyard.
They lay down on my roof basking in the sun, **** all over the roof and there is nothing I can do.

(The fact that I heard that they taste like one of the worst things one can put in their mouth has nothing to do with my assesment of the creatures :) )

Bah - they are only protected if someone sees you.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 9:01:12 PM

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Jellyfish is served as part of cold dish appetisers in almost all 8 to 10 course Chinese banquets in my part of the world. Everyone just eats them without batting an eyelid. Not my favourite, tends to be a bit rubbery and tasteless except for the sweet seasoning, which I am not partial too anyway. They do pair well with Sauvignon Blanc though.

The worst I have ever had were fried meal-worms from Thailand. I thought they would taste like chicken, similar to the grasshoppers that I had alongside, but no. They tasted just like they looked. Slimy, stinky and a little mushy. Like warm, slightly solidified puke. No wine pairing for that though.

Other things that we Chinese eat regularly -

"Bird's nest", which is actually a euphemism for a sticky substance secreted in a swallow's saliva which is used to put the twigs and branches of a bird's nest together. The whole nest is harvested, and the salivary substance removed an boiled into a soup. Incredibly delicious.

"Cordyceps", a fungus of sort that inhabits a worm, feeds parasytically on it, and kills it, leaving a fungus-stick shaped like the worm. Again, used in soups. Not half bad.

"Hashima", glands from the snow-frog, used in a sweet, soupy dessert."

"Herbal jelly", another euphemism, this time for a thick black herbal jelly whose main ingredient is the powder crushed from a substance found on the underside of turtle shells. Not bad if you can take your bitter herbs. Usually eaten with a liberally does of honey.

"Leng Yong", sweet drink made from the shaving of a deer antler.

"Kway Chap" - a flat noodle dish in Singapore, served with tripe, pig's ears, and other assorted 'spare parts'

I have not tried pairing any of these with wine yet :)

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 9:02:53 PM

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quote:

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Pretty sure I had spiced dog on a stick from a street vendor in Ningbo with Tsingtsao.
Snake done many ways served with many wines.
Chicken liver sashimi with Asahi
The common chickens feet and jelly fish in Hong Kong

Wrighty

I just HAVE to ask you this - is there any truth at all in the urban legend (at least an urban legend in this part of the world) that dogs will know when you have eaten dogs and will not like you?

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 9:18:31 PM

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lmao... some of you guys should audition for the Fear Factor...
you'd have the eating challenge mastered walking in the door

http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Factor/

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