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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 10:26:10 PM   
Serge Birbrair

 

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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 :)




Thank you for watering my mouth at 1:25 AM in the morning!

All sound like a fun food!

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 11:00:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		A few years ago someone published a survey where people all over the world were asked what was the most disgusting food they knew other people consumed in other parts of the world. They were given a card to help them choose.

The winner by far was "cheese". (The card defined as a food appreciated in Western countries consisting of 'solidified rotten milk' -- or something to that effect.)

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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 11:07:29 PM   
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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 11:09:22 PM   
Serge Birbrair

 

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Status: offline 		I hear Chinese are not fond of cheese at all.
Talking about cheese, "The Norvegian Old Cheese" is the foulest thing ever crossed my mouth. It did it twice as a matter of fact, on the way in and on the way out.
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RE: Food fight! - 7/10/2008 11:58:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I never quite liked cheese until recently. That was probably because all I got was Philidelphia Cream Cheese and Kraft Singles. Have absolutely fallen in love with good gourmet cheese now though - anything from gauda to gorgonzola to stilton blue (my personal favourite).

The one stink bomb cheese that I could not take was welll-aged Liverot. My goodness, words cannot explain how foul that was, even though I understand from my Belgian friend that that is a real delicacy in his part of the world.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/11/2008 7:33:04 AM   
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Had forgotten a couple of the local specialties

I actually liked bird's nest soup, my mother-in-law cooked it most mornings last time we visited them in Canada.

Is Hashima frog overy soup?  Get this quite often when I go into China.  Nothing special but doesn't bother me.  Both are supposed to be good for smooth skin aren't they?

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RE: Food fight! - 7/11/2008 9:16:42 AM   
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RE: Food fight! - 7/11/2008 12:21:09 PM   
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I'll try anything once.
Then if I didn't like it who could argue 

Changed the rule very shortly to -
I'll try anything once, as long as it's dead!
 
The grizzly details I will avoid.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/11/2008 12:29:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		oh, c'mon, give us some nasty details, you'll be the first with LIVE food descriptors!
I only seen it once in some movie clips.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/11/2008 12:37:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		I wish I had a story to add, but I must be a pickier eater than I thought I was!  No offense to those who have contributed to the thread, but I think I would heave at the sight of just about everything that you all have said you put in your mouths. 

I'm with the Colonel, I have always held that I would try anything once because if I don't like it, then no one can argue with me about it.  I suppose I have subconsciously done what I can to avoid being put in a really sketchy situation where I know I wouldn't be able to stomach what's on the plate.

< Message edited by jhannah27 -- 7/11/2008 12:39:06 PM >

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RE: Food fight! - 7/11/2008 12:59:35 PM   
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 I suppose I have subconsciously done what I can to avoid being put in a really sketchy situation where I know I wouldn't be able to stomach what's on the plate.


never say never
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_re_eu/britain_war_on_waste
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RE: Food fight! - 7/11/2008 1:09:53 PM   
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P.S. - I'm sure you've been asked this before Serge and I'm sorry to go off topic, but do you have an expansive library of obscure articles and multi-media at your fingertips?  It seems you are never without something to paste or link to in a thread, regardless of the topic.  I ask because I'm very impressed.  It's like a little bonus every time I see a post from you, "Where will he take us this time?"

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RE: Food fight! - 7/11/2008 1:36:43 PM   
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RE: Food fight! - 7/12/2008 11:33:57 AM   
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Squirrel!? This is adventurous, indeed, I never ever heard about anybody eating it!
High five!


I grew up in the Corn Belt.  Squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, and quail were common dinners during hunting season.  Squirrel is really good, think of rabbit only more tender and a little gamier. 

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RE: Food fight! - 7/12/2008 11:39:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		I love rabbit, my mother had a nice recipe, slow cooking with lots of garlic and sour cream sauce. I wish I could put my hand on some squirrels.
Pheasant is a bit too dry for me and quail is a bit boney.


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RE: Food fight! - 7/12/2008 2:26:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		This dish looks quite interesting
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=72e96b91df

WARNING:

NOT for the weak of HEART!

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RE: Food fight! - 7/12/2008 2:26:23 PM   
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I love rabbit, my mother had a nice recipe, slow cooking with lots of garlic and sour cream sauce. I wish I could put my hand on some squirrels.
Pheasant is a bit too dry for me and quail is a bit boney.



I spent most of my young years growing up in Germany---Hassenpfeffer (rabbit)!!! Garlic, Onion, Sour Cream!

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RE: Food fight! - 7/12/2008 2:28:52 PM   
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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 1:44:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		I saw this in Beijing but could not bring myself to partake.  Something about looking a live fish in the eye while I ate it.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Chinese+eat+Fish+that+is+half+alive+&search_type=&aq=-1&oq=

Frog and turtle are not unusal fare for me.  Like many of you, I first tasted frog in the form of frog legs (sauteed and fried).  But I never looked a frog in the eye, alive or dead while I was eating it.  As for frog sashima, I tried it too but didn't know what it was at the time.  It was good.  Turtle has been served several ways on my trips to Mexico and further South in Latin America.  When I was growing up, I ate more rabbit than chicken.  It was cheaper down in the Houston, TX area at the time (admittedly a very long time ago).

There seems to be a common thread here.  I just don't like looking into the eyes of my meat.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 1:50:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Of course, I suspect there are a lot of people who won't eat what is a common dish down here where GalvezGuy and I live in Texas.  Menudo and I love it.  Tripe, sometimes pigs feet, hominey in a red chili based soup.  Add some chopped Jalepeño or Serrano peppers, chopped onion, and maybe a little crushed Oregono; serve with an iced cold beer.  What a way to start the morning!

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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 2:11:16 PM   
Serge Birbrair

 

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Status: offline 		Menudo is #1 remedy agaist hangovers! Right on!

As for looking fish in the eye..
My wife is 1/2 Viking, here people did worse:
Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
source: French, Richard V. The History of Toasting, or Drinking of Healths in England. London: National Temperance Publication Depot, 1882, p. 46.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 2:54:13 PM   
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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 3:01:15 PM   
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I love rabbit, my mother had a nice recipe, slow cooking with lots of garlic and sour cream sauce. I wish I could put my hand on some squirrels.
Pheasant is a bit too dry for me and quail is a bit boney.



I would Pheasant hunt and found yes they are dry, However my solution was to steam or boil them, then bone the meat off and dip them in batter and fry like chinese gold fingers,, They were very good that way,

My mother never could tell LOL...

Squirrel is tough, need to use it in stews IMO...

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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 3:04:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		J2K, not sure if you are pulling my chain but I described menudo in my post.  I don't mean the singing group from Puerto Rico.



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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 3:10:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		mjobtx,
I wasn't pulling your chain, I thought the description was for something else. But I re-read yur post.
Sounds like it would cure a lot of things!!!

P.S. At first I did think it was the singing group but couldn't picture Serge listening to a Puerto Rican boy band with a hangover.

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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 3:12:40 PM   
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Tripe, sometimes pigs feet, hominey in a red chili based soup.  Add some chopped Jalepeño or Serrano peppers, chopped onion, and maybe a little crushed Oregono; serve with an iced cold beer.  What a way to start the morning!


J, this Menudo recipe mouth waters me and I am just after the oral surgery.

THIS is what I call "Breakfast of champions"!

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RE: Food fight! - 7/14/2008 3:13:58 PM   
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P.S. At first I did think it was the singing group but couldn't picture Serge listening to a Puerto Rican boy band with a hangover.


Thank you!!!! I knew that I will come out on this board as a "Man of High Standards"!
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RE: Food fight! - 7/15/2008 10:08:53 AM   
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RE: Food fight! - 7/15/2008 10:37:48 AM   
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RE: Food fight! - 7/15/2008 10:14:42 PM   
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