Voila! One of our recent meals in Paris:
Do share with us the strangest thing that you’ve ever eaten or seen on a menu! Cheers….
Voila! One of our recent meals in Paris:
Do share with us the strangest thing that you’ve ever eaten or seen on a menu! Cheers….
I once attended a meeting dinner in Amsterdam during my days as a Product Manager for a Chinese food brand.
Our host very proudly presented us a Chinese delicacy – a whole pigeon cooked and served on a platter still standing on its feet!
I am sure Gareth in China can regale us with many more such stories…..
A family that I lived with had cows and horses and one of the beasts they had was a Watusi.
This animal learned to rip up the electric fences with his horns and flirt and hang out with the neighboring cows in the other pastures. Unfortunately for him we were tired of repairing the fences so we sent for the mobile slaughter to come and take care of him.
At first is has hard to eat your own pet but when the meat was on the grill it was so fragrant and smelled like jasmine, musk or some type of perfume. It was one of the most wonderful food smells ever!
The meat was very tender and rich but still very lean.
I’ve had Kobe beef but only in the states. Kobe did not compare to the Watusi!
It was a very interesting food experience because I ate yummy Watusi for the remainder of the year.
Indeed I can, but seeing as how we covered this twice in the past few months I’m not going to.
What is going to be interesting is tomorrow I am heading to the Philippines for a week of kite surfing, scuba diving and lobster eating on one of the most beautiful little islands in the world – Boracay.
One of the restaurants on Boracay island is called the Hobbit House and is stafffed exclusively by Hobbits (midgets/Dwarves/PORG’s – little people in general). I am keen to understand if anyone out there has some hints or tips no how to deal with the little fellas. One of them by his/herself no worries – I can deal, however, I worry that when you get a tribe of them then they might drug my food and I could end up like Gulliver, tied down on the beach.
Does anyone who visits this blog have any advise? I’m sure one of you is an expert on dwarves.
Hi there
Havent been for a bit so sorry…
The strangest food I have seen wasn’t on a menu it was cooked in front of us.
I was attending a Tafe course which is similar to Uni just not as stricked and one of the women had brought all the ingredients for a soup.
It was and this is no lie… penis and testicle soup….. which she cooked in the kitchen area. As the dish progress the smell which extremely yummy wafted through the building and people were gathering around to see what it was.
When she added the final ingrediant many ran to the tiolet, the men cringed and took off, and everyone else stood around dumbfounded at what to do!
The true test came whewn it was offered around and yes some did try it….. I was not one of them…. brrrrrrrr!
Gareth
good luck
let me know what its like
I may plan a holiday out there and take the ‘war’ to them. Just me, a bottle of wray and nephew and the ‘equaliser’ club and taser combo.
Bring it on.
Oh and JimandEm when you are next in t’Uk I will take you to eat some nigerian snails. they are huge huge things, flavoured with garlic, scotch bonnets and tomatoes ace. but dead chewy.
Gary,
You may need to recruit an army of warriors, there are four such restaurants in the Philippines.
I’ll see if I can get tooled up in Caticlan before getting on the boat. Modern airline rules prevent me from taking my chosen assortment of weapons – when will these do gooders learn that most of us carry weapons for the main enemy not just a few Islamists.
If you don’t hear from me for a few days then see if you can assemble a resuce party, special forces or maybe just someone who’s worked with clowns extensively.
I love snails loaded with garlic and have not heard of those Nigerian snails before, didn’t realise they had snails in Nigeria! Maybe I’ll get one of those emails from a Nigerian snail asking for $50,000 to help them out of the country. I’ve had a fre random emails like that lately.
My food antics go to Ostritch and Kangeroo and one of them is totally fat free. Anyone know which?
One of the strangest things I have seen on a menu is the prices on the room service menu at this Heathrow hotel I am staying in tonight.
£19 for chicken and chips… £4 for a side order of veg…£8.50 for a glass of white wine…plus a £3 ‘tray charge’ … they obviously hire the trays out to the guests. I may tell them to waive the tray charge and let them bring the food without using a tray…
8 pounds for a glass of wine? That had better come with ‘free refills’…
I wish…!
PS I have just been exploring the mini bar.
£2.10 for a Mars Bar. And they have ‘Oxygen in a can’ for £9. What?! Outrageous!
The airpost meal thing is a joke and how do they get away with these prices for their plastic attempts at food? Oxygen in a can – give me a break, there has to be something more exciting for your money at the airport Diane, please tell me there is!
Safe flight and do post from LAX or Santa Monica!!
Froglegs…funny story about this one, too. My dad told me what it was in Chinese and it sounds the same as “sweet chicken”…so, there I was innocently eating my “sweet chicken” legs and then I got to the bone, which was entirely waaaay too small for any chicken’s!
Rattlesnake. With tons and tons of garlic, it tastes just like chicken!!!
I had rattlesnake meat once. In fact it was “Southern fried rattlesnake” (even!!). It didn’t taste bad at all, but there wasn’t much to it — mostly bones, and the fried breading on the outside.
Fried beetles in Thailand, Camel stuffed with goat at a wedding in Al Ain or me turning down dog in the Phillipines. No thanks.
‘It all tastes like chicken!’
I actually ate a McDonalds once and survived!
Too funny! lol I am an associate manager at McDonald’s and they’ve come a long way since the old days of burgers in heated bins. However, I still wouldn’t recommend it as a mainstay diet.
Good Ol’ USA here, most exotic I get is Eel, and after seeing pictures of them, glad to get them suckers out of the oceans and into my tummy, teriyaki style.
But I have a pretty senstive tummy, so budget my gastronomical experimentations accordingly.
Almost every restaurant around here that serves fish of any kind also serves frog legs. They are delicious! Many also serve quail, alligator, and buffalo meat. When the nearby buffalo (bison) farm was still open to the public, I bought a lot of it and used it at home. It’s great and super healthful. Probably the strangest thing I’ve eaten, though, is ground emu. We all really liked it, though, and I’d try it again.
Sarah, its the Ostrich that is fat and cholesterol free.
I rode one in Outshorn in South Africa about 8 years ago. Those things really move. They catch one, hold it steady while you climb up a step ladder and get on the back, put your legs under the wings, keep them high to prevent the legs hitting yours as it runs then off you go. To turn simply move the head. When you’re done slide off the back and tumble in the dust.
Afterwards we had a big Brair (BBQ) with Ostrich meat (not the one I rode).
Absolutely a great experience. Highly recomend South Africa for many reasons not just this.
Gareth you beat us to the answer – We did exacly the same Os wise after heading up from Knysna (oysters) following a sacrificial fling off 216m bungee of Blaukrans bridge.
Best steak we?ve had in years, in fact about the only one we?ve had since our spa flush out!
I am a very picker eater so I’ve never actually tried anything really exotic. I was present while a friend of mine ate chocolate covered ants though. I passed on them….
Sheep-head is a traditional dish in some parts of Norway.
Delicious!
Wiki actually have an article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalahove
Does a drink count?
Habu Sake
Here’s a picture of it