[tony20009]

Originally Posted by -Wingman-

Where's monkey brains?

Apparently in China, they have a rare, and illegal delicacy that involves taking a live monkey (the small kinds), tying them down to a table by their limbs, trimming their skull caps off to expose the brain, then eating the brain while they're alive. Before eating the brain, they pour a special sauce on the monkey's brain and stir it up with an eating utensil which causes the monkey to freak out. This dish supposedly costs a few grand to try out. I want to see a video of this.

There's a ton of stuff some Chinese person will eat that the rest of us mostly wouldn't. They have this thing called "birds nest." I've seen it as a soup. It's very expensive, even by Western standards. I've seen it appear on Chinese menus priced from 500RMB to 2300RMB. (1 USD = 6 RMB) It comes in red and white varieties. Essentially, it's bird spit. It tastes similar to tapioca and isn't hard to eat, it's a beautiful dish when presented to you, but it's weird. Given that it tastes like tapioca, and the whole fertility/aphrodisiac aspect is little more than hocus-pocus to me, I'll stick with tapioca.

Most of the time in China, I only eat pretty conventional ingredients. Occasionally, the presentation is unexpected, but aside from chou-doufu, not once in three years has the taste been bad. In fact, China is one place about which I can say that the food is outstandingly fresh and good tasting at all price points and levels of refinement. That's also so in India to be honest. I guess really that would have to be the case for any culture that's got 2000+ years of experience with feeding people. Times change; taste buds don't.

BTW, let's hope the monkey brains are inside the monkeys' heads.

[i dunno]

i've had these before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_sinensis

[Almandee26]

Is this a fucking BMW site or Resturant chain ... What's up people .. Lol... 👅

[haajehaa]

Lutefisk is actually quite nice Rakfisk is also a great dish, its basically rotten trout. Always eaten around christmas times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakfisk

We got Smalahove, sheephead, in Norway aswell. Havent tried that though....

[dreamingat30fps]

The nastiest thing I've eating is probably little caesars pizza. That's about as far as I'm willing to go.

[tony20009]

Please take this in the spirit in which it is offered.

When I was in nursery school and kinderegarten, we used to during the nap period play "show" (no "tell" because we were supposed to be asleep). I very distinctly a little girl named Cynthia showing us her "bits" and thinking it was the strangest thing I'd ever seen. I was curious, but it was still strange. Little did I know it would become the most expensive thing that, as a grown man, I would ever eat.

[kumkum]

Originally Posted by GamecockEsquire

Then again... I’m from the south and some people down here eat things like opossums and raccoons. I could not think of a more disgusting animal to eat than an opossum.

Yeah! You are absolutely right. Today's man can eat everything but how that one sound when a man is eating another man. Sounds weird. I have seen that kind of people too when I was in Kenya. I haven't thought of such an incident to happen in my life. Now also when I thought of that scene it shivers whole my body.