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2014年11月25日星期二

World Strange Foods



If you are tired of all the nice and delicious food, today let’s try something strange and that you might be unable to imagine.

Balut is a fertilized egg. If you open it, you can see the shapeless duck tire model inside. When eating this kind of snacks, you need to open the shell, then put salt and pepper in, then suck the liquid inside. This kind of snack is served in Philippines and other parts of South Asia.





This snack crab is from Japan. It’s shell has a sweet and slightly spicy taste. Japanese people like it’s taste, but I don’t think it’s a friendly taste for people who aren't used to it. 


CasuMarzu is kind of cheese feed with maggots. After a high degree of decomposition, it made maggots. Drilling into the cheese. The taste is sticky and wet. This kind of soft cheese also has a creamy texture. We will see the snack on the wedding day or at family gatherings.




Escamoles is made of ant eggs. In Mexico, it is really popular. It tastes just like corn, and the local people like to put this into their tacos.



This is kind of Chinese snack. It is made of sleeve-fish. It has a rough outside but inside is really soft. People call it fry sleeve-fish balls.



If you live in Bangkok, you will taste the crickets. It is said that Bangkok has a lot of strange food. From here you can find baby sparrow, rats, snakes, or you can drink a bowl of delicious scorpion soup.






TakkoShoji invented the black garlic chocolate, he said he fermented garlic and added some chocolate in. People can taste sweet, sour, spicy and bitter at the same time. If you can continue to eat this chocolate for a few months, you will feel it can increase your energy.



Hakarl is very popular in Iceland; it’s a snack about shark meat. People dry shark meat in four to five months. Hakarl can be divided into two parts. One part is called glerhakarl. It is red, and made from the shark's stomach. The other part is called skyrhakarl. It’s white and soft, and made from the shark's body.