Saturday, October 17, 2009

Weird Foods Around The World

clipped from www.bootsnall.com

10 Weird Food Delicacies From Around the World

1 – Birds Nest Soup, China

You wouldn’t necessarily think a birds nest would be edible, but the Chinese use Swifts’ nests to make this soup, known as the ‘Caviar of the East’. Right now you’re probably imagining a nest made out of twigs and leaves, but Swiftlets make their nests predominantly out of saliva.
BirdsNestSoup
2 – Fried tarantulas, Cambodia
FriedSpiders
Eensy weensy spider, climbing up the spout…if you suffer from arachnophobia you probably don’t want to try eating these eight legged monsters
3 – Puffer fish, Japan
Fugu
4 – Balut, Phillipines
Balut
5 – Casu Marzu, Sardinia
CasuMarzu
it’s riddled with insect larvae
6 – Surstromming, Sweden
Surstromming
fermented Baltic herring
7 – Live Octopus, Korea
Octopus
8 – Kopi Luwak, Indonesia
want to think twice if someone offers you a cup of this coffee
made from the excrements of an Indonesian cat-like creature called the Luwak.
KopiLuwak
9 – Puffin Heart, Iceland
Puffin
10 – Snake Wine, Vietnam
SnakeWine
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