Most Interesting Thing You've Eaten

[direstraits]

I actually enjoy kimchi. In Korea, the restaurants serve it free with rice (you'd order other things to go with the kimchi and rice). It's like their national dish.

I've eaten (and enjoyed) kimchi before I went to Korea, but after I tasted the original, the imported kimchi never looked the same to me again.

Fried calamari = brilliant! I know a place which cooks brilliant fried calamari and soft-shelled crab dishes. I'll eat it again soon and report back here on whether it's still good.

Novella, what's mochi? Do you mean omochi, which is a Japanese dish, or muachi (spelling, spelling) a flour paste thingee made into little balls covered with crushed peanuts?

ds

 

[phil_t]

Never been that much of a brave eater myself, so I tend to stay away from the weird stuff.

I have tried squid, which is not a meal I'd be keen to repeat, and I have eaten Buffalo (Bison by another name) Burgers which were just like beef but bigger and juicier and all-round delicious. I have also eaten Dolphin, and many, many weird types of fish from around the world (fish is a personal favorite of mine, of the many there are a few weird ones I remember - catfish, swordfish, grouper, grenadier fish, etc.).

I would never eat insects or otherwise squirmy things unless they were forced upon me - shellfish, oysters and such I stay well away from.

Hmmmmm, does cold fish and chips count as sushi

Phil

 

[Martin]

Phew, thought you were gonna say Ice.

Cheers

 

[phil_t]

You're a bad, bad man

Phil

 

[Martin]

Hmm, so that means ... poor girl.

Cheers

 

[Ice]

Phew, thought you were gonna say Ice.

Cheers

I'm not even going to dignify that with a comment - Phil wouldn't lower the tone like that

 

[Martin]

Hey, it would only be a compliment - he'd be calling you interesting if he named you!

Cheers

 

[Ell]

Most interesting? Probably fish eyeballs. Squishy and slithery outside with a hard inedible centre. I eat practically anything, but once was enough of that!

I also ate salted, crunchy beetles when I was young. They were quite good.

 

[mojo]

Most interesting? Probably fish eyeballs. Squishy and slithery outside with a hard inedible centre. I eat practically anything, but once was enough of that!

I also ate salted, crunchy beetles when I was young. They were quite good.

Ewwwww I think you win Ell that's horrible

 

[cajunmama]

I must add, though, that there is very little I won't try, I am an adventurous eater. And if I was hungry enough, I would probably eat just about anything.

 

[novella]

I believe that would be Kimchi. Never had it, but I've heard all about it.

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No, it's not kimchi. There are loads of kinds of kimchi, and I've had great kimchi. I have some in the fridge--store bought and not that great. I'm talking about some of the other "little dishes" brought to the table in a Korean restaurant.

 

[novella]

Novella, what's mochi? Do you mean omochi, which is a Japanese dish, or muachi (spelling, spelling) a flour paste thingee made into little balls covered with crushed peanuts?

ds

Omochi and Mochi are the same thing. The "O" is a Japanese grammatical construction, like saying o-bento or bento box, which are also the same.

There are all different kinds of mochi, but the unifying feature is a rubbery sweet rice paste that is very foreign to me, though I've tried it several times. I think of them as the Hello Kitty version of sweets. Here is a box of pretty mochi:

 

[marlasinger]

Snakes blood. It was only years later, that someone told me that it's used as an aphrodisiac.