What the hell, were you living on an obscure island in the Pacific somewhere?! That's quite a list!
I travel to Japan and China regularly, and I am an adventurous eater!
Except for the sea cucumber, which was ordered by a big client, I wanted to try the others.
The sea cucumber was the grossest thing I have ever eaten. By far.
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gotcha, having a go at someone, got it.
and as far as having a "fair dinkum"
i haven't a clue what a fair dinkum is.
i go ask jeanie/cate to teach me Aussie.
before you know it i'll be a kangaroo or a wombat marsupial?
are wombats edible?
I'm sure Aboriginals would/still do in eat it in the outback and shit. but no, wombat is a no go zone as far as I know.
I was at a wild life park in tasmania once, and Some guy asked me to catch a wombat that was in the toilets. It was drinking out of the troft, then it sprinted toward me and ran through my legs, suprisingly fast.
As for fair dinkum, it is like saying "are you serious/ for real?"
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Shark fin soup - it was really good
Rocky Mountain Oysters (aka bulls balls) - they were chewy and not my fav
elk, deer, bear - very gamey tasting
rabbit - tastes like chicken
Sounds like a bit of Chinese travelling. In the regional Cantonese parts, the bits that aren't Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou, the philosophy is 'if it moves, eat it'.
Sea cucumber isn't so bad. Horse is pretty yucky, though. Cat is basically like rabbit, and dog is fairly similar to lamb. Snake and crocodile have fairly similar flavours. Mongoose is quite gamey, an interesting taste. Centipede was deep fried and heavily spiced when I tried it, so don't know what it really tastes like. The same too for grasshopper and all the other insects they serve up in regional Thailand. Jellyfish is quite common, really. Sea horse and sea dragon doesn't really have flavour to them. Snail is ok, but you're really only tasting the garlic butter they serve them with and not so much the snail itself when you eat it. Pigeon is basically duck. Frog and toad (not the poisonous ones, obviously) are awesome when barbequed. Don't know what grubs taste like- I was too weirded out to chew on 'em, and mostly just slurped it down real quickly.
Having eaten pretty much any animal in Australia, East and SE Asia that's not endangered, I'm quite keen to have an African eating tour, go on one of those safaris and eat what you see as you go along.
I'd like to try bear and camel, hopefully fairly soon. Seal, too. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to try, so long as they're not endangered. If I see any ivory merchants shoot walrus and elephants dead and just take the ivory, I'll slice a few cuts of meat off so it doesn't go to waste.
aside from the sea cucumber, the rest was pretty tasty.
the horse sashimi had a very unique flavor-kinda like horses smell
seriously, youve all seen Anthony Bourdain's show?
My love for authentic indingenous food is almost as passionate-but I wont eat the embryonic eggs or cobras blood!
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I travel to Japan and China regularly, and I am an adventurous eater!
Except for the sea cucumber, which was ordered by a big client, I wanted to try the others.
The sea cucumber was the grossest thing I have ever eaten. By far.
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I'm sure Aboriginals would/still do in eat it in the outback and shit. but no, wombat is a no go zone as far as I know.
I was at a wild life park in tasmania once, and Some guy asked me to catch a wombat that was in the toilets. It was drinking out of the troft, then it sprinted toward me and ran through my legs, suprisingly fast.
As for fair dinkum, it is like saying "are you serious/ for real?"
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Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
Rocky Mountain Oysters (aka bulls balls) - they were chewy and not my fav
elk, deer, bear - very gamey tasting
rabbit - tastes like chicken
not all that adventurous...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber
at what point in history did people look at these and think "oh great, lets eat this"...??? very adventurous eating, ur list wins so far
Sea cucumber isn't so bad. Horse is pretty yucky, though. Cat is basically like rabbit, and dog is fairly similar to lamb. Snake and crocodile have fairly similar flavours. Mongoose is quite gamey, an interesting taste. Centipede was deep fried and heavily spiced when I tried it, so don't know what it really tastes like. The same too for grasshopper and all the other insects they serve up in regional Thailand. Jellyfish is quite common, really. Sea horse and sea dragon doesn't really have flavour to them. Snail is ok, but you're really only tasting the garlic butter they serve them with and not so much the snail itself when you eat it. Pigeon is basically duck. Frog and toad (not the poisonous ones, obviously) are awesome when barbequed. Don't know what grubs taste like- I was too weirded out to chew on 'em, and mostly just slurped it down real quickly.
Having eaten pretty much any animal in Australia, East and SE Asia that's not endangered, I'm quite keen to have an African eating tour, go on one of those safaris and eat what you see as you go along.
I'd like to try bear and camel, hopefully fairly soon. Seal, too. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to try, so long as they're not endangered. If I see any ivory merchants shoot walrus and elephants dead and just take the ivory, I'll slice a few cuts of meat off so it doesn't go to waste.
i may have eaten cat in Thailand....:( i hope not!
turtle, gator tail, pirana....
and some hot banana drink in Peru....it was disgusting
edit - read some more of the thread....i've also eaten escargot, an ostrich burger, a buffalo burger, frog legs, and octopus
ok, one more edit and i'm done - raw quail egg....it was interesting.
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the horse sashimi had a very unique flavor-kinda like horses smell
seriously, youve all seen Anthony Bourdain's show?
My love for authentic indingenous food is almost as passionate-but I wont eat the embryonic eggs or cobras blood!
Would have been better with ketchup instead.