Quote:
Originally Posted by Mortis
Anyone had the pleasure of eating Durian?
|
Durian! Thank you! I never knew the English name. It's very popular in Taiwan, where I used to have it a couple of times a week. Kinda miss it. Like chou tofu, once you get past the smell, it's quite tasty.
I've lived on four continents and visited the other three, so my culinary repertoire is pretty broad. Having spent the past dozen years in Asia, I noted a number of never-agains that are staples in my family -- chicken's feet and soy products (from soy milk to thousand-year eggs) jump out at me. Still, I was surprised at the number of things I haven't (yet) experienced.
Some other culinary trash and treasures I've tried that I haven't seen mentioned here are stinky tofu, duck's tongue, turtle, fried grasshopper, scorpion, rat, cat, dog, calf's brain, offal, rocky mountain oysters, bird spit soup, pig's ear, crocodile, kangaroo, dirt (yes, dirt), and live slug.
But of all the things that have passed my lips, the only ones I can swear on a stack of Bibles that'll never do so again are balut and marmite -- and I'm not sure about the balut :-)
--Nathanael