-OKF- - 25 February 2008 10:58 AM

have you guys ever tried chicharron with rice? so sick, but so good.

i never really thought about eating chicharron with rice but now that you think of it…

anyway, how many of this list can you cross off as something you’ve eaten:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Offal

I haven’t eaten very much of that stuff.

beef tongue, chicken feet, liver, tripe

things I’ve eaten that are super tasty and I would eat any day: foie gras, haggis, sweet bread.

I think it’s a bad idea to eat any sort of brain.

haggis is good?

There’s too many fancy names on that list.  I’ve had pig and cow intestines, pig snouts, ears, tongues, feet, chicken/duck giblets, feet, tails, duck tongues, kidneys, livers etc.  Tried lungs but I don’t like them too much.

They’re really not that weird if you go to chinese restaurants, they’re all pretty widely available.

And even europeans eat sweetbreads, foie gras, boudin noir/morcilla etc.  It’s really just white north americans that find all that stuff weird I guess.

I’ve had sheep and cow brains.  I’m just waiting for mad cow to kick in.

When I was in Vietnam, I had a chance to have porcupine or mongoose, but I didn’t have enough cash.  I rather regret that.

I’ve had haggis once, in Scotland right by loch lomand, and it was delicious.

I just copy and pasted this from my blog so sorry for being lazy. If anyone can beat eating anything like this, i’ll be rather impressed.

I’ve got the shits like there’s no tomorrow. Last night I shat some clear liquid that looked like it came off the set of Aliens and threw chunks more violently than ever before. My uncle said he had the cure.

We get to a dank squaler of a restaurant and a bowl is placed in front of me. In it are 2 beating hearts and some gall bladders. The dead disembowleld snake is being butchered in the corner. A shot glass is placed in front of me and a milk bottle full of a reddish substance comes from under the table. This is the fabled drink. A freshly gutted snakes heart, gall bladder and snakes blood mixed with snake wine. Shot properly and you can still feel the heart beat down your throat.

My 14 year old cousin drinks with me. She’s braver than me. Once that’s out the way, I feel much better. We head off and dance the night away.

Vietnam, A la carte:

Duck Fetus
Fried Turtle feet
Turtle shell stew
Turtle blood mixed with Hanoi Vodka
Turtle blood mixed and gall bladder with Hanoi Vodka
Boiled Rabbit
Fried Silk Worm lightly seasoned with salt
Fried Grasshopper lightly seasoned with salt and chilli
Lightly fried Snake Kidney
Snake stew
Snake blood mixed with Vodka
Snake blood and ground gall bladder with Vodka
Snake blood and beating heart with Vodka
Seared Breast of Goat

What I daren’t taste:
All manner of Dog
All manner of Cat

I’m a Dog person so wouldn’t mind the odd boiled Cat. Problem is mother was born the year of the Cat.

I woke up yesterday. Tired and dischevelled in a lonely part of Hai phong I stumbled out to be greated by three cats. Two boiled and de furred. One in the process of being de furred. The cutest cat, white with ginger and black specks. Almost vomitted.

i like eating spaghetti with kimchee.

^with regular tomato sauce in there too?

yes.

wow, that does seem weird.

It doesn’t seem weird to me.

Wait.

Nevermind.

I just realized I made fried rice with kimchee, spam, egg and onions last night.

^your fried rice sounds good.  i think i’ve made something similar.  kimchi and pasta sauce seems weird.  last friday, after watching sarah marshall, my gf and i went to a place that serves vietnamese cuisine as well as american/italian stuff.  so while my gf had a vietnamese combo plate with chicken and pork, i had a cheesesteak.  that was kind of weird when he would share in between bites.

I’ve just discovered nata de coco.  Weird coconut jelly thing made by bacteria.  If you chew them one way, they feel rubbery and plasticky and deflate, but if you chew them another way they crunch and burst juicily.

stevenvu - 08 May 2008 09:44 AM

I just copy and pasted this from my blog so sorry for being lazy. If anyone can beat eating anything like this, i’ll be rather impressed.

I’ve got the shits like there’s no tomorrow. Last night I shat some clear liquid that looked like it came off the set of Aliens and threw chunks more violently than ever before. My uncle said he had the cure.

We get to a dank squaler of a restaurant and a bowl is placed in front of me. In it are 2 beating hearts and some gall bladders. The dead disembowleld snake is being butchered in the corner. A shot glass is placed in front of me and a milk bottle full of a reddish substance comes from under the table. This is the fabled drink. A freshly gutted snakes heart, gall bladder and snakes blood mixed with snake wine. Shot properly and you can still feel the heart beat down your throat.

My 14 year old cousin drinks with me. She’s braver than me. Once that’s out the way, I feel much better. We head off and dance the night away.

Vietnam, A la carte:

Duck Fetus
Fried Turtle feet
Turtle shell stew
Turtle blood mixed with Hanoi Vodka
Turtle blood mixed and gall bladder with Hanoi Vodka
Boiled Rabbit
Fried Silk Worm lightly seasoned with salt
Fried Grasshopper lightly seasoned with salt and chilli
Lightly fried Snake Kidney
Snake stew
Snake blood mixed with Vodka
Snake blood and ground gall bladder with Vodka
Snake blood and beating heart with Vodka
Seared Breast of Goat

What I daren’t taste:
All manner of Dog
All manner of Cat

I’m a Dog person so wouldn’t mind the odd boiled Cat. Problem is mother was born the year of the Cat.

I woke up yesterday. Tired and dischevelled in a lonely part of Hai phong I stumbled out to be greated by three cats. Two boiled and de furred. One in the process of being de furred. The cutest cat, white with ginger and black specks. Almost vomitted.

so the question is: were you cured?