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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What is the grossest food you've eaten in China?
There have been some recent articles about 'gross' Chinese food, and it got me thinking about the grossest thing I've eaten. I feel like this should be distinguished from the worst thing I've eaten here - a plate of disanxian gaifan that still haunts me. By gross I mean the idea of it is 'bleugh' though the taste could be good or bad.
Wasps were definitely mine, though if you closed your eyes they weren't that made tasting. And 2nd (though I admit I havent actually eaten it, someone just told me about it last night) is baby chickens in the egg. The idea of that just makes my skin crawl.
Pig's brain was bad in taste, texture and the idea of it was hardly appetizing, but getting a pig's penis stuck in my throat was probably the grossest. Got me out of a parking ticket though. WAHEY!
(Now i've definitely made that joke on here before. I swear to God this place is like a daily injection of deja vu)
Scandinavian:
maybe you should stop watching Groundhog Day each morning with the cereals.
probably a mouthful of "fresh air". The Guangdong kitchen isn't teaming with bugs, snakes and those kinds of things. Sure a bit of donkey an turtle crawls onto the table now and then. Cow stomach is often used. Taste wise, not too bad, the consistency is awful.
Hunan is the province I've spent second most time in. It is difficult to get to a point where it is possible to judge if the food is gross as everything is spicy as a hot day in hell. Stinky tofu probably should be on my list too.
Durian is by far the nastiest thing I've ever tasted. To me, that fruit is proof it is a cruel world.
smoglife:
I had totally wiped Durian from my mind. Totally agree on that front. Worse than Wasps. Much worse.
Stinky tofu, duck bill, cicada, cow lung, duck blood - the list goes on.
'Baby chickens in the egg', had that in the Philippines, it doesn't taste as bad as you'd think haha. Maybe it's time for you guys to go back to fish'n'chips, Swedish meatballs, biscuits'n'gravy or whatever heavenly delicacies you are used to eat on a daily basis. Durian rules
Lamb and pig eyes, dog and cat meat, sea horses. I haven't actually eaten any of these but have witnessed others doing so first hand.
Baby birds. I did not actually eat them. I love animals, they are much more predicable than people.
rat (zhejiang,isan), fried grasshoppers (isan), fish eyeball (zhejiang)
*drank fresh cobra blood/bile (taipei)
*looked at Balut a 100 times in Phil. ain't got the nerve yet and never will!