Odd food.

I watched a show about odd food and this guy went to several places in Japan. I can't recall the area in Tokyo, but it made it seem like the odd (to foreigners) food was in one place.

One was some little place that you'd post you picture after eating there. One dish was raw frog where the host ate the still beating heart. I think that was the same place that had lizzard sake, with the lizzard in the glass.

Another was a place that served turtle. The cook put a little blood and an organ in some sake for the folks to drink. I think they said the dinner was $200 a plate. Does that sound right?

Then of course there was a place for fugu. I believe they had deer penis sake too. :noooo:

Then on to a place for yakitori that had all kinds of parts of the chicken. Skewered roster testicles and chicken butt... I'll pass thanks!

 

ah, I saw a show like that once where they chopped off a turtles head than poured the blood in to a glass and drank it. Sick isn't even in it. Of course normal Japanese don't eat that shit, only the rich idiots who eat crap just because it is expensive. Japan is like that. If it's expensive then it MUST be good ! Doesn't matter if it taste like crap. That's one thing I really hate about their eating habits.

Yakumo

 

A lot of these places the guy went were little, hole in the wall spots.

 

Well indeed, whenever I was a "guest" in Japan I tended to end up in one of those snooty places. I could well live without them though, lead me to the yakitori anyday (any part of the chicken will do fine - except the cartlidge).

If we are doing weird food I had tadpoles floating in a clear tofu jelly so it looked like they were swimming. Must have been hard and expensive to make and tasted like a jelly made of salt imo.

Oh and raw horse. Bloody expensive.

Worse one for me is the sake with fish scales in it. Cannot stand that stuff. When you wake up the next day with a fishy hangover it is just so wrong...

 

I ate that crap. It's called Basashi. My friend who lives in Yamanashi gave it to me but wouldn't say what it was until I ate it. The stuff a guy does to impress a woman :crying:

Had that too. The smell of Sake alone makes me sick but add those smelly fish skins and it becomes a whole new weapon to mankind !

Yakumo

 

I agree no need to cook stuff that's alive, like lobster or fish. Then again, I guess if you want the fresh stuff at least that's somewhat of a guarantee. Still no excuse.

Yep the cartlidge seems odd to me too. Kind of like the chicken feet or bird nest soup I've seen in Chinese places.

 

You probably do...they're just a little more inhibited here in the States about showing it, no?

 

WOW....well thanks, reading that before supper,...good way for me to start a new diet, just read this topic


Ryan

 

Glad to be of service.

The show got worse when the traveled to Tailand.

 

Like in here things are different...

French cousine blows, yet like is expensive as shit every snob out there want to eat that crap. I mean, really, snails? frog? that's gross!

 

@Shadowlayer: Your cousine blows? Send her my way, please! ;-D

I've stayed away from the weird stuff by being the selfish foreigner and offending my hosts by refusing to eat it.

But I did get tricked once when I was served Shirako. Tasted and looked like fishy yogurt, and it is, so to speak. It's fish testicles.

Of course everyone knows natto. Ever seen/tried Hoya? It's a living creature that is found in lakes somewhere in Japan. Looks pretty much like an alien egg, or a cocoon (from the Cocoon movies). Disgusting.

 

Somehow i think that might get taken out of context...

But i agree, most sushi is nasty.

 

Indeed, the texture is like plastic bubbles to me.

Anyways, yeah people also see me with a weird look when I say I kill puppies with a hammer.

They cant see the artist inside me...

 

Who was the first person to look at hoya and think "Gee, that looks tasty, lets have that for dinner"?

Right... puppies = P

 

A mental patient.

 

How can you tell the gonads from anything else?? The thing looks like an excised goiter!