When you are in a new place, foods are of course different and there are places that serve exotic foods? In Palawan, here in the Philippines, they have this certain food called cocorococo, it's crocodile meat cooked in coconut milk, I haven't tried this but when I visited the place, I found out that many foreigners are enjoying the dish. In Angono, province of Rizal, there is this place called Balaw-balaw. The place serves snake meat, monitor lizard (bayawak), dog stew, etc.
My curiousity with foods is limited to normally eaten foods prepared differently but not to eating the unusual like camaru, a grasshopper like insect that usually infested rice fields, to get rid of them the farmers in some provinces here eat them.
How about you? Have you eaten exotic foods? or will you try them?
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FriendsForever posted on Aug 09, 2006
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pinkblush said on Aug 09, 2006....
Pampanga is a place where exotic food dwells. I enjoy every food served at exotic restos. I have eaten snake's meat, locusts, other insects haha and frogs, bayawak too and lots more. It's merely enjoying the taste and how it has been flavored and cooked. -
FriendsForever said on Aug 09, 2006....
nice to know you have the courage. no matter how i dare myself, i can't. maybe if i do not know what's being served. -
Zayda said on Aug 09, 2006....
I guess it depends on what you define as exotic. I have eaten squid (not so exotic), octopus, buffalo, bear, snake, and ostrich. -
durianshortcake said on Aug 09, 2006....
This was my topic for my final research paper in college. I was able to try rabbit meat and monitor lizard (only by accident). I can't bear to put the camaro in my mouth! It looked like a sleeping baby on my fork! -
silverwhisper said on Aug 09, 2006....
i consider myself a culinary adventurer: there is very, very little i will not try. and i find that w/ the right seasonings, things i might not otherwise like can be wonderful. i detest okra, for example--its slimy and unpleasant--yet in indian cuisine it becomes a really interesting ingredient. edq -
Zayda said on Aug 09, 2006....
ohh..i forgot, i've also had dove, deer, and elk. silver: i am not a big fan of okra, except, i like it pickled. an d as a southern girl, i had plenty exposure to fried okra growing up; with okra the key is to get it superbly crisp, otherwise, it's slimy and mushy. pickling it, btw, takes away the sliminess. i detest anchovies on pizza but am a huge fan of anchovy paste as an ingredient in many other things. the aversion to anchovies on pizza comes, i think, because i don't like the way they look, and way back when, when i bartended, a couple would come eat in the bar and always order a large double anchovy, double onion pizza [shudders] i love all kinds of seafood, but i simply cannot eat scallops as much as i would love to. they make me violently ill, which was an unpleasant experience to discover -
silverwhisper said on Aug 09, 2006....
let's see...exotic things i've eaten: boar, buffalo, conch, goat, goose, octopus, ostrich, pheasant, quail, squid, venison... anchovies whole are to be avoided, IMHO but if broken down as a layer of flavor to something else, sign me up! shame about the scallops, zayda: i love them. but i still have nothing good to say about okra. :> ed -
quidnunc said on Aug 09, 2006....
mmmm.... i am not much of an adventurer when it comes to food but i've managed to eat rabbit, wild boar, deer, frog, and goose. -
Zayda said on Aug 09, 2006....
damnit, i forgot about frog. how could a girl from the south forget about frog! /sigh silver, it's weird, admitedly. no other seafood makes me violently ill. i love oysters and clams. i could eat my weight in raw oysters with hot sauce. :> of course they could have just been bad scallops but the experience was so bad that i have not ventured to try them again in years. and, a huge part of me doubts they were bad since the other person eating them didn't also get violently ill -
FriendsForever said on Aug 09, 2006....
Zayda: You are correct, exotic depends on how you define it. Silver: you detest okra but i love it, cooked steamed with sauteed shrimp paste or bagoong over newly cooked rice. I thought I've never eaten exotic meat but based on what you have written i've tasted some of them, like buffalo - it is called tapang kalabaw here, i can even prepare it myself. I also had a taste of rabbit, octopus, stingray, scallops, ferns, ostrich (a very expensive meat, about 2000 pesos per kilo), venison, wild boar. I detest anchovies in pizza too, also in pasta. The first time I tasted it in a party, the host offered them plus proudly telling me she prepared them herself, it was pasta & pizza with anchovies. The pizza, I was able to finish a half of the slice given to me but the pasta was maiden hair with anchovies in tomato sauce and some other herbs, gosh, I almost gag when I tasted it. Quidnoc: i also had a taste of goose meat, actually, i love it. How about something like monkey, dog (will never dare), python or even cobra, some drink cobra blood fresh... -
pinkblush said on Aug 09, 2006....
ahh.. forgot about camaro.. my favorite :) hehe .. creamy taste. Camaro costs 40pesos a cup here, sometimes even 60pesos so i think it's a bit expensive. -
yankee328 said on Aug 09, 2006....
i'm not sure about having crocodiles but because of the nature of my job - i work for a small publisher of bilingual dictionaries and international cookbooks - i've had a number of foods that i hadn't had before, and as a new yorker i've had things that would be strange to other people. i don't know much about phillipine food, although i know a lot about indian, japanese, chinese, korean, thai and vietnamese food. what are some common ingredients? -
FriendsForever said on Aug 10, 2006....
camaro, actually is okay, pinkblush, coz it' vegetarian even if it's an insect at least it's not cockroach, the dirty thing. I don't know if it's true but in some places news says they are eaten, yuckiee!!... yankee: any spice will do may be, depends on what your planning to eat. :D -
durianshortcake said on Aug 10, 2006....
I was suddenly reminded about a chef from Discovery Travel & Living. I'm sorry, I forgot his last name, but I think his first name is Andrew. Anyway, he went to Japan and he tried the exotic dishes there. He is brave I should say. He ate a frog's heart--still pumping and all! Eeew. -
FriendsForever said on Aug 10, 2006....
I've seen something like that in Lifestyle Network and even eating crocodile brain. iiiiiiiiiw... ... -
FriendsForever said on Aug 10, 2006....
[b]durian[/b]: speaking of durian, i love it. candies... ice cream... salad... name it i've tried it. and i also love davao, are you from there? I'm not from there but it's one of my favorites. -
durianshortcake said on Aug 10, 2006....
[b]FF[/b] (yes it's you FriendsForever hehe), nope I'm not from Davao. But I also love Durian--candies, that is. The fruit's aroma isn't so appealing but that's what makes it "attractive". Hmmm, could it be considered exotic? I think so...Hmmm... -
silverwhisper said on Aug 10, 2006....
durian: for most non-asians, durians are themselves [i]very[/i] exotic. :> most americans, for example, have never seen one, never mind tasted one. ed -
hotaka said on Aug 10, 2006....
I had sparrow once. An Australian friend said she had heard about it and wanted to try it. I said I would try it with her. I imagined getting tiny pieces of meat on a stick or something but instead a whole roasted bird came out, skull and all. I felt so bad for the poor thing. It was mostly bone and though I heard you are supposed to eat the skull I couldn't bring myself to do it. I don't have refined tastebuds and many foods taste similar to me. I don't feel like eating any animals that I enjoy watching when they are alive or can recognize on the plate. -
quidnunc said on Aug 10, 2006....
durian: I also thought you're from Davao... FF: i forgot to state that i also had the chance to eat balut, dog, and goat (will never try again!) -
FriendsForever said on Aug 10, 2006....
quidnoc, what did you not like in balut, dog and goat i understand though goat is just like lamb. I will never eat dog meat, I had a taste of goat and will never die even if I never had a taste of it again in my entire life. Balut is ok, but I am avoiding it because of too high cholesterol and will trigger the increase of my uric acid. How abot dinuguan, who had tried. I don't like it too. -
pinkblush said on Aug 11, 2006....
Dinuguan, I love it! With puto ofcourse. Watched a Korean Cuisine show and the host visited SM Megamall, they served dinuguan and other exotic food, when she ate dinuguan the manager told her that it was pork blood and I saw the look on her face, she wanted to throw up! Haha! ^___^ -
durianshortcake said on Aug 11, 2006....
pinkblush, I couldn't stop from laughing (sorry if that's being mean). Koreans aren't used to eating pork, what more its blood? -
FriendsForever said on Aug 11, 2006....
ohh i saw a replay of that show but didn't know that koreans are not fun of pork. i thought it's just the pork blood. but to those who eat dinuguan, careful. you know that pig is not a clean animal and most parasites are carried thru blood, it might carries some parasites that cannot be killed by simply cooking... i'm not a member of some religion that prohibits eating dinuguan and the like but i adhere to these practice :) -
Susmaryosep said on Aug 13, 2006....
Give me the normal pilipino food anytime, like bulalo, sisik, and sizzling litid! Exotic things like Balut, no way! :-) But lechon, and chcken bacolod, yes! -
FriendsForever said on Aug 13, 2006....
susmaryosep: chicken inasal of bacolod is really tempting. how about pancit molo, longanisa of vigan? what more have you tried among the filipino cuisine? hotaka: isn't sparrow really too skinny for food? -
Susmaryosep said on Aug 14, 2006....
Pancit Molo is actually what the Cantonese call "Wantan" soup. I like it, especially made by my friend Babes' granny. others? quite a bit, but I forgot the names. except Sinigang and hipon, which I can cook quite well.. Adobo? Longanisa i don't like, but Bangus and garlic rice, masarap! -
FriendsForever said on Aug 15, 2006....
Susmaryosep: It means your not into pork but yes bangus si real something especially the boneless daing. I feel like eating again. -
Susmaryosep said on Aug 15, 2006....
I love Lechon!!!! Expecially from the Comedor Restaurant in Makati :-) Must try that again on the 30th.. Another one Crispy Pata , masarap! -
FriendsForever said on Aug 17, 2006....
haven't tried lechon at comedor but one i can recommend is elar's lechon. real crispy....hmmmm.... -
Susmaryosep said on Aug 17, 2006....
Where's elars's. Is there a Makati outlet? -
wordplay said on Aug 17, 2006....
The other day, a lizard got into my coffee cup. I wouldn't drink out of it after that. I can't imagine having a bit of monitor lizard for lunch or dinner. Yuck! -
Susmaryosep said on Aug 17, 2006....
Lechon is not a lizard .. Roast pig, roasted in a way that only Pinoys, and Chinese know how........ Sluuurp! -
Susmaryosep said on Aug 17, 2006....
You mean you can't wash the cup with a ton of detergent..?
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