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| Itsy bitsy spider |
In Cambodia the habit
of eating fried tarantulas began during a period of starvation in history, but
nowadays they are considered to be quite a
delicacy.
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| Balut |
Balut is a “snack” consisting in a
half-fertilized duck or chicken egg, served with a little salt after being
boiled. One can find it all over the streets and markets of Philippines,
Vietnam,
Laos and
Cambodia and it is
as popular as hotdogs are in the US.
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| Snake & Scorpion wine |
This
unusual type of liquor can be found in Asia mostly and
it is made out of a dipping Cobra or scorpion into a rice wine bottle.
After a few months of fermentation,
the venom is dissolved and the drink is good to serve
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| Cobra heart |
In
Vietnam one can
serve a live cobra’s heart: some eat it raw, along with a cobra blood chaser
while others prefer to have it with some rice wine
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| Bird nest |
The saliva of the birds give this
soup its unicity. It is one of the most expensive products consumed by humans,
because of the difficulty in getting it.
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| Baby mice wine |
Traditional in China and
Korea, baby mice wine is
considered to be a “health tonic”. The confessed taste: raw gasoline. While
still alive, newborn mice are thrown into bottles full of rice wine and left
there to ferment.
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| Casu marzu |
This is a type of cheese that few
people would try, as it is stuffed with insect larva. Often referred to as
“maggot cheese”. It is consumed while the living beings inside it are still
alive, otherwise it is said to be toxic.
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