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It is not known who inspires the chefs to create these masterpieces. The ingredients of the described dishes can cause either laughter, or disgust, or surprise, but they are very capricious in cooking. And the chefs who can cook them deliciously deserve respect.
Hash
Far from poor people can afford this traditional dish. It is popular in the Middle East. It is prepared like this: the beef stomach is stuffed with brains and edible parts of the head. It is brewed in a thick broth, not very pleasant aroma. Then the dish is seasoned with pepper, lemon, garlic, and other spices, and salted. After going through all the circles of cooking hell, the dish turns out to be rich and tasty, it is served with crumbled lavash, with fresh vegetables, herbs, and cheese. And yes, this is not an everyday dish, usually it is prepared for some event.
Tuna eyeballs
This is a very authentic dish, and only a person who has everything in order with the nervous system can eat it. This dish looks at you from the plate and looks disgusting, but eye lovers claim that it tastes very tender and resembles squid in texture. You don’t have to go to a restaurant to enjoy this delicacy. Anything for “tuna eyes” can be purchased at a grocery store in China or Japan. The more eyes, the fatter and more muscular, the better.
Drunk shrimp
There is nothing wrong with shrimp, you might think, all the more certainly flavored with alcohol, judging by the eloquent name. And it is true! Only shrimps are not boiled, not fried, not stewed – they are not subjected to any heat treatment. They just sleep in a hungover sleep and wait for a daredevil to finally find who can swallow them. And there are such. For you in a Chinese restaurant, shrimp can be boiled, yes, before or after alcoholic marinade.
Fried Brain Sandwich
An Indian sandwich, in principle, is no different from our usual sandwiches. Only instead of cutlets, beef (pork) brains are used. In fact, brains are a very delicate ingredient that can be easily spoiled. A sandwich is served with sauces – mustard or tomato, onion and pickles.
Bird’s nest soup
A very strange dish, and each time it tastes differently. This Asian dish is made from a common swiftlet bird’s nest. It can be filled with a spicy chick or egg filling, or it can be empty. The nest is deep-fried and served steeped in chicken broth. The nest is valued for the saliva with which the birds fasten their nest.
Rocky Mountain Oysters
This dish has nothing in common with either oysters or mountain rocks, and do not hope. And with the second name – cowboy caviar – also not. These are the testes of a bull, soaked, cleaned, rolled in batter and spices and fried until golden brown. Very delicate taste – you can’t drag it by the ears! And the name … maybe a disguise? Not every dish will be tough.
Yin and Yang Fish
At the same time dead, at the same time live fish – this delicacy is served in some Chinese restaurants, although it is banned all over the world for inhumane treatment of the living. Live carp are fried in a pan so that it remains alive and on a plate at the client’s while the latter is enjoying delicious meat, catching the air with her opening mouth.
Veal tripe with giblets and spices
It looks like an ordinary sausage, but the Scots are silent about its contents, so as not to shock you. In fact, this is a lamb, or rather its lungs, liver and heart, stuffed into a sheep’s stomach and boiled in broth. It is served pompously, to the sound of bagpipes and a glass of whiskey.
Fried tarantula
What is a curiosity for a tourist is a traditional snack for a Cambodian. A-ping, a type of poisonous spider, is sold right on the street, among other unusual street food. The tarantula is doused in sugar and salt, fried in garlic oil. The crunchy appetizer is ready! The most delicious thing in it is the brown abdomen, where the waste products of the spider are concentrated.
Ant caviar Escamoles
This Mexican dish is ant larvae harvested from agave roots. Those who try this caviar compare its taste with the taste of a nut, and it looks like a handful of pine nuts, the texture in the mouth is identical to poppy. Caviar is fried or served as a side dish with an omelet or taco.