Projects of strange eating habits, Cclass 2012-13

2. Thai Bat Soup/Grilled Chinese Rat
• Both of these dishes are on the list for the same
reason: the meat used to prepare these local
specialities can contain dangerous parasites or
pathogens.
• If improperly cooked, the meat from these
creatures can cause serious illness, or even
death in very extreme cases.

3. Fugu fish
•The intestines, ovaries and liver of fugu (or blowfish)
contain a poison called tetrodotoxin, which is 1,200
times deadlier than cyanide.
•A single fish has enough poison to kill 30 people.
•the price of a fugu dish can cost up to $200.
•40 kinds of fugu are caught in Japan, and Japanese
consume 10,000 tons of the fish every year.

4. Tarantula dish
The fried tarantula is to Cambodians a sweet snack that
kids beg their parents for. The tarantula is a free-range
burst of protein. Apart from appreciating spiders for their
nutrition, many Cambodian women believe that eating
tarantulas makes one beautiful.

5. Snake Soup
A favourite winter warmer in Hong Kong, snake soup is
considered somewhat of a gourmet dish. Most of the
city's snake meat is now delivered chilled or frozen from
China, As it seems with almost all exotic meats, many
say it tastes like chicken.

6. Baby mice wine
is a traditional Chinese
and Korean "health tonic,"
which apparently tastes
like raw gasoline. Little
mice, eyes still closed,
are taken from the
embrace of their loving
mothers and put (while
still alive) into a bottle of
rice wine.

7. Durian Fruit
•The durian fruit is quite possibly the smelliest snack
in the world. It's literally a forbidden fruit in many
places in Southeast Asia. The fruit's smell has been
described as similar to that of rotten garbage.
•The durian is filled with four seeds covered with a
thick, creamy flesh. The durian is native to Thailand
and can be found throughout Asia and even at Asian
markets in the United States.

8. Raw blood soup is a dish made with raw blood of ducks
or geese (sometimes pigs), with peanuts and herbs on
top. It is very rich in proteins. It is a Vietnamese dish
which is usually consumed while drinking alcohol. Blood
soup has the oddest texture and tastes strangely
metallic.

9. Scorpion soup
– as its name implies, is a soup made from
scorpions. Preparing and eating scorpion soup
can be a dangerous task Scorpions are eaten in
the south of China. Scorpions have a woody
taste and should be eaten whole, except for the
tip of the tail – though some recipes suggest that
the venom in the tail is rendered harmless by
cooking.

10. Other names: pidan,
millennium egg, hundred-year
egg, preserved egg

11. Ostrich egg omelet
It can weigh more than 4 pounds. No right-
minded person should eat a whole ostrich egg
omelet by themselves. After all, it really is hard to
find a frying pan big enough to cook up this
monster.

12. Eskimo ice cream
It is a frosty Arctic dish made with reindeer fat. Fat from
other local animals, may also be mixed up in. Other
ingredients in Eskimo ice cream include fish, dried
salmon eggs or berries. Like regular ice cream, akutaq is
creamy and cold. Traditional akutaq made by Eskimos in
communities isn't made with sugar although the newer
version usually includes some kind of sweet in order to
be more appealing to tourists.