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gvdubI TiVO'd a Travel Channel program the other night called Bizarre Foods: Asia.
The sections on Japanese "bizarre foods" (getamono) were quite interesting, including restaurants that specialize in things like beating frog hearts and all varieties of what get euphemistically called "fries" here in the states, as well as things like lizard sake and frog sashimi (presented on the skin of the frog it came from, complete with head staring up at you). The getamono restaurant they frequented has a name that translates as "Morning Erection". I don't know that I'll ever really understand Japanese culture.
I also learned that the traditional ingredients for bird's nest soup are the glue-like swallow saliva that glues together the bird's nest and frog ovaries.
There were the obligatory segments on insect cuisine.
I think my favorite was the charcoal grilled "frog-on-a-stick". There's just somehing about the street food nature of stuff cooked and served on a stick tht appeals to me, i guess. I consider myself a fairly adventurous eater, but there's some of this stuff I'd give a pass to. However, grill me up that frog, and I'm there.
The sections on Japanese "bizarre foods" (getamono) were quite interesting, including restaurants that specialize in things like beating frog hearts and all varieties of what get euphemistically called "fries" here in the states, as well as things like lizard sake and frog sashimi (presented on the skin of the frog it came from, complete with head staring up at you). The getamono restaurant they frequented has a name that translates as "Morning Erection". I don't know that I'll ever really understand Japanese culture.
I also learned that the traditional ingredients for bird's nest soup are the glue-like swallow saliva that glues together the bird's nest and frog ovaries.
There were the obligatory segments on insect cuisine.
I think my favorite was the charcoal grilled "frog-on-a-stick". There's just somehing about the street food nature of stuff cooked and served on a stick tht appeals to me, i guess. I consider myself a fairly adventurous eater, but there's some of this stuff I'd give a pass to. However, grill me up that frog, and I'm there.
