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Exotic dishes are considered delicacies in different countries, sometimes quite different from what we're used to seeing on your dining table. Let some dishes of Russian cuisine to residents of other countries too, may seem strange - for example, the Europeans are very surprising dishes such as pickles, jelly, say, or jelly, but be that as it may, our culinary tradition is much more humane in relation to consumers and ... dishes. Why - you will learn from this collection.
1. Octopus
In Korea, this delicacy is called "Sannakji." Dish is a live octopus seasoned with sesame and sesame oil. Just before serving the animal is cut into small pieces, and then eat more wriggly tentacles.
Muscles cooked octopus while retain the ability to shrink, so special attention when eating meals should be paid to ensure that in its death throes animal suckers rests on the tongue or mouth and not to block the airways of man. There were times when foodies died from suffocation by careless eating live octopus.
2. Frogs
Eating live octopus - not only culinary tradition of Asian countries, which may seem abhorrent. In China, Japan and Vietnam is quite popular dish, which is the main ingredient - live frog. Admire how Japanese masterfully deals with these exquisite dishes, but better not to watch video at lunchtime - risk to spoil your appetite.
Most often, "delicacy" made from specially grown frogs, the process of cooking is simple - to remove the frog skin, gut, and then cut into pieces and spread on a plate with garnish, the main decoration delicacy - still live frog head. Sometimes as "highlights" served separately beating heart.
3. Tarantulas
Discerning palate can hardly be surprising delicacies, say, deer or bull testicles penis, but the gastronomic predilections Briton Louis Cole plunged into shock even seasoned gluttons.
Cole regularly records video with eating them different "dishes", among them - live tarantulas and scorpions. Briton shot has 36 clips one another disgusting, to read them you can on his official channel when youtube.com. However, you'd better not see.
4. fruit bats
Asia again and again - culinary delights, cooking and eating them just right amount to cruel treatment of animals.
Representatives Megabat family - one of the most popular Asian specialties. Fruit bats, which are also called flying dogs (not to be confused with bats!), Eating in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and cooking methods are very different - they stewed, boiled soups, fried in deep fat and cook on the grill. Tried flying dogs taste claim that their meat is similar to chicken - it has almost no fat, but a lot of protein and is easily digested.
I must say, in almost all Asian countries, flying foxes are killed before cooking, but there is an exception: one of the national dishes of the island of Guam - fruit bats living in coconut milk. Animals are caught, washed (and thanks for that) and then entirely, together with wool and wings dipped in vats of boiling water, making sure that at the time of fruit bat on the table certainly was alive. The finished dish is seasoned with coconut milk, used as a garnish vegetables.
If you ever "lucky" to prepare this dish yourself, keep in mind that comes from fruit bats peculiar smell of urine and faeces - most of his life flying dogs carried upside down, so their body is always a certain amount of faeces. To get rid of the "miraculous" flavor, fruit bats should be washed thoroughly, and during cooking can be added to water the garlic, onion, chili ... or beer.
5. Snakes
Eating live snakes while even for India remains exotic. Chief specialist "snake kitchen" is considered a farmer Soutar Nayak, a resident of the Indian state of Orissa. In 2007, a farmer who was then 46 years old, famous for having swallowed live snakes - in his own words, "just for fun". The man admits that he began to eat reptiles in childhood after his friend was bitten by a poisonous snake, "If a snake bite us why we can not bite the snake?"
Nayak eating snakes alive, without any heat treatment. For several years the local farmer deemed a "star" and even manages to earn money through their eating habits.
6. Larvae
Casu marzu - one of the most unusual delicacies that you can enjoy in Italy, he is considered a specialty of the island of Sardinia, and is popular with both tourists and locals. Pottage is not nothing but a cheese made from sheep's milk, which swarmed live insect larvae. Larvae promote rapid disintegration of fat contained in the cheese, so that the product differs surprising tenderness and gentleness. In the process of decomposition of fat from cheese stands liquid called lagrima (in trans. With SARD. - "Tears"). Before eating cheese can be cleaned from the specific "seasoning", but the true connoisseurs of Sardinian cuisine leave everything as it is, trying to enjoy each larva.
7. Ants
If you're not too squeamish in eating and you happen to travel in Denmark, carefully look at the metropolitan restaurant Noma - it serves delicacy of lettuce, seasoned chilled (to creep slowly) ants. It is worth the treat is not cheap - about $ 300 per serving, positioning it as an institution does not contain gluten (proteins present in cereals) alternative to croutons. Judging by the feedback of visitors of the restaurant to taste the ants look like ginger, coriander and lemon grass (genus cereals).
8. Shrimp
What are the similarities between Japanese dishes "odori ebi" (translated as "dancing shrimp") and Chinese delicacies called "drunken shrimp"? In this and in another case of shrimp served at the table alive, only in Japan for the preparation of this variety of sashimi used baby birds - animals are roasted over a slow fire, so they are not lost, and immediately eaten by dipping in sake, and in China the dishes are prepared from Adult shrimp and served in hot "soup" of Baijiu - strong Chinese liquor.
To fully enjoy the Chinese or Japanese delicacies, you'll need a fair amount of skill - animals agile enough to actively move their legs and even try to get out of the dish. You must also carefully chew each shrimp, otherwise they will continue to move in the stomach.
9. Cockroaches
As is known, in the United States are often held contests for eating on the rate of different dishes, and American consumers are willing to absorb huge amounts of Big Macs and not just hot dogs, but, say, insects. Such competition is not only disgusting, but dangerous for life - so the 32-year-old Edward Archbold, member of one of these events, has died after a few dozen worms ate the whole bucket and giant cockroaches.
In some ways the death Archbold can be considered heroic - he hoped to win the grand prize - a live python to give it to his friend. An autopsy showed that he died from suffocation American - his airways were clogged paws cockroaches.
10. Acne
Japanese national cuisine is famous for its originality - except frogs and shrimp (see paras. 2 and 8, respectively), the Japanese eat eel alive. According to Raymond Blanc (Raymond Blanc), the famous chef, during a trip to Japan, he had to try this unusual delicacy - to set off the taste of eels seasoned with vinegar and sake, and then swallow whole.
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