This blog was dormant for a while, as my family and I have been travelling in South East Asia (yes, it was awesome - and so was the food!).
As we were gagging at a local delicacy in Manila - a cooked unhatched chicken embryo - it occurred to me that almost every country has some foods that make foreigners' wave their hands and swear to never try it. As Europeans, we found many such foods in Asia (from chicken feet, fermented soy beans, to aforementioned, ahm, embryos). But there are quite a few in Europe as well. Take Scottish haggis (which I love!) - sheep stomach stuffed with offal. Yum.
As we were gagging at a local delicacy in Manila - a cooked unhatched chicken embryo - it occurred to me that almost every country has some foods that make foreigners' wave their hands and swear to never try it. As Europeans, we found many such foods in Asia (from chicken feet, fermented soy beans, to aforementioned, ahm, embryos). But there are quite a few in Europe as well. Take Scottish haggis (which I love!) - sheep stomach stuffed with offal. Yum.
