11. Turtle jelly – Guilinggao


Originating in China, this dish is made from the powdered shell of a tortoise which is put in to boil with herbs for a long time until it becomes jelly-like. Originally made for medicinal purposes, this weird Asian food has become a dessert today.

8: Drunken Shrimp

Usually when you see a dish with the word ‘drunken’ in it, it is assumed that it is cooked in some kind of an alcohol. However, that’s not the case with drunken shrimp which is very much alive, drunk and swimming in a pool of alcohol which makes its movements slow. The eater is supposed to first decapitate the shrimp and then eat the body.

3: Fish Sperm – Shirako[url][/url]

I'll eat some
only when am high on some heavy whiskey.

I'll eat some
only when am high on some heavy whiskey.

1: Balut

Okay, brace yourselves! This Filipino dish is a duck egg but the yolk has partially developed as a baby duck. The half-developed baby duck embryo is boiled alive and eaten in the shell itself.

Source: https://www.mrsgeek.com/11-weird-asian-foods-many-dare-try/

Is this why Asians are intelligent?

I'll stick to rice and noodles...

I've had Guilinggao several times. It has a bitter-sweet taste.

Bizarre food thingys....

I'm not Andrew Zimmern na...

Give me that Fish Sperm ..... but I must first fry it with palmoil or ororo before using it as butter to eat an agege bread

I'm not yet done with Nigerian food. The turtle jelly looks good tho