Indonesian soup flying foxes
This soup will get not only the bird flying foxes, the meat of which is not has a pronounced taste, but also her wings, fur, claws and fangs.
Century-old eggs
In Thailand and China, local residents and the brave foreigners love to eat the hundred years chicken eggs. For the preparation of such strange dishes eggs directly in the skin immersed in a mixture of lime, salt and ash, and tightly closed with capacity for up to 4 months. Protein and the yolk becomes like jelly and darken to brown and green shades, emitting a strong aroma of ammonia.
Korean favorite snack of beondegi
Pupae of the silkworm are boiled or simmered with spices and served with sauce. Woody taste of this delicacy, many Koreans also compared with rubber.
A true Northern delicacy – MACtac
The people of Canada, Greenland and Chukotka often suffer from lack of vitamins C and D. Therefore, the Inuit and Eskimos have learned to freeze the skin and subcutaneous fat of the Beluga whales, sometimes fried them in breadcrumbs. However, most often MACtac eaten raw.
The bird's nest soup
Expensive and terrible at the same time a dish of Swifts ' nests-the so-called salanganes gourmets will cost a tidy sum. The nests themselves consist of dried bird saliva, so the soup is very similar to jelly.
Mexican huitlacoche
This is a terrible dish is produced by fungus that affects corn on the cob. The spores grow very fast and eventually healthy grains begin to resemble in appearance the truffle. They are allowed in many local dishes, calling huitlacoche a national delicacy.
Extreme Japanese dessert – cookies.
Quite a modern dish that will impress all fans of animal protein. Crispy wafers made from rice flour generously seasoned with boiled wild wasps.
Sannakji – life snack
In Korean restaurants try to offer quite a terrible dish called sannakji. This popular snack is prepared from the twitching tentacles of a live octopus, generously seasoning it with vegetable oil.
Mexican escamoles
Raw and fried eggs of giant black ants, seasoned with chili and guacamole sauce, often served with tacos. It's a strange dish, in the opinion of Mexicans, not only delicious, but also useful. Due to the fact that eggs are difficult to obtain, escamoles is quite expensive.
Drunken shrimp
Before serving live shrimp pour strong alcohol. Because of this, they almost cease to move and do not resist during a cleaning of his shell.
Latin kui
In Peru, Ecuador and Colombia are very fond of fry or simmer the entire carcass Guinea pigs, feeding them on large platter with vegetables. The taste reminds kui tender and juicy rabbit meat.
Stinking head
The Eskimos in Alaska, traditionally cooked the famous dish "Tepa", which consists of the rotten head of the fish. This delicacy is perceived by local residents rather as the best way to get nutrients from whole prey. After the catch of salmon heads, and sometimes their entrails placed in large wooden barrels for several weeks buried under the ground. The resulting dish is eaten raw, oblivious to the horrible scent.
Blood and milk
African tribes Maasai during drought fill your water balance on cow's milk mixed with animal blood. The cow is not killed for meat, as it is quite valuable. Masai doing a little bloodletting, incapable of much harm livestock.
Bloody pancakes
Scandinavian cooks bake pancakes in a special way, adding to the dough instead of milk blood. This strange dish is served with venison or pork and more like a blood sausage than usual rosy dessert.
The haukeli — legacy of the Vikings
One of the strangest Icelandic dishes haukal made from the meat of sharks. However, due to the large amount of urea in fresh to eat this kind of fish is impossible. So the Vikings put cut meat in a pit and covered with stones that the animals are not dug up the prey. For several months all the urea out of rotten meat. Then it is dried in the open air for a few months, while the aroma of rotten fish do not leave this dish then.
Eye tuna
The Japanese love to prepare sushi braised or roasted eye tuna, which can also be found in the supermarket. Many argue that the taste and texture of this delicacy reminds of an octopus with a rubber skin and soft fatty tissue.
Blood tofu
The people of China and Hong Kong like to add in your meals such a strange product, as blood tofu. It is prepared from pork or duck coagulated blood. The dish is cooked to a state of jelly, cut into pieces and add to the local soups and vegetable stews.
African caterpillars of mopani
Bright caterpillar mopane was announced as the yummiest and most are edible, providing local residents a free source of protein. Fried caterpillars and boiled, pre-drying them in the sun.
Shiokara
Shiokara is one of the most peculiar dishes that you can find in Japan. It's made from squid or other seafood, marinated in its own juices along with entrails. The dish is sealed and kept in the marinade for at least a month before you get on the table Japanese gourmet.