It is said that Chinese foodies are very powerful and they will eat anything that is non-toxic. However, there are dozens of special foods in foreign countries that even Cantonese people who bring condiments to the zoo are daunted by.
Not to mention anything else, Chinese people do not eat the following five kinds of food. To be correct, they dare not eat them. However, foreigners eat them and even think they are delicious. Saudi Arabia : Desert Lizard Saudis like to go to the desert to wash in the sand, and in the desert of Saudi Arabia , there is an animal that the Saudis like to eat the most, the desert lizard. In the desert, Saudis like to look for lizards with shotguns and shoot them in the head to make their most delicious dinner.
How much do Saudis love lizards? In the absence of fire, they will choose to eat them raw. The Saudis' love for lizards has led to the formation of an industrial chain here. Foreigners from Yemen and other countries specialize in hunting and killing lizards in the Saudi desert and selling them to the Saudis.
Philippines : Balut Balut refers to duck embryos, a street snack in the Philippines, as popular as tea eggs in my country. The preparation is extremely simple. Boil the duck embryo eggs, peel the shells and dip them in soy sauce or vinegar before eating. It's not that this is disgusting, it just feels like the way to eat it is not kind.
Among tourist delicacies in the United States, Philippine duck eggs and Vietnamese chicken embryos top the list of disgusting foods. Japan: Wasp shortbread. As the name suggests, it is a biscuit baked with wasps mixed with flour. I don’t know what it tastes like, but I can’t eat it just by looking at it. If it were said that wasps soaked in wine, it wouldn't be so weird, or that wasps fried in salt and pepper might be acceptable.
Japan is a magical country with amazing food, such as sashimi cherry blossom meat (horse meat), sashimi whale , stewed tuna eyeballs, fried cod sperm sacs, natto...etc. They are all not eaten in China.
Cambodia: Fried spiders The Kingdom of Cambodia is adjacent to Vietnam . It belongs to a small country, but its food customs are very shocking. Fried spiders are one of them, and they are also a specialty. Spiders are very big, about the size of a palm. They are usually pickled first, then fried in hot oil with garlic and spiders. It looks disgusting, but is considered a delicacy by locals, who say it tastes similar to fried chicken.
France: sweetbread You may see a dish called "sweetbread" on the menu of an American French restaurant. If you take the name literally, you might think it is "sweet bread", which sounds very ordinary, right? When I brought it up and took a look, I found this: Hmm. . . Why does this "sweet bread" look like a piece of meat? I took a bite carefully to test the taste - according to Mr. Chua Lam's description of this dish, it was "like eating inferior foie gras" and the texture was "like a mixture of bone marrow and fat." ". In fact, "sweetbread" is calf's thymus. However, in French cuisine, beef thymus is a high-end raw material. It can be made into sauce and spread on bread. It can be soaked in milk and then fried in bread sauce. It can also It can be fried like steak or made into a stew. It has to be said that foreigners not only eat the offal of animals, but also develop varieties that we cannot eat.
Canned herring is very popular abroad, but the Chinese refuse to eat it. Therefore, a lot of this kind of canned herring is produced abroad every year. Of course, for us, our favorite foods are delicious. Although there are stinky and delicious foods such as stinky tofu and durian, in general, their taste is quite satisfying, but there are always some strange foods in the world that surprise us. In fact, canned herring is the most impressive.
In the eyes of the Swiss, canned herring can be said to be a rare delicacy, and it is difficult for the Chinese to accept it, but we must think from a different perspective. China has stinky tofu, and Southeast Asia has durian. It's not hard to accept swiss 's preference for canned herrings. After all, Switzerland is a country close to the sea. It's not as rich as we think. Basically all the food they can eat is fished out of the sea. Herring is one of them.This kind of canned herring is produced in Sweden and is also a traditional Swedish food. It is prepared by placing the processed herring in a tank and letting it ferment on its own. It wasn't until the herring started to smell sour that it proved successful. Because the smell of this can is 300 times that of natto, the question arises: Why do locals like to eat such smelly food? In fact, it is the same as eating stinky tofu and durian. Swedes may not tolerate you eating stinky tofu and durian. They probably thought it smelled worse than canned herring. This is mostly a matter of habit.
Everyone has their own definition of food. Some people like salty food, some people like sweet food, some people like sour food, and some people like spicy food. Different living habits form the pursuit of food. s difference.
For the same reason, what the Chinese consider delicacies are considered inedible by European beauties. So what kinds of delicacies do Chinese people like to eat that European and American people don’t? Let’s find out together. Preserved eggs, this is a delicacy that Chinese people love to eat very much. Also called preserved egg or gray-baked egg, it is a traditional Chinese egg product. It is made of quicklime, soda ash, salt, black tea, and plant ash after a period of fermentation and pickling.
Europeans and Americans dare not even look at it, let alone eat it. It is considered the most disgusting food in China. Drunken shrimp , this is a traditional dish in Shanghai and Ningbo area. Its preparation process is to put ice cubes into a glass plate, then add live shrimps, and pour rice wine into the glass plate. It is advisable to cover the shrimp, cover it, and eat it directly after it is drunk. This method can not only taste the freshness of the shrimp, but also the fragrance of the wine. Europeans and Americans never dare to eat this method. Bird's nest is regarded as a treasure by the Chinese. It is said that when a woman eats bird's nest, it can replenish qi, nourish blood, and beautify the face. It is especially good for pregnant women and postpartum women. Men who eat bird's nest can nourish their kidneys and qi and improve their immunity. But Europeans and Americans don't think so. They think bird's nests are just bird saliva and have no nutritional value.
