The weirdest most disgusting thing you have eaten in a restaurant.

[beeboo]

ah.. now I really like konnyaku! It's a really good substitute for pasta too if you want a carb/calorie free "pasta" meal.

You can tell it is wrong, because food should have calories

no calories = not food.

 

[gaijingirl]

You can tell it is wrong, because food should have calories

no calories = not food.

you could have a point!

It's definitely worth trying though.... I do really like it.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

In terms of just something gross in terms of how it was made, I would have to say the pizza one week at my halls of residence, which they put fucking shitty stilton on instead of normal cheese.

in terms of something that sounds gross but was surprisingly nice, cicadas.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Natto! Being veggie I get away with most disgusting things.. but natto is in a league of its own.. truely truely foul.. basically rotten soy beans.. and the stench...

I wonder if that is as smelly as what the Chinese call chou dofu, or stinking tofu?

Some friends of mine here, who had previously spent some time in Brazil, regularly smelt the stinking tofu in the street, and said it smelt just like the favelas in brazil...

 

[Tricky Mickey]

Sheep head soup, pissed at 7am in Istanbul after a night on the raki. Grisly as fuck. Stops a hangover in its tracks, though...

 

[han]

A fish curry in a restaurant called Sri Krishna (I think)! In Tooting. On an U75 curry night!

It was basically a spinal column, with bones, in curry sauce.

And very fishy-smelling. But with virtually no fish on.

I think they'd emptied the bin onto my plate and then put curry sauce on it!

 

[han]

God, just thought of another one.

When I spent a month in Japan with my mum many years ago, we were staying with her Japanese friends the whole time, and eating loads of REAL Japanese food. Which was ace. But after a month I was really craving something western.

We went out for a posh meal with some of her Japanese friends to an American restaurant, and I saw 'steak tartare' on the menu. I thought - 'fab! A great big steak with chips and tartare sauce!'.

But no. It was a big pile of raw, minced beef on a plate, with just a sprig of parsely on the top. A delicacy, apparently.

I had to eat the whole lot, they were paying, so I just swallowed mouthfuls whole with a big glug of water.

Not pleasant.

 

[la ressistance]

My three most hated things:
Egg
Mushrooms
Lamb



.

you're weird.

 

[The Groke]

your weird.

His weird what?

 

[baldrick]

But no. It was a big pile of raw, minced beef on a plate, with just a sprig of parsely on the top. A delicacy, apparently.

lol. lucky you didn't get the raw egg yolk on the top too

why people actually eat things like this is beyond me (c.f. oysters, caviar etc)

 

[Lea]

Smelly tofu a delicacy sold on the streets of HK. You can smell it a mile off and it tastes as disgusting as it smells.

 

[kakuma]

once in korea we sat down at the table and they brought out a bunch of stuff that was still moving. never seen that anywhere else in korea

have eaten sea slugs and shit tho

 

[Edie]

Gracious, I live the most dull life ever. I haven't ever eaten something really ususually disgusting.

However... as a treat for giving up smoking me and other half keep meaning to go to this restaurant in Leeds called Antonys. It's really, really posh and he's meant to have this thing about unusual food combinations that somehow 'work'. I walked past the other day and saw on the menu cocks crest. Kinda put me off really...

 

[*Miss*Sparkle*]

I had a thai veg curry on a bed of crispy noodles at a (normally) very nice restaurant. I think they had forgotten to put the noodles in the fryer before serving me and I essentially had thai veg on a block of uncooked supernoodles. Most unsavoury.

Quite recently in South Africa, the lady who owned the guest house where we were staying recommended a restaurant to us as it was great and had loads of vegetarian options. The restaurant had *one* veggie option, which was all my least favourite foods piled onto a plate. It was a salad with oranges and tomatoes in it (can't stand either), cheese all over it (which I was avoiding as wasn't sure if it had rennet in it), all the lettuce was covered in little bits of tomato and cheese so I couldn't eat that, but I managed to pick out two dates from the salad and eat them. And that was all I ate. I was so sad and so hungry that I went to the toilet and cried while my chap was finishing his main course

 

[bendeus]

I had venison tenders at a chinese restaurant. It had the texture of gristle, the taste of slimy soy sauce. I have no idea what part of the animal it was.

Weird. I was about to post exactly the same thing - venison tendons in a rich, sweet soy sauce eaten in a Chinese restaurant in Beijing. Long, thin pallid strips of gristly, slimy meat.

Pure ming

 

[zog]

We went out for a posh meal with some of her Japanese friends to an American restaurant, and I saw 'steak tartare' on the menu. I thought - 'fab! A great big steak with chips and tartare sauce!'.

But no. It was a big pile of raw, minced beef on a plate, with just a sprig of parsely on the top. A delicacy, apparently.

I ordered that in Paris once asuming the same thing. I got to say I quite liked it though.

 

[bendeus]

Decent steak tartare is pretty nice. Steak has to be of premium quality, though.

 

[killer b]

raw beef is lush. the stew i made the other night didn't have as much meat in it as it should, 'cause i kept eating bits before it went in the pan...

<checks poo for tapeworm>

 

[pixie-iso]

I had something in a scary restaurant in Chinatown, it was a blanket of rice noddle with pork knuckles inside. Yak!
And natto is sooo rank, eugh I tried it and eek it was horrid!

Having said that, when my dad first started cooking he cooked those fine noodles you get in soups to a mush and mixed it with ketchup till it was pink. Ha! we still laugh about it now.

 

[Xanadu]

Aye, Okra's horrid. Way too slimey - it kind of coats your mouth with yuckiness.

Only if it's cooked badly.

 

[Xanadu]

lol. lucky you didn't get the raw egg yolk on the top too

why people actually eat things like this is beyond me (c.f. oysters, caviar etc)

oysters are lovely though!

 

[Greta]

Weird. I was about to post exactly the same thing - venison tendons in a rich, sweet soy sauce eaten in a Chinese restaurant in Beijing. Long, thin pallid strips of gristly, slimy meat.

Pure ming

Oh, that is odd They were actually enough to put me off eating for some time. It was the texture and appearance. Are they considered a delicacy? I had mine at a wedding with about 20 courses.