Most Bizarre Foods in the World

                                                             

  • It’s time to take a trip around the world and delve into all the weird foods our species like to chow down.
  •  Unfortunately, the world isn’t only full of those tasty breakfasts we spoilt you with a while back – if only. 
  • Consider this a public service and an education to save you from shock when you come across these, the 
  • weirdest foods from around the world.

                       Tuna Eyeballs – Japan

                                 

The eyeballs themselves are rather bland—most tasters liken them to squid, mussels, or 

 hard-boiled egg. Today, tuna eyeballs can usually be found in Japan's izakayas, casual, 

after-work pubs that dispense hors d'oeuvres and drinks. The cooked eyeballs are served one

or two at a time, alongside other dishes.

                            Hakarl – Iceland


The rotting carcass of a Greenland or basking (Somniosidae) shark. It’s buried underground 

in a shallow pit and pressed with stones so the poisonous internal fluids that allow it to live in 

such cold waters can be drained out making the meat safe to eat. After this it’s hung out to dry 
before being cut into strips and served. With a smell that’s described as ammonia-rich and a 

strong ‘fishy-flavour’, it was described by Anthony Bourdain as “the single worst, most 

disgusting and terrible tasting thing” he’d tried.

Century Egg / 100 Year Old Egg / 1000 Year Old Egg – China


Yeah, OK, it’s neither a century nor a millennium old, but this egg is pretty rotten.

 After being preserved in a mixture of clay, ash and quicklime for a few months, the 

yolk turns a dark green or even black and slimy while the white has turns to a dark 

brown translucent jelly. Apparently it smells of strongly of sulphur and ammonia, 

but tastes like a hardboiled egg… until you breathe out that is.

  Jing Leed (Grasshoppers) – Thailand



Jing Leed. One of the most common insects for snacking, it's a cricket.If you don't

 find street vendors selling fried insects, for sure you can always find them at Temple Fairs 

throughout Thailand. Temple Fairs help raise money for the temple, and

 sometimes last a whole week whereby all kinds of food & clothing is 

sold, along with traditional entertainment. 

Frog shashimi




Recently a viral video on the web give popularity to the Frog sashimi

 practice, which means to eat the frog on the plate cut in a half while 

the animal is basically still dying and still alive. In the video, a large 

frog is stabbed, skinned, gutted and served up on an iced plate with a 

lemon slice and soy sauce.






































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