World Cuisine: Oddest foods around the globe
Everytime you travel, you need to sample everything that the country has to offer. Meet the people, see the places and taste the food. There are some places where tasting the food can be the most terrifying experience of all. If you’re looking for a rush or simply want to try something different, here are the strangest, most bizarre foods we’ve ever come across.
7. The boiled bat is a much appreciated dish in Asia. It sells for a considerable amount and it’s considered by many a delicacy. It can be found in Fiji, but also other Asian countries and those that had it said it tastes like chicken. You will never know until you have a try!
6. Even though now that uncommon as the previous dish, pork brains is not something you find at every restaurant. One
company even went out of its way to can the product in milk gravy and sell it to people that want to try something different. According to the label, one can only has 150 calories and 5 grams of fat. It also has 3,500mg of cholesterol, representing 1170% of the recommended daily allowance. Heart attack anyone?
5. When giant jellyfish invade the seas around Japan, cooks take out their cooking gear and prepare to combat the invasion. How? They will cook and eat the jellyfish. The menu will contain dishes such as jellyfish soup, jellyfish yogurt and jellyfish sashimi. These creatures consist mostly of water so steaming or grilling them would not be fit. Instead they are preserved in salt and cooked with different sauces.
4. The lutefisk is a special kind of cod served in Norway. The food is soaked in alkaline solution to such a degree that it could corrode silverware. Still, it’s deemed safe for your intestines. 
3. When it comes to weird and downright bizarre things, the Japanese are at the top of the list. This time, they have one of the oddest dishes most of us have ever come across. Eating a bull penis is thought to increase blood flow to the genitals and stamina. Most of us think twice before even touching it, but many people seem to like it since it tastes like beef.
2. Forget an omelet; try the hardboiled egg available in Cambodia. Those that tasted this odd dish said to be particularly crunchy.
1. Last but not least, you can wash all those foods down with a bottle of wine. Used as a cure in some parts of Korea, the wine is made by stuffing three day old mice into the bottle of rice wine and left about a year to combine flavors. 
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March 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
#2 is called Balut, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut . It is popular in the Philipines, Cambodia and Vietnam. I always see it make this sort of list, but never with such a weak description.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
What about this?
http://www.bragikokkur.is/myndir/svid.jpg
March 12th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Jammin to some old school metallica and being drunk but that is besides the point. this is disgusting. rat fetuses???? ahhhhh. i’ve seen this before but god damned!!! ahhh the horror
March 12th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
There are quite a few odder dishes than the ones you’ve mentioned. There’s nothing particularly weird about organ meat or meat from animals that aren’t generally eaten in the west… for true weirdness, try sannachi - still-squirming freshly-killed octopus, popular in Korea, especially when people drink.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvyunwtlvuc
March 12th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
OMG the one with the mice is discusting
March 12th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
the no.2 isnt from combodia, its from Philippines, and its called “Balut”
March 12th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
yuck! thats the first thing that came to mind after reading those discriptions. Can’t say its not fascinating though. Would never try any of those but the information has sharing value…could gross anyone out, especially the wine.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Try Mopane worms, a 3-4 inch grub, harvested from the Mopane tree in Northern Botswana. or pig’s knuckles pickled in vinegar, eaten hole. And by the way, Lutefisk is very tastie.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
i can understand experimenting with food, creating different flavours but the wine??? it would be interesting to know a little bit more about the origins, like how long the mice wine has been used and for what its used to cure… maybe bad breathe !
March 13th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
If they are hungry enough to eat stuff like this I wonder what they will do for a bqrrel of oil?
March 15th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
people eat possum and road kill here in the States but that represents like 1%… same with probably most of the food.
March 15th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I always thought Silk Worm Puppas consumed in Korea and Japan as “snacks” were one of the craziest things you could eat.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:02 am
I think it a matter of not thinking where the meat comes from. For example, we don’t ponder about our corndog while we eat it.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:01 am
lutefisk (literally translated: lye fish) is preserved in lye in order to be kept long enough for transport. the lye is then rinsed out over 7 days and then the fish is boiled. it’s really not that bad.
July 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
what’s about fried grasshopper in Thailand? I never try it myself but some ppl say that it’s actually quite tasty.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Lutefisk is a traditional Christmas-time dish in Finland and possibly Sweden, too. Can’t say I like it much, the consistency is gelatinous/glutinous, and the only flavour really comes from the copious amount of ground allspice dusted on top of the bechamel-style sauce traditionally served with the fish.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:55 am
man, i was about to have my breakfast, eeew, ugh … *pukes*
do ppl really eat all that stuff? …. i’ve had the ‘goat brain’ recipe thou, its common in Pakistan.