Every country in the world has a different food dish. Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia offer their own unique food. Call it Asia, the continent we live in now has a food dish rich in spices and herbs.
Indonesia for example, known as rendang, fried rice and meatballs. Thailand, known for its tom yam and pad thai. In general, those in Asia are difficult to adapt to Western food, and vice versa.
Apparently, each region in the world does not only serve the typical food alone. There is dish that is considered disgusting and then so loved by the local community. For example, durian is considered delicious in Southeast Asia, shunned Westerners.
Disgusting not only from processed materials, but also starting from extreme processing.
1. Casu Marzu Cheese
Who does not know cheese. Dairy processed from milk is very popular by many people. Of the many types of cheese, have you heard the word Casu Marzu.
For some people, there is a special pleasure when eating Casu Marzu cheese. However, beneath the delights of this cheese is processed in a very disgusting way.
In general, ready-to-eat cheese will be used as a cake-making material and other foods. However, Casu Marzu will be left first to rot and berbelatung.
Due to health risks, the EU prohibits the circulation of the cheese. But in fact, this type of cheese can still be found on the dark market of the Blue Continent.
2. Moldy Corn
Mexico is known for its delicious food. Starting from carne asada to tacos. However, there are foods that are considered to have its own delicacy for its citizens of corn.
It's not hard to find corn. However, corn in Mexico is different. Local people usually harvest corn until it is overcooked and grows mushrooms.
The moldy corn is known as huitlachoche. Together with the mushrooms attached, this corn will be processed into porridge.
Habits like this have been done by native tribes of Mexico for thousands of years ago. Mexican society says, the taste of mushroom corn is so tasty because it has a different texture.
When heated, the fungus in the corn will change the color of the porridge to grayish.
3. Kiviak
If you have the opportunity to vacation in Greenland, and dare to taste exotic food, you may have to try a typical dish from the region that is kiviak.
Kiviak is a traditional food from Greenland, especially the Inuit, a fermented auk bird in the belly of seals.
About 500 birds auk put in the skin of seals and then sewn and smeared with fat. A hole is dug then seals inserted into a hole which is then closed and vacuum.
After seven months, then the fermented bird is removed from the belly of a seal. Fat seals are believed to help the process of fermentation, also soften the meat and bones of auk birds.
One way to eat this food is by biting the auk head and sucking the liquid in it. Kiviak flavor is often described as similar to mature cheese.
4. Shirako
Japan is known as a country with all the oddities. Not just the way her young man dresses so eccentric, but also his food.
Besides known with the pleasures of sushi, in Japan there is also an interesting food that you should try when visiting the State Sakura.
Shirako is an extreme food that is processed from animal body parts that sound strange and unfit for consumption. If seen carefully, Shirako is similar to a cow's intestine. However, the raw material for making Shirako comes from the genital and fish sperm sac.
This food is often consumed by the local community because it is considered to have properties for the body.
5. Swallow Nest Nest
Of the many disgusting foods that have been described previously, swallow nest soup is a dish that is familiar in the ears of the people of Indonesia.
The ingredients of this soup derived swallow's nest. Swallow nest itself is formed by swallows of saliva. Although it sounds disgusting because it consumes salur swallow, many people who already recognize the delicacy of this food.
Many believe that by eating this soup can treat various diseases one lung.
This soup is also targeted by women for the affairs of beauty. It is said, by eating soup nest swallow can refine the skin.
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