Basically this guy goes around SE Asia eating the nastiest looking food you can imagine. He starts out in Tokyo and eats stuff like pig penis, which he said was pretty tasty. He also went to Bangkok and Chiang Mai and ate other bizarre shit. He gnawed on the front leg of a turtle, sausage that was stuffed with assorted organs from a chicken, birds nest soup that was supposed to be expensive. I quickly saw the price tag on a box of 12 nests and it was either 10,000 or 1,000 yen. Anywhere from about 9 bucks up to 90 bucks. Yeah, the nest comes with whatever was in it...bird spit, rotted small creatures etc.
They walked around the market sampling street vendor grub. He said the chicken testicle balls were gnarly and he wouldn't suggest those to anybody. He was eating insects, including a special bat dinner with the locals. Showed them using sticks in their caves to knock them out. They would put them in a bag and return back to the village, where they would fry them up alive. Watched the chef gnawing on the soft under belly of the bat and just below his head. He said he liked it.
There was one thing this guy couldn't eat.
I think this is the bad boy. The prickly Durian. The chef is with this plantation guy and he has this machete. He splits it open and he first has the chef smell it. Even the plantation guy says the smell is really bad. The chef takes a good sized chunk and pops it in his mouth and chews about twice before his eyes bulged out. Quickly he pulls the durian fruit out of his mouth and winces and says, "Man, I can eat just about anything...but this is horrible." He says it tastes like rotten soft/mushy onions.When I was in China I thought I would try a few bizarre things, but when it came down to it, I just couldn't do it. Those grasshoppers that were fried up and on the bamboo sticks kind of looked safe, but I still didn't order them. I did have one bite of a bony section of some squid tentacles or something.
I don't know who'd have the hardiest stomach on this board but I'd put my money on any of these five guys:
mvscal...sounds like he's been in a few jungles before and has probably ate shit that you couldn't even spell. I'll bet he's had some type of stew with the head of some type of animal in it.
Dinsdale...Guy definitely is on the fringe and probably has been high/drunk enough times that he's eaten some bizarre shit.
Mister Bushice and OCMike...Bushy has been to the East and probably has experienced a few raw scorpion hearts or something. Mike served on a ship and God knows what he ate.
And lastly, David in Tulsa (dit). You know this guy has.
Can anybody here hang with the Chef in his eating skills?
Not me.
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