Weird Foods To Eat

Deep Fried Tarantula (Cambodia)
In Cambodia, fried spiders are a common and much appreciated delicacy. The spiders–“a-ping” or “Thai zebra” tarantula, a species that is about the size of a human hand, are tossed in garlic and salt before being deep fried until crisp. Most people only eat the legs and the upper body’s flesh–but the bravest also eat the abdomen, which contains a brown, runny paste and sometimes even eggs.





Escamoles
Now you be careful next time you order food in Mexico.
Those white beans might just as well be escamoles… a.k.a.: giant black Lipometum ants’ eggs.
This “insect caviar” has a consistency similar to cottage cheese and, apparently, a nice buttery taste.
On the TV series Burt Wolf’s Travels and Traditions, in the episode The Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Burt Wolf demonstrated how to eat a taco of escamoles and guacamole. The guacamole is used partly as a condiment and partly to prevent the escamoles from falling out of the taco.





Raw Blood Soup (Vietnam)
Tiet Cahn, or raw blood soup, is a traditional Vietnamese dish that contains very few ingredients:
chicken gizzards and raw duck blood,
topped with peanuts and herbs.
Tiet Cahn is refrigerated before consumption: the blood then coagulates and has the texture of jelly…





Live Cobra Heart (Vietnam)
That meal is not for the fainthearted—pun intended. Live cobra hearts cannot be considered a common meal in Vietnam—but some people do eat them, mostly because they believe that, by eating a snake live, they will inherit a part of its power and enhance their strength.
The ritual goes like this: A live cobra is picked by the customer from a selection of specimens—the meaner, the better.
Its head is then cut off and its still beating heart ripped out, placed in a saucer with a bit of the blood, ready to be chugged and swallowed whole. According to Ross Lee Tabak, who tried eating live cobra heart in Hanoi, “you might feel it beating in your throat.”





Scorpion Soup (China)
A scorpion can not only be seen pinned on a wall at a natural history museum in Montreal or in New York: It can also be seen in a soup. Traditionally eaten in southern China, scorpion soup gives the spooks just by looking at it. Apparently, scorpions have a nice, wooden taste and their venom is neutralized by the cooking process.