Trying new foods

[ANADRILL]

The wife and I are always down for dim-sum, she's Chinese Indonesian, so I get real Indonesian food, and Chinese...
Not too many good places for dim sum here though. Has anyone tried the soup dumpling place off of Federal or Hong Kong BBQ?
Both of those are good. The soup dumpling place is slow though...

[hatidua]

We went to the Asian supermarket once and bought a shark steak. It tasted like ammonia, so I'm assuming there was something wrong with it.

Nothing wrong with it per se', you simply ate urine. Nearly all shark species flush their entire system with it when caught. I have met very few serious anglers who will eat shark other than mako. Their term for shark is not something to post in polite company.

[Irving]

Saw this post and it reminded me I've never been there, despite working just a couple of miles away so I went there for lunch yesterday. Everything I had was delicious, but I barely made it back to work in time for the explosion that occurred...

Start mixing your food 90/10 with what you usually eat and increase the percentages each meal until you can handle a full plate of Jewel of India.

[Irving]

Nothing wrong with it per se', you simply ate urine. Nearly all shark species flush their entire system with it when caught. I have met very few serious anglers who will eat shark other than mako. Their term for shark is not something to post in polite company.

That sounds about right. My wife gave up after the first couple of bites. I was determined it wasn't bad and tried to power through it. Glad to know I was going out of my way to eat urine.

[hatidua]

Glad to know I was going out of my way to eat urine.

-it's not something vendors of shark meat readily divulge. When stressed, sharks really exude the stuff and nearly all sharks are caught via long-line where they might twist in the breeze for 12-18 hours on a hook before they are hauled aboard and butchered. Suffice it to say, that time they spend on the hook is akin to a land animal with it's foot caught in a trap - it's 'stressful', thus shark meat is going to typically be well laced with uric acid.

Look at the bright side: people in the UK have been eating fish & chips for a long time and seem fine. Spiny dogfish (a species of shark) is what accounts for most fish in "fish & chips".

[RCCrawler]

Start mixing your food 90/10 with what you usually eat and increase the percentages each meal until you can handle a full plate of Jewel of India.

Haha, what I usually eat.

I eat everything and anything, if I had to say what I eat the most of I'd have to say Asian. I probably eat Asian 4 times a week. Thai and Vietnamese are my favorite, then Japanese and sushi. ​

[jerrymrc]

Really, really, really good/expensive Scotch. It'd be a total waste on me because it'd be pearls before swine, but I'd like to try for myself what all the hub-bub's about. (I mostly like vodka, anyways)

Should have been with us this last weekend. Friend from GB came in and he always brings a few bottles of good single malt. I think we killed about $500 worth (US prices) in 3 days.

I've never eaten horse or cat (house cat type) and never intend to.

The Horse meat market was next to the beef market when I lived in Belgium, Not bad. Have had just about everything. Hate Possum as it it is just too greasy even after a month of clean-out. Had Roof rabbit (Rat) when I was 16 and again at at restaurant in Brussels in 82.

As I get older I find my taste for adventure eating strange things is not what it used to be.

[yz9890]

I'll try just about anything at least once. As long as it's really a meal and not some kind of reality show stunt food.

I like all kinds of seafood. If I find a seafood dish I haven't tried before on a menu, I order it.


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[Irving]

Seafood is definitely where I'm least adventurous. Actually, I have a hard time ordering new things at restaurants. Not because I am afraid to try new things, but because I'm usually not happy about paying restaurant prices in the first place, so I try to order something I'm confident I'll enjoy.

[KS63]

^^^ Get some shell-on, uncooked Black Tiger shrimp, a boat load of fresh chopped garlic and a tub of butter. Sauté garlic in butter then add the shrimp. Salt and pepper to taste. If you don't like that, I'll break your donkeys other two legs....