Wednesday, 21 February 2007

Exotic

have you ever tried dried mushroom? My man bought some last week in the chinese store out of curiousity (he keeps bringing home some funny-looking, never-heard-of-it stuff from the stores, we will poison ourselves one fine day).
Just soak it in warm water for an hour: better than new, and it never gets spoiled. Do you have chinese food there? What is the fastfood there, the belgian relevant of chinese buffee?
Like japanese here: sushi and maki and teriyaki wherever you look, there is sushi plate even in the hospital's cafeteria!
BTW, what about exotic food? What do you think, are we supposed to eat what our ancestors had? Do we put extra stress on the body enjoying a good thai dinner? Or is it just preconditioning, like sauna, that makes you stronger? I vote for that!
And what is exotic, anyways? My student asked me what is the most exotic food I ate. I don't know. Some chinese dish would be exotic in Hungary. But she has chinese origin, so I can't say that. Some is exotic here (blood sausage, heyho), but common back at home. Other europian? I'm not sure. So I named the most stinky cheeses I had (Mont d'Or, if you have the opportunity), and some locally brewed beer...
What is the most exotic food you ate?

3 comments:

lynx said...

I make dried mushroom myself...and I still have some from those what we prepared in France during last summer :-)
Chinese buffee would be chinese buffee here as well - but Japanese is more popular, just like on your side of the world!
It's difficult to surprise belgians with our stuff, though: they also make "boudin noir" (blood sausage) and have nothing against eating a bird's stomac ("gésier").
I don't really care about what my ancestor's ate (I would probably end up dying from fat-overload if I'd try to follow them...As for my exotic experience, I'll write a post some day, entitled "Pigeon" that will come with the label "trauma".

nanaimo said...

I ate jellyfish

lynx said...

MY GOD