Trotters

[JamsCowbell]

She was talking about the actual feet...

Bleurgh! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... n_feet.jpg

I think I'll stick to the nice bits

[YetiDave]

I had fish heads, balut, pig blood stew, chicken intestines and sea urchin (it was still moving whilst I ate it) earlier in the year. Trotters and chicken feet ain't no thang

[aris]

I had fish heads, balut, pig blood stew, chicken intestines and sea urchin (it was still moving whilst I ate it) earlier in the year. Trotters and chicken feet ain't no thang

Fish Head stew - check (popular with Nigerians)
Pig Blood - yeah, it's called black pudding
Chicken intestines - no, but I'd give it a go given the oportunity
Sea Urchin - most definitely - it is awesome and a delicacy in Crete (and most of Greece now). Very popular in Japan on sushi - called 'Uni'

Have you had Nigerian Isi Ewu? It is a spicy Nigerian stew made form goats head. Basically the whole head is chopped into 4's, and boiled down with spices and tomato. The brain liquefies and becomes part of the sauce, and you eat the rest - skin, tongue, ears, eyes etc.. Quite nice!

[aris]

By the way - they had Durian at Wing Yip - very expensive though. 10 pounds per KG - and the actual edible part of the fruit is a fraction of that. I'd still give it a go though.

[YetiDave]

I had fish heads, balut, pig blood stew, chicken intestines and sea urchin (it was still moving whilst I ate it) earlier in the year. Trotters and chicken feet ain't no thang

Fish Head stew - check (popular with Nigerians)
Pig Blood - yeah, it's called black pudding
Chicken intestines - no, but I'd give it a go given the oportunity
Sea Urchin - most definitely - it is awesome and a delicacy in Crete (and most of Greece now). Very popular in Japan on sushi - called 'Uni'

Have you had Nigerian Isi Ewu? It is a spicy Nigerian stew made form goats head. Basically the whole head is chopped into 4's, and boiled down with spices and tomato. The brain liquefies and becomes part of the sauce, and you eat the rest - skin, tongue, ears, eyes etc.. Quite nice!

This pig blood stew was basically chopped up organs cooked in blood with vinegar and spices (called dinuguan) lovely stuff, but very rich. Can't say I've tried isi ewu, but the idea of it doesn't put me off! The only thing I didn't particularly enjoy on that list was the balut. The taste isn't so bad, but the texture..

Durian's actually lovely, but the smell is a bit offensive. If you get one make sure it's ripe, the young ones don't smell so bad

[aris]

The only thing I didn't particularly enjoy on that list was the balut. The taste isn't so bad, but the texture.. :

Were there feathers in the egg?

[YetiDave]

The only thing I didn't particularly enjoy on that list was the balut. The taste isn't so bad, but the texture.. :

Were there feathers in the egg?

A few, and a beak.. The guy who I had the bet with had the worse egg. Needless to say I earned that drink! His balut ended up in a bush next to the bar We were advised not to go for anything above 14 or so days old, these were 18. I bought another the following night when I was a bit tipsy and fully intended on eating it, but in the end I just couldn't stand the thought of it. I gave it to a stray cat, and even the cat didn't want it. 'Nuff said really

[Strongarm]

I had fish heads, balut, pig blood stew, chicken intestines and sea urchin (it was still moving whilst I ate it) earlier in the year. Trotters and chicken feet ain't no thang

Fish Head stew - check (popular with Nigerians)
Pig Blood - yeah, it's called black pudding
Chicken intestines - no, but I'd give it a go given the oportunity
Sea Urchin - most definitely - it is awesome and a delicacy in Crete (and most of Greece now). Very popular in Japan on sushi - called 'Uni'

Have you had Nigerian Isi Ewu? It is a spicy Nigerian stew made form goats head. Basically the whole head is chopped into 4's, and boiled down with spices and tomato. The brain liquefies and becomes part of the sauce, and you eat the rest - skin, tongue, ears, eyes etc.. Quite nice!

This pig blood stew was basically chopped up organs cooked in blood with vinegar and spices (called dinuguan) lovely stuff, but very rich. Can't say I've tried isi ewu, but the idea of it doesn't put me off! The only thing I didn't particularly enjoy on that list was the balut. The taste isn't so bad, but the texture..

Durian's actually lovely, but the smell is a bit offensive. If you get one make sure it's ripe, the young ones don't smell so bad

Durian is amazing. My mother in law is from Malaysia and we visited that part of the family during durian season a few years back. The stuff we had then out of this world, so much nicer than the stuff airlifted over here.

I love pig trotter but cant imagine it being great on the smoker, you want it braised for ages so the skin and the tendons (they don't really have any meat) turn to jelly and my experience of pig skin on the smoker isnt that. The idea of having them as something you then diced and added to stews for flavour could work well though, as pork rind always a good addition to a stew for it's gelatinous properties, and a bit of smoke isnt going to hurt.

Cow foot also good, Jamaican style stewed with butterbeans and some scotch bonnet.

Sea urchin lovely

Chicken feet too much effort

Balut is a lot better than it sounds but even thoguh I'ev had them and enjoyed them the thought still turns my stomach, and I think it's a bit harsh on the ducks.

[somapop]

The only thing I didn't particularly enjoy on that list was the balut. The taste isn't so bad, but the texture.. :

Were there feathers in the egg?

A few, and a beak.. The guy who I had the bet with had the worse egg. Needless to say I earned that drink! His balut ended up in a bush next to the bar We were advised not to go for anything above 14 or so days old, these were 18. I bought another the following night when I was a bit tipsy and fully intended on eating it, but in the end I just couldn't stand the thought of it. I gave it to a stray cat, and even the cat didn't want it. 'Nuff said really

Presume this wasn't procured in south Manchester?!
In saying that, there's some pretty authentic Chinese (Szechuan) restaurants in Manchester's Chinatown.

I clearly haven't lived folks...must book a family trip to some far flung Asian destination and start eating a little 'off piste'.

[YetiDave]

Nah it was in the Philippines although Woo Sang supermarket in Chinatown does have them in occasionally. Red 'n' Hot is a lovely if you fancy some Szechuanese food! I'm a total Szechuan pepper addict