Today, I was trying to write a different post (about Kuala Lumpur with kids) and while looking for photos I came across some of my favorite “Weird Food In Asia” pictures. So, rather than a random post about Malaysia, I thought I would share some of these pictures. I don’t know about your kids, but mine eat all over the culinary map, one day it is only Chicken Rice, another it may be only Kraft Mac and Cheese. Here is an ode to some of the funky foods around the region. The picture above is our 1 year old holding ‘Squid on a Stick’, in Taipei (Danshui) Taiwan.
Fresh Water Snails, Miri, Sarawak, Borneo Malaysia
Tarantula Spider, Shanghai China (Thanks for being a super model Tiffany)
Random Bird/Chicken/or UFA (Unidentified Flying Animal)
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
Grilled Fish, Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo Malaysia
And, my favorite of the week, live wood grubs, from the jungles in Borneo,
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Wow! Is it me, or are those wood grubs gigantic?
Yes the are HUGE!
No!!!!!
Why did you start your post with a picture of Ikayaki (aka “Squid on a stick” aka I don’t know what they’re called in Taiwan), now I really want one, and I know that won’t happen before several months.
How do you eat the water snails? I mean, I’ve eaten many different kind of snails before (after all, I’m French
) but those seem pretty small to be able to get them inside their shells…
Finally, the grubs. I always wanted to try them, but I don’t know how I’d feel about them if they were right in front of me and that it was finally time to stick them in my mouth. I guess there’s only one way to know.
David,
You use a toothpick and kind of pull it out, or you can just slurp/suck them out. Frankly, I don’t care for “big” snails, but these aren’t too bad!
Wow!! You will not find me putting a tarantula in my mouth. Sorry, won’t happen. I don’t think I can do guinea pig either in Peru or Ecuador, but looks like Asia is all about the bugs. Yikes!
Lainie, I think mass quantities of alcohol helped in that evening full of bugs!
Those are some giant giant grubs. Yuck! I love the weird and wonderful foods of Asia. Fishing towns are the best – have some great photos of hundreds of squids drying in a row in Korea. Will Part 2 have shots from Cambodia? Crickets and cockroaches have to be up there on the list of weird foods.
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Love the baby and squid on a stick! Priceless picture!
Thanks Nicole!
@Tracy we will have to send the boys out on a bug eating contest and have the kids video it when you get back!
Yummy. My favorite is balut that I had in Vietnam. Tastes like chicken!
Jeremy, really? I have a problem with feathers… but good on you!
Thanks for this. We enjoyed crickets. I will, to be honest, eat most things, provided it’s not unusually cruel.
Nice post…the pic of the squid on a stick is making me anxious to get home to Taiwan. We’ve been traveling for the past 6 weeks and I miss the food in TW. The other pictures…hmmm, not so much! LOL I’m pretty adventurous, but live grubs and tarantulas are out of my league!
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