7. Maggoty cheese
Most of us would send our cheese straight back, if it were served with maggots inside, but in Sardinia, customers would be upset if the waiter brought cheese that wasn’t alive with maggots. There is a Sardinian cheese called caso marzum, which is made from fermented sheep’s milk, and it is served, and eaten, with live maggots wriggling around inside.
8. Bulls testicles
The eating of Bull testicles is actually quite common in cattle ranching country and, if you fancy giving it go, you can eat Rocky Mountain Oysters, as they are called, in parts of Canada. The bull’s ‘bits’ are usually fired, or sautéed, and served with sauces and dips. They even have an annual testicle festival in Calgary.
9. Fried spider
Fried spider is another one of very bizarre foods popular in Cambodia; be careful what you are buying from street vendors there, because one of their specialities is a deep fried tarantula. The spiders are fried in garlic oil, so that the outsides are nice and crunchy, but the insides are still soft a gooey. They are said to be very nutritious. Fried insects, of all kinds, are a common snack in many Asian countries.
10. Birds nest soup
The Chinese birds nest soup is so highly valued that a bowl of the stuff in a restaurant in Hong Kong could set you back as much as a $100. What gives the soup its unique flavour, and its high nutritional content, is the bird’s saliva that is found in the nest. Birds nest soup has now become so popular that the nests are now being mass produced in China.
