Thursday, August 13, 2009

Craziest Food I have ever tasted

  1. Tongba, Bamboo Beer....Hot Stimulating Cafe, Darjeeling. This is a rocking drink. Made of fermented millet and rye based in a round Bamboo Container and drunk with a Bamboo Straw with a netting at the end. The base of fermented millet and rye is topped with hot water and allowed to settle for a few minutes. You sip and sip and then top up again and again till the alchohol in base lasts. Never ending and superb. Best had with the house speciality which are freshly made Momos (all vegeterian in this joint)
  2. Grilled Alligator Meat with Garlic Toast and Red Wine at Brassilia - the restaurant at Lagoons in Lagos. With baby tomatoes and herbs, this is a strange, if not a very appetizing food.
  3. Tomato rice stuffed into scooped out Cucumber @ a friends place. Tasted terrible ....try if you like that kind of thing...specially when the cucumber is boiled
  4. Bhindi stuffed with Keema at a parsee friends house...made the same way that you would make bharva Baingan or stuffed bhindi (with besan).... Crazy ...the Parsees need meat in everything
  5. Jadoh....in the North East of India...I believe its origin is Shillong...but its recipe is like pork Biriyani but the Rice is cooked in Pork Blood ...or so I believe. Loved it before I found what it was boiled in
  6. Chhola Burger at Bhopal...This is crazy...It is Chhole ...pounded and made into neat cakes and placed as patties between buns... I can think of better things...Didnt taste half bad though.
  7. Bheja Fry @ Bhatyar Gali ...was horrible....picking goats brain....yucks
  8. Tea, creamed with Camel Milk...again a strict no no.... a few years back at Sarita Udyan in Gandhinagar...realised something was wrong the moment I sipped the tea...only to be told that normal milk was not available and so the Camel variety....
  9. Crispy Sweet Chicken @ Tangra, Kolkata...Just in case you did not get enough protien during the meal itself, here is what you do...dip chicken strips in bits of sweet marination (honey in it I believe and til) and fry it till crisp.... Sweet very sweet...And kind of ok to taste
  10. Alloo Tikki Burgers at Macdonalds....Hello what was that? Alloo Tikki ...ok ... but Alloo Tikki Burgers at Macs? Absolute no no...

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