Foreigner can eat snail (Vietnamese style)??

ChrisFox wrote:

khanh44 wrote:

hwanghuydo wrote:

I love blood pudding and if you think you will try it, you should drink rice wine. And put a little lemon juice on blood pudding :3

ok you convinced me. Blood pudding on my bucket list.

I've eaten those blood cubes in, what is it, bún bò Huế?  I survived.  I knew they weren't tofu.  Odd thing is I will eat them and my partner won't, and he's from here.

Ahh.. the blood pudding in Bun Bo is cow blood, and it's cooked already. The blood pudding that's i told with Khanh is fresh pig's blood. Vietnamese put fish sauce in blood to stop solidity of blood. And after make core of blood pudding, they will pour blood and pure water to decrease salty then it's will be solid.

It has a kind of chalky taste and texture. To me it is edible but in no way would I ever say it is delicious.

khanh44 wrote:

hmm I might have had it than. Are they tasteless?

What I'm talking about is purple cubes in the soup, in no way a pudding.  They don't taste like much.  Far as I'm concerned it's just protein.

ChrisFox wrote:

khanh44 wrote:

hmm I might have had it than. Are they tasteless?

What I'm talking about is purple cubes in the soup, in no way a pudding.  They don't taste like much.  Far as I'm concerned it's just protein.

Vietnamese often some blood soups are cook by chicken, duck or cow blood. For example: duck blood soup with bamboo. It's reall good. They use blood in gradient coz they think eat what will make it's food your part of you. Eat leg is good for legs, eat blood will help you have a good blood

like Bulls testicle will make you good in bed. I had those btw.

khanh44 wrote:

like Bulls testicle will make you good in bed. I had those btw.

It's that kind of superstitious nonsense that is killing off rhinceros because elderly Chinese think the shape of the horn (which is made of the same stuff as fingernails, keratin) will let them get stiff like they were young.

Sự mê tín ngu.

Tigers also...very sad

A lot of westerners don't like nước mắm.  I can't imagine that.

Chris, the real irony is that Italian cooking does use anchovy sauce, and we throw anchovies on pizzas, and even the Romans had a version of what had to be nuoc mam.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/1 … ises-again

All meat look the same to me. Can't tell if it's dog, cat or rat so no problem eating them.

Khanh, give the small amount of meat on a rat, it's usually stir fried on the bone. Not hard to tell from dog, but perhaps rat could be confused with smaller cats. I don't know that I've eaten cat, but since I like the little critters I prefer not to. On the other hand, if I were starving... Here, kitty, kitty...

I'm one of those that just eat what my mom cooks. For a long while I couldn't tell the difference between pork and beef. (yes it's obvious now) If she fed me all those gross food that people perceive to me it's just normal. Like balut I didn't think much of it.

Since moving out and living on my own 3500 kms away from any of my family members I'm starting to learn what food I'm eating. But still I don't have the psychological attachment to meat. It's just meat though some taste better than others and that's where I draw the line.

khanh44 wrote:

like Bulls testicle will make you good in bed. I had those btw.

have you eaten them ???? @@
How its taste? i only eat rooter's one. Hourse's penis is also good  in bed )

At first my uncle didn't want me to eat it because it's something most people won't eat. But I will try anything at least once.

My uncle stewed the bulls testicle into some whitish porridge. Not much flavourful. Felt soft, sticky kind of. The testicles are circular, long and huge. Still edible nonetheless.

Reality: proteins are broken down to components and reassembled when used.  All biological character is lost in digestion.  That's why diabetics have to inject insulin, not eat pills.

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By rodent I mean rat not squirrels.

Anyone try to eat testiculars of rooster. Boil only simple . Many women love them ^^. and i also think its taste good.

chicken feet is the least offensive. how about rats and dog?

bongolongo wrote:

chicken feet is the least offensive. how about rats and dog?

Chicken legs enjoy with sauce is very delicous. Of course when the chicken's not too old )). Ahh.. i saw many question on some Q & A website that why Vietnamese could eat dog meat. With many peopel who live in vietnam for a long time,they clear. But i still want to explain again because the difference of our thinking.
Dog meat: At first i want to talk " We do not eat dog - our friends ". And many old Vietnamese dont think dog is a friend, they think they are also a kind of animal as chicken, pig, cow... So when they don't need them they will sell for retaurant to earn more money. Many Vietnamese love dogs and never eat or sell them to restaurant.
Rat: It's also terible food with me if i image the stupid and dirty Rat in the city. But they are not, we eat rat which is on rice field, after havest we could see many rat hold and they only eat rice and live there wildly. So let's think, rat eat rice as live in a clean area so they will be not dirty and good. And it's really good. My dad's hometown is Thai Binh where the biggest rice field in the North of Vietnam. I tasted them already, like chicken )

Sorry but to say "they think of" dogs as farm animals" isn't enough.  Aside from attitudes, a dog IS what it is, independent of whatever heartless attitude some people hold.  There is no ranching of them; most dogs eaten here are stolen pets, someone's beloved companion animals.  We gave had ten or so stolen from ONE BLOCK in three years; the thieves watch the neighborhood, know when the dogs are taken for walks, they work in pairs.  I've had two stolen, but probably to be resold as pets. 

Unlike fish or goats, dogs bind emotionally to people.  You can't just dismiss that with some explanation about attitudes.  When people are indifferent to an animal's suffering, I don't want to know them.  As for the thieves, I'm glad to know that out in the villages people will beat or even burn them to death.  The one who stole my Dalmation threatened to kill my housekeeper for trying to protect her.  I'd have that guy crippled if I could.

Hi Chris Fox. i know and understand what people who love dogs and other animal think. What you said is right and i am trying to explain why some people could eat dog meat. My English's not good enough to talk all what i am thinking but i still try. Many Vietnamese eat dog meat, i dont want foreigners thinking of Vietname's are heartless because they eat dog meat. I need the sympathy not the judgment. For example: Which food from animal you like best? assume you like chicken. And you could eat them and never think or worry about other judgment. But in another way  of thinking who love chicken. Let's image with peopel who love chicken what they think about you who eat what they love? they also think it's so terrible right? i alway agree with you, dog is not like other animal they are very intelligent and bind emotionally to people. But i want to talk to you that everything who have grown up,connect with us for a long time, they are also have some connection with us, the house we live, the bed we lie down, the chair we seat to read book. So with people who eat dog meat, they do not have this feeling with that dog, they only that's a kind of meat like another foods. That's why they could eat. Some of my Vietnamese's friends talk to me that They also nerver eat dog meat, blood pudding, duck balut.. if they think more when eat. That's the difference from who could eat dog meat and who do not.
Maybe you never know about more heartless with dogs, the people will will make them all blind and deaf for they can not see or hear about anything to eat all day, have a good weight to sell them. Like you, i also want to kill them all. I also have a friend name Misa ( bear Misa the symbol of Russia), he have 2 white spots above his eyes, we called him is 4 eyes . He lived with me for 2 years and death in a motobike accidient when i was only 5 years old. After that, my family do not have any dogs.

Dog eating is new here, so I am told, and I know a lot of people who are very angry about the practice having come down from the north.  And before that, from China.

The fact that the restaurants are supplied by thieves rarely enters the discussion.

You tell me that some people sell dogs they're tired of, well, I have no experience of that.  I do have experience with everyone on this street whose had a dog has had at least one stolen by riffraff with shock rods.

Yes people can become attached to chickens.  A chicken might even respond to affection.  But a chicken doesn't come running out to greet you when you get home, overcome with joy. 

I have parrots.  Two of them have the intelligence of four year old children.  Neighbor says let me eat it.  Neighbor is not my friend anymore.

The diffirence from our culture and thinking. Anyone have their vision and thinking. There is no right or wrong. The most important is the feeling and know eachother. Maybe you and me make the discussion too far . Great to know you!

doesn't come running out to greet you

Chris, my wife had a nephew who once said to her: "Auntie, when I come home, nobody runs out to greet me but my dog. I love my dog." I believe the term he used was: Mung Qua

lirelou wrote:

doesn't come running out to greet you

Chris, my wife had a nephew who once said to her: "Auntie, when I come home, nobody runs out to greet me but my dog. I love my dog." I believe the term he used was: Mung Qua

^^ they have many meaning: Chào bà chủ về nhà, mừng quá, vui quá ^^.

lirelou wrote:

doesn't come running out to greet you

Chris, my wife had a nephew who once said to her: "Auntie, when I come home, nobody runs out to greet me but my dog. I love my dog." I believe the term he used was: Mung Qua

I'm getting seriously disgusted with people who talk about human attitudes toward animals as if the humans are the only participants in the relationship.  People who are indifferent to the suffering of animals aren't my friends.

Just had shrimp sauce alone to see what the fuss is about. I grew up with this sauce and loved it. My mom would always tell me don't put so much. Wow it's got some kicker to eat and taste sort of pungent no wonder it's disliked by many. I still love it.

Chicken feet can be scary itself when you come from the Western world and not used to seeing black chicken feet with the skin and bones intact.

VungTauDon wrote:

khanh44 wrote:

Don't get why people are scared to eat shrimp sauce. It's not gross or anything. The taste may not be appealing to some but it's not something to lose sleep over.

I just don't like the smell and the only way I would lose sleep over it would be if it was in the room while I was trying to sleep

I like shrimp paste.  It can't be any more shocking to western palates than bleu cheese is to Asian ones (I love bleu as well and I'm not much a a cheese aficionado).