Thread: Bali "Funny" Food

Ok, what do "they" eat which you could consider "different"?

We had until now on the forum:

Pig blood with cokos, Bats, Sparrow, Dog... (and some meatbal rat soup :) )

I only heard of lizards (Alu) who could be eaten...

Frogs?

They eat snails, I think you can find them in the rice fields, and you can buy them "goreng" in plastic bags, like krupuk.

Little shell things from the beach... Dragonflies..... ??

Ants with Nasih Putih

I know Guinea Pig is eaten in Peru, I never heard of Gerbils being eaten there though.

I have also eaten frogs legs in France.

Horse in Greece.

Friends in England think it is exotic to eat water buffallo but we eat it often in Lombok - not sure if local beef in Bali is cow or buffallo.

Bat is probably the strangest food I have eaten in Indonesia though.

[quote="Bert"]Ok, what do "they" eat which you could consider "different"?

In Australia one can buy kangaroo and crocodile meat. I have tried kangaroo meat once, didn't like it so much. But never tried crocodile meat.

As a child in Bali, I have eaten frog legs, snails, eels, dragonflies and some other things I don't know the English words for. My grandmother made pesan 'a parcel wrapped in banana leaves and roasted in charchoal'. The 'meat' from them are mixed with the residual/thickened coconut paste left after the process of making coconut oil. One can still buy the paste in traditional market - I think.

There is a saying in Bali 'Cara nglawar capunge, lebian gae' meaning it is like making the Balinese Lawar with dragonlies, too much work for little result.

I think in the old days people also ate dedalu (white ants that had transfromed into flyng ants - not sure what the English or Indonesian terms for this). Apparently they tasted yummpy roasted. :?:

Just realised that all the strange things listed are animals. What about strange berries and plants? I am sure there are many that regular people won't touch. Durian is one that many Westerners wouldn't eat.

For me, Stinking Cheesefruit or Noni Fruit or in Bali called Tibah (Morinda longifolia). I have read and been told they are healthy, but .....

Hmm I forgot about Kangaroo - I have eaten that too but in UK.

Made also takes the honeycomb from the nests in our roof and cooks it with bees and all in in it (those that havent left) boils it in banana leaf. I havent tried it, it looks quite disgusting, a couple of our guests have tried it though.