Why are there no restaurants around here that serve extremely exotic foods?
Yeah yeah, I know most people like pizza, wings, fries, your typical food in North America. But some people, such as myself, want something different. I’ve heard about people in Cambodia and such places that eat tarantulas. I’m very adventurous and I’ve had pizza with spiders as one of the toppings and it wasn’t bad tasting at all. I am disappointed that I can’t find any place that have such dishes. —Craving arachnids
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2010.
Mainly because you are one of the RARE ones who like crap like spiders. Thanks. You just destroyed my appetite.
But yep, they’re gonna open a restaurant here where NO one will eat.
i have some big basement spiders, don’t know how they would taste…they eat small insects that get in my house and well i have grown fond of them so you can’t have these ones. good luck looney
We just got Thai food (and there seems to be a plethora of restaurants now). You want “exotic” food? Go to LA where they’re pretentious enough to popularize food people eat when there’s no other choice.
I’m sure there’s lots of pizza shops in the city where you can get bugs in your food. Usually not intentionally though.
Kingston Ontario, I swear, has more Vietnamese/Cambodian restaurants than pizza joints in it’s downtown core. And most of them are kickass excellent.
This is sooooooooo revolting and I couldn’t finish watching it once the diners’ mallets were raised. But, OP, I think you might fall into this category of diner:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbe1ea_ea…
Adventurous eh… wait till a pizza joint opens up in the “towers” and you can get bedbugs and cockroaches as additional toppings without even asking 🙂 Of course you could walk up to Gottingen and buy from Kill Kat Pizza, probably just as healthy.
That’s pretty much how HIV/AIDS got started, Kim. Except it was Gorilla. Actually, eating strange food is a good way to get worms, along with any number of diseases. But hey, to each their own.
omg that video is so revolting
no thanks i have seen enough of that, i’ll stick with my chickpeas
why don’t you open one; spend a couple of 100 grand work like 100 hours a week than go out of business in less than 2 yrs like most restaurants; sounds good eh 🙂
Restos are like bookstores. It’s very easy to make a small fortune owning and operating one. You just need to start out with a large fortune
if you want an exotic meal, go to a korean joint, there you can fill up on dog or cat . or maybe even a crap burger of some kind.
Step 1 – Go to pet store; buy arachnids and other jumpy, crawly things.
Step 2 – Purchase a slice from your pizza shop of choice.
Step 3 – Place pet store purchase on pizza shop purchase.
Voila, exotic! Enjoy.
why don’t you go to Cambodia, so that more shit doesn’t have to be shipped across the world for your stupid appetite?
I don’t think they eat cats in Korea, LS. Just dogs, and not everyone eats them. And I believe it is a specific kind of dog, and possibly bred specifically for consumption, much like cattle. (But I can’t be sure, I have never looked into the details.) One of my acquaintances told me it tasted like yam fries. (And we were eating yam fries.)
Very few restaurants in HRM serve truly authentic food. Most of it is westernized to our taste buds.
Sign the letter that some students at Dal are distributing to keep this Pakistani family in Halifax. They moved here 7 years ago when both the man and woman refused to marry who they were arranged to marry and instead married each other. Fearing death they moved to Halifax where they have had 2 children, learned English, went to school, etc. They want to open a Halal Pakistani restaurant. Do your part to keep them here and you could be eating their food soon!
they enjoy golden/yellow haired dogs the most nth…sigh
sebastian you have restaurants you recommend? I have been to some of “Best in Halifax” type restaurants and was disappointed by most of them.
actually n t h, if they are the poorer people, which most are over there, they will eat just about everything , that walks, jumps, skips, slithers or flies, and let’s not forget the crawly things either. a friend was there in 53, and he told me some of the most disgusting things about those folk i ever heard. and at times, some even practice cannabelism.
aaah long pig, anything is good when you’re starving
NOW SEATING, DONNER, PARTY OF 12
It’s important to note that no population actually practices cannibalism through want.
Incidents from Stalin’s famine in Ukraine in the 30’s, the 900 day seige of Leningrad, and certain rural areas of China during the Cultural Revolution have been documented; but those were extreme circumstances and they did not occur on a terribly widespread basis. Certain South American airlines no longer serve Virgina Ham or Jack Daniels on trans-Andean flights; It’s considered to be in bad taste. Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk.
oooh…i’m not eating im his legs all gammy.rawk
Again, that was a need, not a want. It’s one of the few taboos that exist from culture to culture.
The hilarious thing about this, North Americans and Europeans are doing this.
Show the level of ignorance and education available!
If you actually listen to the commentator of the video posted, he says throughout history it was believe that if people eat a part of a desired animal, they can inherit it’s something or another. That’s just ignorance to an comprehensible level!
it’s like tiger penis soup or bile from a black bear’s gallbladder all in the hopes of having a biggus dickus. cruel fools…the worst kind
It’s easy to say what’s gross to eat when you have a full stomach, when you’re starving and your body starts eating itself, spiders will tatse like chicken.
You could always dumpster dive wearing a blindfold?
What is it that they eat in Alberta…Rocky Mountain Oysters? Here, I even found a recipe:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Roc…
home of the stampede…good family entertainment. not
the overall quality of restaurants in Halifax is poor; and enough with the effing haddock already 🙂
I don’t mind the restaurants we have here; sure they’re not exactly inventive (considering that every resto has some form of fish n’ chips on the menu) but at least most give you decent value.
The only thing that I wish would go away is the spicy food fad that seems to be pervading every corner of the city. While it was okay at first, I’m either drowning in chipotle (even in restaurants that shouldn’t have it) or drowning in some feckin’ Thai sauce.
I like haddock. You don’t find them on west coast supermarkets (I don’t think). I am still in search of a good Chinese restaurant, so if any of you know of a good one, please let me know!
Great Wall used to be my favourite until I had them when I was sober… kinda ruined it for me. Though I do love it… late at night after hanging with friends and drinking a little more than necessary. 🙂 I guess all the Coast readers are usually drunk, that’s why they keep wining best Chinese. Huh. No surprise there…
Sober quality Chinese food suggestions would be welcome for me too!
No such thing, as far as I know. Who else can rationalize $8 for sweet and sour chicken? Only a drunk!
Although I will admit that Jean’s on SGR is okay, and the Great Wall’s Dim Sum is amazing. The May Garden on Portland in Dartmouth, while not exemplary, is at the very least consistent in it’s decency, and they don’t use MSG (or less of it).
So that’s what I did wrong, not being drunk. I have been to 3 other Chinese restaurants, and I liked some items on the menu, but I haven’t found one that is great food overall.
but hey, look at ralmn with his kitty cat and wine. please nth don’t rely on us for dining advice…stick to the trenches or cook at home like some of us
I wish I was good at cooking, but I find it absurd that I spend 30 minutes preparing something and then it only takes 15 minutes to eat it. Then another 10 minutes wasted washing and putting away dishes. But then, I can’t afford to eat out all the time. By the way, can cats drink wine?
I did not say I didn’t like Haddock as a matter of fact it’s probably my favorite domestic/non-exotic fish cause it’s versatile and tasty; I’m just saying it doesn’t have to be on every menu ; I just remembered a story re: exotic foods that i can’t beleive i forgot anywho i befriended this Laotian guy Hung Ta who worked for me and once asked him what was his absolute fav. food and he said : dog ; I told him he should probably keep that quiet 🙂
Oh NTH, go straight to Robie Food (corner North & Young) for your Chinese food fix. Seriously the most authentic I’ve had so far in Halifax. The place is a bit kitschy, and down-right cold in the winter, but the food is fresh and delicious and plentiful enough for the most gormandizing North American appetite.
gormandizing, thanks 3 a new word for me
I will try that thanks Three. martym, when I am asked what my favourite sushi would be, I’d answer either sea urchin or salmon roe. I guess I should keep that quiet too. lol
really new… can’t beat blue fin sashimi and real california roll (real crab) anything but sea cucumber that shit is the foulest thing I’ve ever put in my mouth 🙂
Sea cucumber…have seen in markets, never tried them. They just look…wrong. Blue fin is good, but the best tuna is what they call “zuke”, marinated tuna sashimi/sushi. I think the foulest thing I have ever put in my mouth is deep fried cow brain. It was gross because it was undercooked.
oh yea when cow brain is cooked properly yummy yummy good; and salmon roe is good and also wild salmon sushi; abalone is pretty weird ass shit asians eat also 🙂