Weird Food

'Ey! You questers! Yes, you, listen to me!

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So, I'm totally one of those aliens who loves pasta, pasta, and more pasta. I also one of those aliens who used to have a hard time with trying weird foods.

I know, that sounds childish and weird, but it's true.

I'm sure several of you carry the same issue. Like, as my parents always said 'How do you know you don't like it? You have tried it yet.'. Always avoid this trick.

Those parents are tricky devils. 

What a horrid human being.

It really wasn't until I started working at my current job that I began to try foreign/unusual dishes.

I've mentioned before that I work for a wine importation and distribution company. It seems to be a recurring theme here that all wine drinkers love exotic food. I'm not too sure about that. But nonetheless, my boss always orders interesting foods.

Once a month we have a sales meeting with our sales representatives. At this meeting wine is drank and items on the mass agenda are discussed. At noon we always have catering done. 

Here is a sampling of our catering over the past years:

December 2010

Cornish Game Hens (with oyster stuffing)

Grilled Vegetables

Rosemary Bread

Peppermint Brownies

January 2011

Sliced Golden Beet Sandwiches (stuffed with ricotta cheese, garnished with Fleur de Sel)

Gourmet Pizzas

Boston Bib Salad (with thin sliced hearts of palm mustard vinaigrette)

Boule or Levan Loaf (with French Normandy butter)

April 2011

Bobotie Samosas (stuffed pastry of egg and spiced minced meat)

Slaai Salad (mixed field greens with grapefruit, avocado, peanuts, and ginger dressing)

Grilled Ostrich Filet (served with green and white asparagus and Cape Malay yellow rice)

Malva Pudding (a sweet caramelized pudding made with apricot jam, served hot with custard)


Bobotie. Spicy, kind of gross if the egg doesn't get done all the way.

May 2011

Fresh Local Radishes (with sea salt and Pasrai olive oil)

Baby Lettuces (with spiced pecans and marinated onions)

Pimenton Braised Local Pork (with corn cakes and tomato relish)

Bittersweet Chocolate Brownies

Acme Sourdough

July 2011

Salad-e-shirazi (tomato and mint salad)

Sabzi (mixed herbs and greens with feta cheese and olives)

Musto Khiar (cucumber and yogurt dip)

Nan-e-barbari (grilled flat bread)

Chelow (steamed basmati rice with saffron)

Jujeh Kabab (steamed brined grilled chicken)

Koresh-e-gomeh Sabzi (braised lamb shanks with fenugreek kidney beans)

September 2011

Dragon Rolls (unagi and cucumber roll, wrapped in seaweed and rice, topped with scales of avocado and tobiko, finished with unagi sauce)
Spider Rolls (tempura style soft shell crab, avocado, cream cheese, and lettuce wrapped in seaweed and rice with tobiko, spicy mayonnaise, and unagi sauce)
New Orleans Roll (shrimp tempura and avocado wrapped in seaweed and rice, topped with spicy kanikama, tobiko, and spicy mayonnaise)
Crouching Tiger Rolls (tempura shrimp and cucumber wrapped with seaweed and rice, topped with broiled unagi, avocado, and finished with unagi sauce, spicy mayonnaise, black tobiko, and orange tobiko)
Maguro Sashimi (tuna)
Sake Sashimi (salmon)
Hamachi Sashimi (yellowtail)
Bol Gol Gi (shaved rip eye, marinated with garlic, soy, honey, and sauteed with onions and mushrooms)
Tai Ji Gol Gi (sliced pork, onions, mushrooms, and peppers - stir-fried with Korean style hot pepper sauce)
Fresh Sauteed Greens
White Rice
Fried Rice


Spider roll. NUMMY!!!

August 2012

Skilpadjies (a South African dish traditionally consisting of lamb meat, kidney, and liver wrapped in caul fat)
Tossed Salad
Garlic Bread


Skilpadjies. Interestingly yuck.

Of course, I've tried weirder foods, like that Peedan egg I made an earlier post about. I've had braised eel (which is amazingly good) and octopus (which is too chewy for me).

I've even slurped back some oysters before, although the brine water makes me feel squicky. 

Because I'm peacing out and can!