Terrible foodBack when I was a student, we had a "clear out the fridge" party. Everyone brought what they had left and the idea was to make a big meal out of it.
The stew/casserole/whatever was going surprisingly well until someone added the tin of mackerel in tomato sauce they'd been hoarding all year.
What's the worst thing you've ever cooked or eaten? Who's the worst cook you've encountered?
[and yes, we've asked this before, but way, way back before we had the fancy QOTW pages]
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chthonic, Thu 17 May 2007, 10:23)
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I've just been for Dim SumI absolutely ADORE most dim sum (savory pockets of barbeque pork in a light fluffy dumpling, steamed prawn and scallops in a rice pancake, steamed custard buns, turnip/peanut/prawn dumplings etc), but I just took my mother for a meal in Chinatown.
She lived in China for a while in the 1970s, in a really rural university town near the north border of the country (her and my father were being lecturers there in their respective disciplines). Therefore, she's perfectly used to eating foods that would make a western person think twice before sampling them; moreover, she's developed a taste for them.
So, in addition to my yummy scallops, prawn and pork snacks, she ordered: braised whelks in a spicy sweet honey sauce with radishes, hot and sour curried jellyfish (which, for some reason, is served ice-cold), and TRIPE. Ginger and garlic infused TRIPE.
The whelks are surprisingly nice, and I could even handle the jellyfish (long strings of what I imagine hot and sour curried tape worms would taste like), but I cannot stand tripe. It's the lining of a cow's lower intestine. Where all the food passes as it's being converted to shit. It's spongy, tastless, slimy (sounds a bit like Humpty's strange swedish soaked fish thing) and utterly foul.
My strange mother just polished off a massive dish of the damn stuff. I just sat and watched in fascinated disgust. Bleurgh.
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 14:40, Reply)
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