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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ChinaNow, all of you may think of food from china as being lovely sweet and sour chicken or soemthing along those lines from your local chippy, or indeed chinese restaurant. Let me tell you 3 months living there paints a whole different story. From cooking food that is still alive infront of you, through to food that is pretty much unrecognisable. so much so that even the locals cant describe whether its meat veg, or well anything.
And so we look to the mid autumn festival. This is a huge festival in which many people travel home to see their families. A common custom is to exchange what is known as 'moon cakes' now, before you get excited they arent the kind that make you happy. the company I was working for in china provided us with gifts of tokens to collect a 'moon cake' as a good will gesture. Splendid!
The cake looks like any other cake, it had a lovely pastry base - what looked like an almond filling, and a glazed top..... what a lovely gesture!
until you eat it and realise it includes meat paste..... chicken and beef to be exact, this has to be one of the most bizarre customs i know! so much so that even the locals hate them, but for traditions sake still exchnage the cakes. In fact whilst i was there, nobody would take a cake off me, they laughed and said no.
oh, and there was the time I ate chickens feet, head, and cow stomach...
(, Thu 17 May 2007, 14:45, Reply)
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