16 foods from around the world that you would definitely qualify as weird!

Food lovers definitely want to try out food from across the world, and enjoy the delicacies from different cuisines. However, almost every cuisine in the world has a dish most of us would find weird. So, you think you can taste anything and everything that the world has to offer in terms of food dishes? You might want to hold on to that “Yes” and by the end of this article, you will surely reconsider your position. Without further ado, let’s check out this list of the most weird foods from around the world.

Shirako, Japan

The word Shirako literally translates to “white children” in Japanese. The dish includes sperm sacs from different fish species, which could be either of cod, puffer or angler fish. What may look like mini-sized brains of small animals, it actually tastes quite yummy and can be compared to a sweet custard.

Tuna eyeballs, Japan

Tuna fishes are a huge hit in Japanese culture. So much, so that even the eyeballs of these popular fishes are sold in supermarkets! You can get some for yourself, and after boiling them, you can season them with soy sauce and some garlic and you are good to go! Quite expectedly, they taste like squids.

Balut, the Philippines

Balut is a fertilized duck egg, which has an embryo that is partially developed. This fertilized egg is boiled and then enjoyed straight out of the shell – by adding some salt, pepper, and vinegar. The right way to eat this weird, but tasty food is to tap into the top portion of the egg, relish the liquid part and then chew the developed embryo with its feathers and bones attached! Ugh.

Crispy tarantulas, Cambodia

I don’t think any sane person other than Cambodians would think of food as the first thought that came to their mind on hearing the word tarantula. First eaten during the infamous Khmer Rouge regime when the people were starving of hunger, this food has gone on to become quite popular as a snack and is served all throughout the nation! This deep-fried, weird food apparently tastes like crab meat.

White ant eggs soup, Laos

Quite an unusual choice of soup, Gaeng Kai Mot Daeng includes a combination of white ants’ eggs and partially developed embryo as its main ingredients. To top it off, baby ants are added to the soup as well. Well, if you think you can taste this soup, it is apparently quite delicious and tastes a bit like shrimp with its sharp taste.