In class, we watched a few videos on the bizarre foods Taiwan. It shows how foods like Stinky Tofu is made. According to the video, they soak it in rotting vegetable matter for two weeks before frying or doing anything to it. I was disgusted when I saw that and it makes me wonder if the people eating it at the enumerable stores on every street corner know what the tofu has gone through. Then there were foods that supposedly cured you or prevented you from certain illnesses or diseases. The only catch -- some of them cost 8000 US dollars per pound.
A lot of the foods that were mentioned in the video had something to do with chickens or geese. Chicken butt, chicken uterus, unlaid chicken eggs, goose tongues, goose heads, etc. There was even an entire 10-15 minutes devoted to white and black chicken testicles.
At the markets, they showed oyster omelets (gooey mixture of plum, oyster, ketchup and egg -- ew), coffin bread (which is basically bread with a bunch of stuff that you can't even identify), and an entire sharks fin (controversial in some aspects).
Overall, I think these few videos have covered most of the bizarre foods that a visitor could find in Taiwan and also gives us a sense of how different foods in different cultures can be. And how many ridiculously nasty dishes they can come up with. And how they can eat stuff like that, knowing what it is.
