What wierd food have you eaten when you visited Vietnam? Like animals that you wouldn't normally eat. I've only been there once and the only wierd food I've tried was snake. It was actually very good.

Some people mite have not been to Vietnam before so how about "weirdest Vietnamese food you've eaten"...?

hMm.. let's see. I've eaten this rice soup with chicken hearts (don't know what it's called) before and damn, it tasted nasty.

Ahmmm... I'd say "bun bo hue" because it kicks in right after I eat it. Ewach!

I've eaten what my ex-gf's family called "Vietnamese Pizza". I don't know the Vietnamese name but it's made out of duck blood. It was watery but they told me it's supposed to be more solid.

I've not eaten, but seen Vietnamese eat half fertalized duck eggs. When they cracked the shell open, you could see feather and they just dig in with their spoon.

I'm not going to judge but those sure seemed "weird" to me.

LOL. So did you like it or not?

BTW, I've tried both of the things you typed out... For me, it tasted okay.

Hey, those little chickens/ducks are pretty good with salt pepper on it. Aaaahh... the old days.

I only had a bite of the "Vietnamese Pizza" because my ex-gf's family pressured me into it. I didn't dare eat the half-fertalized duck egg and they understood.

Maybe the "Vietnamese Pizza" would have tasted better if it was more solid and that I didn't know it was duck blood

BTW, what are they called in Vietnamese? I'd hate to keep refering to them as "Vietnamese Pizza" and half-fertalized duck egg

Yea, it's pretty good... But i remember when i first saw it, I was like ... So after my dad talked me into trying it, it was pretty good and i ate like four more.

Vietnamese pizza? Never heard of it.

The eggs? It's called "hard-boiled duck egg" aka "trứng vịt lộn."

I described what it is in a post above. Jayson seems to know what it is.

Hahhaahaha... exactly. My brother would never do it again, he thinks it's a little cruel on the little duckies. But I try it like nothing. I just keep thinking that it's just a regular egg, but without the over-medium, I prefer it as "under-easy." Hehehehhehe...

My Mom took me to Korea a long time ago to visit and I saw people eating squids that are still alive. They swallow that bad boy whole.. ..

I think they tried to say Banh Cheo. I saw a picture in a vietnamese restaurant and that's what they invented new name for it in english. Banh Cheo is more like taco,but soft shell.

Is it khmer food or vietnamese? Where is the origin of Banh Cheo came from? I know vietnamese will says it vietnamese.

I know what it is but i just don't know what it's called. . Sorry.

DAI_VIET, it's mashed up duck meat and duck blood combinded and people eat it with ban' chan (I think that's how it's spelled. I'm not good with Vietnamese words.)

I don't know, but it's originated in the North. But "banh cheo" sounds familiar.

Banh Cheo = Ba'nh Xe`o
"Vietnamese Pizza" = Tie^'t Canh .. that's weird though, it's so different from a pizzaa...

i'm a picky eater... so yeah... i dun like Tiet Canh, Trung Vit Lon, anything with the internal organs of any animal.. except its stomach...

Don't ask me, that's what my ex-gf's family told me

Oh yah, "banh xeo" that's right. It looks kinda like tacco like NewKampujua wrote.

Something like "Weik Gun" or that's the way my mom pronounces it. Is it the one I'm thinking you're talking about? Duck blood with peanuts?

-Norm

My in law who is vietnamese loves those duck thing. It is kind of nasty. He call it vietnamese Lab.

On Fear Factor, they had a challenge in which contestants had to eat a bunch of hột vịt lộn & pig instestines (lòng).... I was like đụ má, put me in that challenge !

I saw that one.

I eat it sometimes, but I only eat the yolk. Taste like rich egg.

I've tried bbq porcupine... very crunchy and nice. Although my dad had a weird reaction (red spots all over his body) after he tried it... poor guy.

regular people rarely eat Tiết Canh, mostly popular with drinkers during drinking party...

Thats one of my favs. They got that here over in Australia too thank God. Beautiful when you dip it in salt and pepper.

whats that dark brown stuff that u sumtimes have with chao ?? its squisy.. kind of like tofu ,, i cant remember..

i know what you're talking about

It's either chao huyet or quyet....

Its pig blood jelly. i don't eat that.

i ate Cha'o Quye^'t... and i think it's yummy...

It's cháo huyết (huyết = máu. Same meaning). In Vietnam, they even have pieces of pig lungs and intestine in the bowl (called cháo lòng), but pig lungs are rarely available in the States.

hehehe i am lucky to have tried all these foods.. my mommy was a cook in viet nam soo she like to cook and she knoes alot..
"Tiet Canh" is very yummy if it is done right... i was scared to try it tat first but then i had a whole bowl.. u don't u eat it w/ bang trang and peanuts and lemoens and some herds?
"Chao Long" my aunt banh chao long in viet nam.. i don't like it.. i don't knoe why.. my mom buys pgis intestines from this viet lady that sells them were i live....
"Hot Viet Lon" is how i call it ( don't knoe if i spell that one right).. i afraid to eat the chikv.. it looks soo nasty all hairy and stuff.. but i like the yolk.. i eat it with salt and pepper.. yuuuummmy!!!!

I have never eat this but i saw it on a food movie.. they were eating bats... and my dad said wen he was young in the farms they ate rats... my mom sad she use to cook cockroch and crickets for her friends.. ewwwwwwww!!!!!

I go to New Port, RI every year to go squid fishing, and there are a bunch of Koreans there. They wash the squid in sea water and dip it into a sauce and eat while it's still alive. That $hit was crazy, I wanted to try it though.

I was in Vietnam during Tet. When I sat outside a restaurant, someone brought a huge king cobra and asked me if I want to drink the blood. Damn, the cobra was so intimidating. However I spent 10 bucks to drink cobra blood in my cognac. That night I kept my girlfriend up until 6 AM. At 7AM I still had a hard on.

My American friend and I was eating outside Hanoi. There was a meat dish. He tried it and like it a lot. After the the meal he asked the restaurant owner, who was also entertaining us., what kind of meat was it. This guy does not speak Engliah. He could only say "woof, woof..."

Then there was a dish they showed us. They call it ca` cuo^'ng ... but I could warranty it looked like cockroaches.


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There are so many wonderful restaurants in Thu Duc and Bien Hoa area. There was a dish called "ngoc suong," or goat's ball. Men it tasted awful. I had some "suon heo rung nuong" (board rib bbq) I just love it but hope it wasn't woof woof...