Saturday, July 26, 2008

Exotic Foods


I decided to try some new and exotic foods while I had the chance. I tried Golden Kiwi from New Zealand, Plantains from Guatemala, Australian Yogurt, Jackfruit from Thailand, Bubble Tea, and Durian from Thailand. The Golden Kiwi was good it just tasted like kiwi but it was yellow instead of green and the Plantains were pretty good they were like bananas only tougher and not as sweet. The Australian Yogurt was really good my favorite was the mango lime flavor and the Jackfruit was great it didn't taste like anything else I have had before it was just like a whole new flavor. Then the Bubble tea was like the best drink I have ever had it was a sweet tea flavor with little tapioca gummy balls at the bottom and the straw was huge. The Durian is know as the smelliest food in the world and I would agree. It is grown with a hard spiky shell around it which you cut open with a huge ax or knife, then it is the smelliest food in the world because it is supposed to smell like rotting flesh and it does. Also it is very expensive it's like $20 a fruit but they are big but still. I did not get a fresh one that I had to cut and clean I got one that was already cut cleaned and frozen in coconut milk to make the smell weaker. The smell that it did give off was horrible and it tasted like the worst thing I could even imagine. I could not understand why anyone would want to even think about cutting one of these things let alone eating it. It was completely disgusting. I also tried Korean Pineapple soda it was very good but strange to open.