Don't forget your Fish Sauce!

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Social Thread ₁ Featured February 22 , 2008

You select 3 items from our menu, you write your way through that meal! It's harder than it sounds lol

Disclaimer! honorable Vietnamese cooking
Walk away, ye of the faint of heart and fluttery of stomach.

Nuoc Nam - Popular condiment consumed with nearly every meal made from fermented small, whole fish and seafoods in clay bins for up to 2 years, then siphoned off, filtered and bottled. What results is a spicy, fishy, pungent sauce. Nuoc Nam, or Fish Sauce, is a distinctly Vietnamese product closely resembling the ancient Roman condiment 'garum' it is derived from.
And you thought Scottish food was based on a dare?

World travellers who have formed a fondness for the unique culture and friendly people of Vietnam are familiar with it's interesting cuisine, street foods and strange ingredients. Sometimes those foods result in a suprising tasty dish, and sometimes.. not so much.

Your challenge today is to write your way through 3 of the crazy dishes listed below using 1-3 posts
. Which dishes are your choice. (State which dishes you are ordering from Chez le Ewww in your posts). Describe the service, the food, how you managed to choke it down (or not!), your enjoyment of the cuisine (hey, maybe you liked it!), your surroundings if you wish. But whatever you do, don't insult your hosts! They worked very hard to prepare these dishes and besides, one man's dog food may be another man's delicacy.

Mam- fermented fish in various styles. Vietnam
Balut (Trung Vit Long) - duck egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell - Vietnam
Pho - Beef Noodle soup with beef balls & fresh spring onions - Vietnam
Oc len xao dua (Braised "Len Len" snails with coconut milk) - Vietnam
Durian - infamous spiky fruit w/odor resembling used baby diapers - Vietnam
Crispy fried caterpillars, bamboo worms, shipworms & silk worms - Vietnam
Goi Sua Kho -braised cabbage and dried jellyfish - Vietnam
Ech Xao Xa - lemongrass frog legs - Vietnam
Dua Dau Heo - Preserved Pig Head - Vietnam
Steamed Ox Knee - just what it sounds folks - Korea
Kimchi - cabbbage + seasoning buried in jars, often w/ anchovies or shrimp to aid in fermentation - Korea
Testicle soup - no frills here. Water, spices, whole lotta sheep testicles -Mongolia
Gedes - blood sausages made from boiled sheep innards, along with blood - Mongolia

And with every meal, don't forget your fish sauce!

Awards will be a very ugly plaque (but small!), 5000 stcs for first place winner and 3000 stcs for second place winner.
*update; no contest engine required for stcs prizes! That means no annoying auto plaque. Yay YOU! How is this possible? Go pester a demi, how should I know?

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