♪ Henry, you a thug, right ♪
♪ Talkin' 'bout I'm eating blood rice ♪
It looks like weed brownies.
Is there weed in here?
- What's up, y'all?
Timothy DeLaGhetto here, and this is "Acquired Taste,"
and I'm on a mission to find the most interesting food
in the world, and eat it with my unsuspecting homies.
- It's stuck to the top of my mouth.
- These are good, wow.
- Today, we're in Flushing, Queens,
one of the most diverse neighborhoods in NYC.
They call it the Chinese Manhattan, and that's not racist,
it's actually just a whole lotta Chinese people out here.
I'm gonna be trying out a Taiwanese delicacy
called the blood rice cake.
It's a popular street food made from pig's blood and rice.
Using pig's blood is pretty common in Asian cuisines.
Blood has been used for centuries
to avoid wasting any part of the animal,
but also because of the health benefits.
Studies show that pig's blood actually contains several types
of minerals, vitamins, and iron,
which is good for your immune system
and helps cleanse toxins, such as alcohol and smog.
Joining me today, I got my lovely homegirl,
rapper, freestyle "Wild 'N Out" extraordinaire,
Justina Valentine, coming through to eat with me.
Now, I know Justina was out being crazy last night,
so maybe this can help her get through her hangover.
She has no idea what she's about to eat, alright?
But before we do that, I'ma stop off
at the Chung Fat Market, and no,
I'm not talking about David So.
Chung Fat Market where you can get all the Asian ingredients
that you need.
Let's check it out.
I'll show you guys what it's like
going to an Asian supermarket.
It takes me back to being a little kid
going to the market with my mom.
You know, you walk in, immediately you smell
the whole (beep) ocean out here.
You know they got every little type of fish and barnacle,
I don't even know what that is.
Another thing you're gonna notice about the Asian market
is that you're gonna see a whole lotta ladies
that look just like my mom.
People wanna look at Asian people crazy
for eating (beep) like pork blood, the tripe,
or even the chicken feet, (beep) that you think
you wanna throw away.
But, it's just that we grew up
trying to make the most out of everything,
not trying to waste food, and then you get
these dope delicacies, you feel me?
I mean, I've had some pork blood in some soup
or in some rice soup situation.
Pork blood rice cake, I've never had it before.
Alright, wasn't that fun?
There's nothing like a good ol' trip to the Asian market
to pick up some little interesting ingredients, right?
I'm ready to go the Legend Chicken
to try these pork blood cakes.
But before Justina gets here, we gonna go in the kitchen
and see how everything is made and put together, alright?
Let's go.
Oh, hello sir.
- Hey, Tim, how are you? - Tim, what's up?
Nice to meet you, man.
How's it going, brother? - Nice to meet you.
- What's up?
- We're gonna get ready, let's put these gloves on.
- Where do you get your blood from, bro?
You can't just go to like, down the street, corner store
and get some blood-- - You can't,
these are actually from a qualified supplier.
- Yeah? - USDA approved.
- Woo!
That looks like some just ketchup or some marinara sauce.
That looks like some strawberry pudding.
- These are actually very fresh,
I just picked these up yesterday.
So we're gonna strain down the blood into our sticky rice.
- Okay. - You just basically
just grind it down,
grind it. - Oh yeah,
you ever eat it when it's just like this?
(Tim laughs) - No, no, I'm not a vampire.
- And that sucks.
Should I get in there, should I help?
- Not right now,
not right now, yeah. - Alright, cool, cool,
do your thing, do your thing, cool.
I don't wanna mess up
the blood process.
- You have to really watch out,
because if your hand temperature is way too hot,
it will change the texture. - Interesting.
- You will taste more of the iron.
When it start turning warm, you don't wanna
mess with it no more, you just wanna pour it in, so--
- This is looking like some strawberry jello
and like rice pudding.
- This has to be steamed probably 45 minutes.
- Viola!
Alright man, you go ahead and finish this up,
I got Justina coming over right now.
I'm hungry, so--
- Leave that to me. - Okay,
leave it to you.
You got it, no problem.
- Timothy!
- Oh my god, finally! (Justina screaming)
Jeez, took forever.
- I ran here from Jersey.
- How you been, how's life? - I've been good,
everything's good, just missing you.
- Yeah? - You always bring me to eat.
- I know. - You're fattening me up
like a Christmas turkey.
- I just, you know, I just wanna make sure
you're taken care of.
- I mean, at least all my weight goes to my (beep).
Here, let's take our pants off.
- Okay, why are we taking our pants off?
- 'Cause these pants are a little stiff,
and it'll be easier and more comfortable.
- Okay, I got you.
- Oh my gosh, I haven't even shaved the kitty.
All right, can you guys blur out my (beep)?
Thanks.
- Leave the whole thing in there.
This man just trying to bring us some food,
what's up? - Hey!
- Guys, hey you guys.
- I'm nervous.
- We have our-- - Is this your cousin?
Yous look just alike.
- Savage. - Put your heads
next to each other.
- That means you're sexy, bro.
- Authentic Taiwanese snack right here,
our signature Legend Chicken.
- Legend Chicken. - We have the spicy sausages,
we have our spate, which is a hidden menu,
traditional authentic Taiwanese snack.
- What is a spate?
I've never had this before.
- Chicken butt.
- Chicken butt?
Oh! - Chicken butt.
We gon' eat that (beep), Tim, you're good at that.
This is why you're a good vlogger.
- Mm-hm. - You never miss the moment.
- True, I'm ready for it.
Well, what else you got for us, dog?
- Then we have the gizzards, fish roe sausages.
- Fish roe sausages,
you know what that is? - So it's fish
in a roll? - But it's like fish,
like eggs, fish roe.
- Small little capelin roe inside the Taiwanese sausages.
- So that's a little fish egg
in the sausage. - Oh that's garlic there, huh?
We not making out tonight.
- Hey, as long as we both have funky breath,
we good. - That's true.
- This is just the appetizers--
- The snacketizers. - Just to warm up your palate
a little bit. - Okay, it's warm.
- And then I got the main thing coming later.
- Let's get down. - Let's try this chicken butt.
- Okay.
- Cheers, eat the booty.
- It's good.
- I like that you got a little bit of,
I like the cartilage, too, the cartilage in the booty,
you know what I'm saying? - Oh.
- A little crunchy to it?
- Now does my chewing offend you?
I hope it doesn't.
- Oh yeah, let me tell you something.
- Just shake your head and walked away.
- Justina chews very loudly, so I apologize
to the audio people--
- Oh, sorry. - But you know what?
Some cultures feel like if you are smacking,
then you're enjoying it. - You're enjoying it,
okay, hello! - Yeah, yeah, yeah,
not my culture. - I'm Italian,
we enjoying this (beep).
- Is that what y'all do?
- Mm-hm, we gonna have some pasta,
we're gonna have some chicken fried cheese.
- Chicken fried cheese?
- Yeah, but we're gonna have a little fucking pizza.
- Oh, pasta, it's a my.
♪ La la la la, la la la la ♪
♪ La la la, la la la la la ♪
- Now, you can go the rest of your life knowing
that you like chicken butt. - Guess what?
Chicken butt.
And now that little saying has a whole new meaning.
- Guess who?
- Chicken poo? - Yep.
- You're sick.
Alright, let's play a game, speaking of poop,
this is one of my favorite games.
It's called Everyone's Got A Price,
because the truth is everyone's got a price.
So, to eat a piece of your own poop,
I got a piece of poop, your poop from your (beep), this big,
$50,000 untaxed, oh, and let me add,
excuse me,
you can roll up the (beep) in a french fry
and have you a (beep) french fry burrito, if you will.
- Well, how 'bout you?
How much you eating (beep) for? - I'll probably do it for,
I mean, $100,000, my own (beep) right here untaxed.
- $100,000? - I'll probably do it
for $100,000.
- Ugh, alright, you got me thinking about it.
- $100,000! - I'll do it for $300,000.
- Alright. - Let's move onto this,
let's get this fish roe
sausage. - Oh, I'm nervous about this.
You said there's like fish eggs in there?
Am I gonna grow a goldfish in my stomach?
- Possibly.
Here's the thing, it's gonna give you more power though.
All the little eggs you eat.
- What if I (beep) out a fucking shark?
- Maybe.
- Oh my gosh.
- Hm. - I don't like this.
That tastes like I just ate some raw fish booty.
- I mean, that's kind of
what it is. - I just ate out a mermaid.
- What you wanna go next?
- I mean, that looks like a
daunting dish 'cause it's big. - Oh, the chicken!
Let's get it.
Ooh yeah. - Really good.
- Mm-hm. - Mm-hm.
- I like that Taiwanese spice on there, crispy.
- Whatever these crumbles are, so good.
- You wanna try a gizzard?
- Thank god, 'cause I was getting very full.
My goodness,
cheers. - Cheers.
- What exactly is a gizzard again?
- Stomach. - Oh wow,
okay. - Mm, mm, mm-hm.
- This is very chewy. - Mm-hm, mm.
That's fire. - I don't love
the texture on it-- - Texture?
- I prefer the butt,
I'm a butt person, I guess. - Prefer the butt.
But I like the way some little tiny organs taste fried up,
you feel me? - Oh god, don't remind me.
- We got one more thing I wanna introduce to you.
- Okay. - All right?
It's a Taiwanese delicacy, alright?
'Cause I helped Henry prepare it.
- You did? - Mm-hm.
- Ooh, did you wash your hands?
- Of course, so are you ready for this?
- Yes. - Let's do it.
- We have the blood rice cake.
- Blood rice cake.
- Blood? - To match your hair.
- Of what kind of animal?
Or is it Tim's?
He, in preparing it, he sacrificed--
- I opened up a vein for you. - Is it really yours?
What's the blood?
- Pork blood.
- What do yous do with the blood?
Do you, you know, boil it? - We cook it
in a bath of steam. - Make it clean?
- Oh, steam with some steamed rice.
- Oh, it's steamed.
♪ Henry, you a thug, right ♪
♪ Talkin' 'bout I'm eating blood rice ♪
It looks like weed brownies.
- So how you feeling? - Is there weed in here?
I don't know, they're warm, they're inviting.
- They're fresh out of the oven.
- Oh my gosh, they're reddish tinted,
that's blood. - It's blood.
- Ooh, when I squeeze it, it oozes out!
- You know what?
I've actually never had this before.
- The brown stuff, please don't tell me that's the blood.
- That's the blood.
- Oh my goodness, no!
- But I'm sharing this experience with you,
'cause I've never had this either.
- The crazy part is it doesn't smell bad.
- It smell fire, he got the little cilantro
on there. - You should've just told me
it was a brownie and tell me after.
Okay.
- We took the blood, and then we kind of squished it down
into some rice, you know what I'm saying?
- Ew, like jelly.
- Yeah, yeah, it looked just like jelly actually.
- What did the blood come in?
- It comes in a-- - Like a big bag,
like a hospital bag?
- It's like a tub,
they're from like-- - Oh!
(Tim laughs) A (beep) tub of blood?
- Yeah, it's not like old or anything.
- Oh good, so the blood was fresh?
- Yeah, pretty much. - Great, that doesn't make
me feel any better.
You're sick.
- Ready?
Mm.
- Surprisingly, it doesn't have much of a taste.
- So the rice is in there,
it kind of melts it down. - Ew, it taste like blood!
Ew, it taste like a copper penny!
- Does it? - Yes!
That definitely tastes like a copper penny,
or the butt hole, 'cause the butt hole
has a copper-ish taste to it.
- No, no, you're talking the person licking the coochie.
I never licked a butt hole in my life.
- Well, I'm not as prolific at--
- Oh wait, wait, that's a lie. - Ooh, that tasted coppery.
- Oh, you know what it is?
Oh, you're tasting the iron in the blood.
- Yes, yes, yes!
- It has a slight iron-ish aftertaste.
- That might be the (beep) but it's also in the butt.
And look, I had a nice bite, too.
- You did, you wanna dip it in some hot sauce?
- No, it tasted like blood to me.
Like if you wouldn't have told me what it was,
I think that aftertaste was so strong to me
I think I would've still caught it and been like,
"Why does this taste like a penny?"
- Fire, though.
- I don't know about fire.
- Some believe that consuming the blood in general
is good for your immune system,
there's some vitamins and minerals in there
that help detoxify your system.
- Really? - And I know
you came in hungover, so it's like, that's gonna help you.
- What about if you're late on your period?
Maybe that'll make my own blood start?
- And then dude, nah, that's not where,
you gotta consume the blood that other people
don't be consuming.
That's how I been trying to tell people.
- Thank you so much for having me.
- I love you so much.
- Love you more.
- Thanks for being a good sport.
- Absolutely. - 'Cause you know
I'm all about just trying new things.
- That's not what it is. - What're you playing flash?
- Yeah.