Hello girlfriends and welcome to another episode of Tried And Tested.
Now you guys are always requesting for food episodes so today we are going to do a food episode.
But it's a little bit different from the rest.
So we're not doing like the usual cup noodles or snacks or candies.
We are going to do what some might call unusual and exotic foods.
What does that mean???
Okay okay so just to caveat that's that
I usually order like the things that are a little bit odd on the menu
and some people might call that weird food but actually, some of these things seem quite
okay to me.
Literally, like if I saw on the menu I'll be like
that's lunch or that's dinner.
And some of you might find this a little bit strange but maybe after this episode,
you'll give it a shot.
Let's see.
What we have here is lamb brain soup and lamb tongue soup.
We got it from a mutton soup store.
I actually love mutton soup but as I'm smelling this,
this smell a little bit different from mutton soup.
I don't know why but it looks the same.
Actually, brains have been cooked and eaten
for a long long long long long time but I think they've kind of fallen out of favour
but in some parts of the world, it's like absolutely very common.
It is very high cholesterol, so don't eat too much of it.
I like pig brains they're very yummy but I have never tried lamb brain before.
Hmm, that's so good.
It's like creamy and a bit livery, slightly irony taste.
It reminds me of something but I can't remember what.
Pâté!
Yeah, it's a bit like pâté, but the outside
is a bit bouncier than pâté and there's a bit more of a bite.
I'm gonna try the soup.
It kind of tastes like mutton soup but creamier almost.
If you've had collagen soup, it kind of taste like collagen soup.
The brain itself is creamy, the soup is a bit creamy so everything just fits together so nicely.
This is slightly different from pig brain, cause pig brain kind of falls apart a bit more like tofu.
This one feels a little bit harder.
Brain, some people feel it has a bit of a smell.
I guess is a gamy kind of smell, like a meat game, or fishy or something.
Is a very distinctive smell and like this soup is such a lovely match to it.
It's like, I don't know, it's like spices, it just balances out that flavour really nicely
cause it cuts through the heavy denseness of it.
It's not super hot or spicy but there is a bit of a kick or something in there which is lovely.
Absolutely delicious.
10 10 10 10 10, 10 10 10 10 10
So good!
Alright, let's try this lamb tongue.
I think we found the tip of the tongue guys.
I have feelings about that.
It's a very weird feeling because
like recognizing that that was the tip of the tongue,
the tip of the tongue was like this and then my tongue was like this,
and it was kind of like that.
So it kind of felt a bit weird.
Cause I was like it kind of makes it real when you see a part of the thing.
But I was like, what are you talking about,
I just look at a whole-brain but it thinks it's different because when your...
when the tongue is on the tongue... you know what I mean?
Yeah! Woo!
We will probably stick to the back parts of the tongue instead.
The front part is too...oh I can feel it.
I can still feel like the tongue rubbing against mine.
It's a very strange feeling.
So I found another part of the tongue and I think that these are the taste buds.
Like lamb tongue, the taste bud doesn't go all the way like there is one part that's just smooth
and there's another part like just the taste buds.
Okay, so that part of the tongue,
the skin is like thicker and also with more texture,
so a bit more almost like a very very very thin leather.
I think this looks very tenderly,
I have a feeling that this is probably the back.
Lots of cartilage bits in here and slightly
I think muscly part mix with that really tender meat.
This part is very interesting texturally.
Well, I like this part because it's kind of
fun to chew because you have the soft, you have the muscly, you have the tenderly,
it's like a nice mix.
I think that the lamb tongue is really fun.
I think there is a lot more variety in terms of texture.
Some parts of the skin of the tongue, I'm just...not quite for me.
So I imagine if I was to be eating it, I would be like cutting out all the skin.
I think the texture for the tongue meat to me is like a really tenderly cooked duck.
Like a bit crossed with like the firmness of a mutton.
I really like the texture of the meat of the tongue.
Think the soup is the same for both.
So this is from a famous kambing soup place in Upper Boon Keng and it is so good.
Oh my god, this is delicious.
They have regular kambing soup too and the soup is yummy.
So I think I would give this like a well a
10/10. It's good.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the skin so I would take that down to like a
9/10, I mean if you do like the skin and you like the texture of the meat then you know,
I would give it a 10.
So next up we have crickets and silkworms.
So these are the crickets and ooh
these are the silkworms.
Eating bugs is actually part of like many different cultures in the world
and a lot of people have them like as a drinking snack.
Okay, let's try maybe the cricket first.
This smell a little bit like fried plastic.
It's interesting because it kind of almost reminds me of small bits of fried
some kind of skin.
It as a seasoning or even as a snack, it could be like small bits of fried skin,
chicken skin or like I don't know what but the way they seasoned it is actually really nice.
Just know I was pretty sure the head tasted different from the body.
But let me try.
Yeah, the head is a little bit more like a... you know how you eat prawn head
like that's a more pungent smell that comes from the prawn head.
So I personally like to eat prawn head like to suck out the juices of prawn head.
But if you eat the part where the eyes are, that part tastes a little bit different from
the bottom part of the head.
So that tasted like the eye part.
I prefer the body. I prefer the body to the head.
Like you see ah, it's so small, it's almost a bit like rice, I imagine people just kind
of like eating it by the mouthful.
It's a bit like um, very light very airy ikan bilis.
Ikan bilis is a little bit harder but this has a lighter crunch.
This is really quite good.
Alright, let's try these.
Silkworms, it really smells like carrot cake.
There's a meaty nutty texture to it.
There is a slight very very very very slight bug flavour.
But it's quite juicy actually.
I think that if you're drinking, this could be so good.
The inside is a little bit pasty. It's a bit like..
you know the ang gu kueh, then they have that green bean one,
the dry green bean one is a bit like that kind of texture.
And it's good because it's got that crunch
but also it has a substantial meaty flavour which I think is kind of hard to find because
for example if you had spam fries, the outside is a bit crunchy, the inside is meaty but
you don't get this, the light crunchy crispiness of like this exoskeleton.
But they season this so nicely, I don't know what it is, like, I don't know,
garlic, soy, sesame oil maybe.
Anyhow only, macam(as if) I cook.
I think I would give this a
10/10 because I love the contrasting textures.
This I think I would give this a
7/10 because while the texture is quite nice
and if you want something crunchy, it definitely hits the mark.
But I feel this one, there's so much exoskeleton that it is a bit drying.
That plasticky smell, like waft in and out but, is slightly not quite my thing.
Yeah...but this is yummy.
Actually, with bugs, the preparation does seem to be quite important because
at that time I remember, I ate a scorpion.
When I ate it, I was like oh this is, this is quite nice.
It kind of reminded me a bit of like soft shell crab.
But my friend who was eating it was like, oh it tastes so bad.
It tastes like the smell when you crush a bug, that smell that comes out, she said it tastes like that.
Then I didn't know what she was talking about then, later on,
third or fourth one that I had, I was like oh...
now I know what you're talking about.
That scorpion did not taste good.
So if I had started with that scorpion, I wouldn't have tried another one.
I think with a lot of bugs is the exoskeleton that kind of gets you because
it's almost taste like you're crunching on plastic.
I've tried silkworm before.
The one that I tried, the way it was prepared, it just tasted really nutty and it was in a salad.
So that was quite interesting.
And I've also had, I think there is a coconut worm, a coconut grub.
You know Lion King, Timon and Pumbaa then that
bug with a black head and a big fat white body,
you know it's like grub and then they...
So it's like is that bug.
I've eaten a zebra tarantula so that's quite nice, it tasted a bit like dried pork floss.
It's a bit hairy.
And bee larvae.
Bee larvae look like small versions of this. So good.
So here we have deer penis soup and it's supposed to have a lot of therapeutic properties including
like being an aphrodisiac.
So here we got it from a Singapore restaurant that sells it in a soup.
This is interesting because this is like $35.
Which is not cheap for a bowl of soup.
I guess it gives you an indication as to how special deer penis is.
So the soup is really quite tasty.
A bit sweet, a bit bitter, very tang.
The clarity is really nice.
Okay so let's try the penis.
No real distinctive flavour really.
Actually, I feel like all the flavours are coming from the soup.
It's a bit crunchy.
It does taste like a sea cucumber.
Maybe a bit like a sea cucumber.
Drier than sea cucumber
because it is not like jellyfish because it's really it doesn't have that kind of wet sliminess.
It's actually, the inside is really quite...
I mean it's weird to say, but it's almost quite dry even though
it's been soaking in soup for a while.
When you bite through it, it's like soft but then it's got more of a crunchiness then agar does.
I just saw the Peehole.
Is that where the pee comes out?
Yeah, that's a yummy soup, deer penis or no deer penis.
I like the texture of it. It's good.
10/10!
And it's also supposed to be good for your health so I guess 10/10.
This is Ika Shiokara.
What it is is squid sashimi that has been mixed with its own innards
and then left to ferment.
I love sashimi and looking at this, like the way that they've used it, it kind of makes me think of
natto or Uni even.
But I'm not sure.
Yeah this sounds interesting because I haven't had raw innards before.
It smells really good. Kind of doesn't smell like squid.
Smells like something fishy and salty.
It's very salty and it's very slimy.
There are some people who are very sensitive to like raw food,
raw food feels like it's very slimy.
This is like slimy times a hundred because there is also a slight like stickiness.
There is a bit of roe like flavour. This really tastes like mentaiko to me.
The squid is still very firm and crunchy almost.
There's a little bit sour, like a pickle almost right.
If no one told me this was innards, I never would have guessed.
Delicious!
I give it like a
10/10 so good.
So for most people, when they prepare chicken,
they will throw away the butt but in a lot of cultures, it is actually very common to eat it.
So they have prepared it in a few different ways as they can grill it, deep-fry it, barbeque it etc etc.
So I actually quite liked chicken butt.
I find the meat to be very soft and tender and tasty.
So today we have some chicken butt and this is slightly different from the ones that I usually eat.
Usually, the ones I have you can like to see the whole butt.
So what we have here is from a Japanese charcoal grill place.
I think they've taken out like the bones and everything.
If you had this one a plate you would not know that this was a chicken butt.
What I quite like about chicken butt like okay, so this one, it feels like you're eating lumps of fats.
But there's still a bit of meat.
I kind of feel like it's all mixed together and it's just quite fatty and oozy.
Which is quite good. I'm eating all of these.
For this one, I feel like I'm eating more meat just because they have taken out all
the bone so it makes it easier.
So the last time that I had like the full chicken butt, actually, there's like a bit of like bone,
like small little bone in it.
So I would kind of like to eat around it but I guess like sometimes also if you want to
you can sort of eat it the way you would eat like a chicken claw.
Like you, will kind of like stuck around the bone because of the bone just kind of falls apart.
It's very...everything around it is just really tender.
The last time I had it, it was from a Taiwanese Street food chain.
But apparently, the stopped selling it so I guess maybe it wasn't so popular.
I think that if I could have it so conveniently prepared, I think it would definitely be one
of my favourite chicken parts. Rating, I don't know...
10, 10, 10 out of 10.
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