Weird Meat
Blog URL http://www.weirdmeat.com/
Located San Francisco, California USA
Tags food, travel, weird, humor, asia, china, strange, science, meat
WeirdMeat.com, a travel and food blog. Documents experiences eating strange foods around the world. What is weird to one, is normal to another. I want to find out why. Includes articles, travel stories, photos.
Latest Blog Posts
- Deer Antler Gum Drops on Nov 10, 2009 in hipster deer
I spent last Christmas eve up in Shenyang, China. Shenyang is a city in the cold harsh north, half way between Beijing and Russia. I had one of those stupid DJ gigs where I got to play for 20 minutes in between some Russian dancers and a group of Chi...
- Spicy Tit ? on Oct 13, 2009
Blogging has been difficult as the tool is blocked in China, where WeirdMeat is currently spending time eating. But we managed to find a little loop hole. It's not perfect but we're going to try to post this.A friend snapped this photo in Shanghai.
- Octopus Beak on Jul 29, 2009 in octopus
I've been writing about weird meat for a while now, so I get quite excited when I run into a new weird food that I've never seen before -- especially when I have no idea what it is... I was at the Huang Long seafood market in the city of Hangzhou, w...
- Snake + Cake on Jun 29, 2009 in snake
There is a restaurant at 115 Xingfu Road in Shanghai called Lin Lin. Lin Lin specializes in fresh snakes. It's a small, divey place and in the little courtyard behind the kitchen there's a stack of cages that hold several species of live snakes.The...
- Food You Don't Like... on Jun 29, 2009
photo of "uni" (sea urchin) by Inside-JapanYou know how there's some foods out there that people have a hard time with? I'm not talking about the "weird" stuff we usually write about. Stuff like ... dried coconut. I know so many p...
- Pig Hoof vs. Turtle on Jun 12, 2009 in beijing pig turtle
We were up in Beijing with our favorite new band Reptile & Retard, and across the alley from the Boat club (awesome frozen mojitos!), we grabbed a nice meal at the Qingdao Restaurant. Qingdao is a city on the coast of North-East China, and it's...
- Snake Alley, Taiwan on May 2, 2009 in traditional chinese medicine snake taiwan aphrodisiac TCM
Huaxi Jie, Taipei, TaiwanAfter filling up on Rooster Testicles and Deer Penis Wine, we had to hit the main attraction on Snake Alley, and down some shots of snake bile.The restaurant hosts a twice-hourly public snake feeding. They feed a mouse to a...
