September 25, 2010

World's most exotic dishes

Caviar:is fish egg or roe. The caviar that is commonly eaten comes from Sturgeon fish. There are three varieties of sturgeon caviar: beluga, sevruga and oscietra. Beluga caviar is primarily found in the Caspian Sea. It can also be found in the Black Sea basin and occasionally in the Adriatic Sea.
Beluga caviar comes from a fish over 100 years old that is virtually unchanged for 120 million years. Beluga caviar ranges in price from more than $5,000 (Rs 2,50,000/-) per kilogram in the United States

Fugu: is the Japanese word for pufferfish and the dish prepared from the meat of pufferfish or porcupine fish. It can be lethally poisonous if prepared incorrectly. Fugu has become one of the most celebrated and notorious dishes in the Japanese cuisine.

Japanese have eaten fugu for centuries. Fugu is also the only food officially forbidden to the Emperor of Japan, for his safety. Eating Fugu is a sort of bloody sport akin the Russian roulette (Russian roulette is the sport of loading a single bullet in six bullet handgun. Then the magazine is spun and the person playing the roulette aims the gun at his temple and pulls the trigger once. He has a 1/6th chance in killing himself). Same is the case with eating fugu fish. There is always a chance of getting killed and that is precisely the thrill of eating the fugu.

Exotic Arab dish: The most exotic dish in the world is supposed to be cooked in Saudi Arabia. The meat of a pigeon is stuffed into the carcass of a hen which is later stuffed into a body of a sheep. In the same way the sheep’s mutton is stuffed into slabs of beef and finally into a body of a camel. The entire preparation takes lots of time. The eater of the final dish gets taste of five different types of meat in a single bite.

Pootharekulu: or Paper Sweets is a wafer-like sweet of eastern and Coastal Andhra Pradesh in Southern India.

It is a sweet version of a Vegetable Roll where finely ground sugar powder in fine laminated foils made of rice. The wafer's size varies from 100 to 1000 micrometers depending on the expertise of the person who makes it. The best pootharekulu are made in Rajahmundry, Kakinada, and Narsapuram.

In Telugu, pootha means "coating or to coat" and reku means a foil, translating to English as "sugar coated foils".

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