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JudasIscariot: Not sure about crocodile but I've had some gator tail meat. It's a little chewier than normal but very good :)
I'd like to try some fugu but I would be too scared that I'd get my portion prepared by a grade F chef :/
I had the chance to sample some crocodiles on a braai last year, but I just couldn't scrape together the courage to try some :P Next time though I'm gonna be all over it!
Don't worry about the fugu - Homer turned out ok in the end ;)
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JudasIscariot: I'd like to try some fugu but I would be too scared that I'd get my portion prepared by a grade F chef :/
I want to try fugu as well, but I will never be brave enough to actually do so D:
Friend of mine ate fugu and survived.

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KiNgBrAdLeY7: About sushi, it is really easy. Locate a sushi bar, i understand that in your region, there must be many. Just make sure to ask for a NEW STYLE TAMAKI ROLL, which means a sushi roll (wrapped roll) with cooked fish instead of raw. Raw fish has a strange taste and it can give you nasty infections.
I actually prefer sushi with raw fish. Tastes much better :) My favourite Japanese food is sashimi, which is basically raw salmon (or other meat, but I've only eaten salmon).
I know, I'm weird ._.
Post edited December 03, 2014 by MadyNora
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: About sushi, it is really easy. Locate a sushi bar, i understand that in your region, there must be many. Just make sure to ask for a NEW STYLE TAMAKI ROLL, which means a sushi roll (wrapped roll) with cooked fish instead of raw. Raw fish has a strange taste and it can give you nasty infections. Or visit a supermarket, and buy a sushi kit with predetermined dosages for certain servings, a make it yourself style. Buying the individual ingredients is very expensive, especially if your regional tax/VAT is really high. Sushi becomes what you want it to be; you can use cucumber or avocado, smoked fish (really great, isn't raw but still not cooked, and healthy) like salmon, the sushi rice annointed with the rice vinegar, a pinch of wasabi pasted inside (take care for it to be minimal, it burns like hell) in a thin trail, and served with ginger pickle. Wrapped with that seaweed sheet, nori.

Lobster can be expensive. Try to find raw and living one, to buy. You can cook it yourself, with spaghetti or other pasta. You boil it with little salt and other seasoning, as per your tastes. You keep the boiled water, inside it you cook the spaghetti. You prepare the sauce, like "sauce Americaine", one of the most used and most tasty things to serve a lobster with. You pour sauce upon the spaghetti, and enjoy your crustacean with it. You need tool to crak open the hard armor, or durable knife/fork, or strong hands, or a combination of these.

Both are healthy, tasty, and somewhat expensive. Try to prepare yourself, this way you save many expenses, and you enjoy your meal doubly so, because YOU have created it... Totally worth the money and efforts. Those 2 rock.
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shadowrgog: Wow, definitely taking notes on this. You really got me drooling in my mind over such a vivid and concise description of those foods I want to try. I am not much of a personal preparer but those seem like valid points to try it myself sometime! Preparing it myself is much of a more risky venture considering I am not a good cook, but once I get something of a taste from premade meals like the new style tamaki roll you mentioned, it'll be more familiar to try prepare on my own one day. Thanks for the reply. +1 for tasty dreams that can be a reality one day :)
Boiling lobsters and big crabs is pretty easy. You drop them in lightly salted water while still alive (YUMM, fresh!), and boil them over fire. When they become red, stop moving and their eyes become milky, they are done. Boiling spaghetti is also pretty easy, you don't even need to be a cook or have experience, it is one of those foods like eggs that everybody can make foolproof, even when during their very first time. Pasta need to be dropped inside boiling water, never cold, with a little bit of olive oil added. Others prefer butter, but it is heavy and fatty. Just make sure to find a recipe about lobster+sauce americaine, study it a little bit, get yourself the ingredients, cook and enjoy.

Sushi kit contains instructions. But even by watching one video about sushi rolling on Youtube, you can easily do it even without instructions at all! I got the "Blue Dragon" brand, but judging by my locale and commerce, it has to be a 3d rate product, as with most imports anyway that find their way here. I forgot to warn you though, should you buy a sushi kit, you need to buy that avocado or cucumber, and that smoked salmon pieces, extra; kit contains everything else (rice, rice vinegar, wasabi, pickled ginger serving, nori sheets, bamboo roller, chopsticks (yea, those too).
Post edited December 04, 2014 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
Another set of notes to add, thanks KiNgBrAdLeY7! Such description is like hearing it in a tv cooking show, seems so simple until you actually get dirty with it lol. I have to admit, when I actually build up enough confidence to attempt preparing it (both lobsters and sushi), I will watch all sorts of youtube content relating to it, with printed notes such as what you offered to boot! But like I said, tis a risky thing for myself since I never even tried those before. Perhaps what I prepare would be better than the premade restaurant variety, but I won't know until I try it! Personally, in an unrelated note but food related, cooking burgers is way more tastier than stuff in fast food places pretty much all the time. Although, restaurants like in Steak & Shake that I have here tend to have competing quality burgers too.
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shadowrgog: Another set of notes to add, thanks KiNgBrAdLeY7! Such description is like hearing it in a tv cooking show, seems so simple until you actually get dirty with it lol. I have to admit, when I actually build up enough confidence to attempt preparing it (both lobsters and sushi), I will watch all sorts of youtube content relating to it, with printed notes such as what you offered to boot! But like I said, tis a risky thing for myself since I never even tried those before. Perhaps what I prepare would be better than the premade restaurant variety, but I won't know until I try it! Personally, in an unrelated note but food related, cooking burgers is way more tastier than stuff in fast food places pretty much all the time. Although, restaurants like in Steak & Shake that I have here tend to have competing quality burgers too.
Everything homemade, even without high skill, is most of the times, tastier and healthier, than the things they serve outside for a price. First thing is that YOU choose the ingredients, their quality, how fresh and in good condition they are. And if you frequently cook things for yourself, skill naturally kicks in.

Like in MMO, cooking should be picked by everyone, and all classes can learn it! :D :P
Post edited December 04, 2014 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
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JudasIscariot: I'd like to try some fugu but I would be too scared that I'd get my portion prepared by a grade F chef :/
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MadyNora: I want to try fugu as well, but I will never be brave enough to actually do so D:
Friend of mine ate fugu and survived.

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KiNgBrAdLeY7: About sushi, it is really easy. Locate a sushi bar, i understand that in your region, there must be many. Just make sure to ask for a NEW STYLE TAMAKI ROLL, which means a sushi roll (wrapped roll) with cooked fish instead of raw. Raw fish has a strange taste and it can give you nasty infections.
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MadyNora: I actually prefer sushi with raw fish. Tastes much better :) My favourite Japanese food is sashimi, which is basically raw salmon (or other meat, but I've only eaten salmon).
I know, I'm weird ._.
that is one of my all-time favorite foods, sashimi. though salmon is my least favorite fish to have with it. Clam, tuna belly and sea urchin are fantastic.
i return 12 hours later to this

its a fucking monster what has science done ?!

and compared to some my initialopening salvo of food i want to try seems positive milquetoast
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snowkatt: i return 12 hours later to this

its a fucking monster what has science done ?!

and compared to some my initialopening salvo of food i want to try seems positive milquetoast
Yeah. This thread kinda went downhill. It started with a simple delicious recipe, now people are talking enthusiastically about boiling crustaceans alive. Yeah... What's next? :)
Post edited December 04, 2014 by Pardinuz
Bought some Kangaroo steaks, hope to try them at the weekend if I can get the fond nostalgic pictures of Skippy the bush kangaroo out of my head :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_agtNKbgSfI
Post edited December 04, 2014 by F1ach
This
[url=]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinky_tofu[/url]
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snowkatt: i return 12 hours later to this

its a fucking monster what has science done ?!

and compared to some my initialopening salvo of food i want to try seems positive milquetoast
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Pardinuz: Yeah. This thread kinda went downhill. It started with a simple delicious recipe, now people are talking enthusiastically about boiling crustaceans alive. Yeah... What's next? :)
What's wrong with it? They are food, they are not killed for fun or entertainment, without a purpose. And boiling them while still alive, means that they are FRESH, full of nutrients they are not going to loose (like if they had been frozen), and much more tasty than a frozen mass of something that died "ages" ago. Sea food, like fish and crustaceans, are ideally cooked fresh, while still living, or at least freshly killed.

Frozen food is a bummer. Avoid it whenever possible.
Post edited December 04, 2014 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
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Shaaka: This
[url=]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinky_tofu[/url]
The Wrecklesseating crew have done that one a time or two before on their youtube show. I'm pretty sure it made them throw up.
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Shaaka: This
[url=]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinky_tofu[/url]
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Emob78: The Wrecklesseating crew have done that one a time or two before on their youtube show. I'm pretty sure it made them throw up.
Yeah well you'll only live once right? LOL
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Emob78: The Wrecklesseating crew have done that one a time or two before on their youtube show. I'm pretty sure it made them throw up.
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Shaaka: Yeah well you'll only live once right? LOL
YOLO_TOFU. I may not like tofu, but that name rocks.
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Shaaka: Yeah well you'll only live once right? LOL
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Emob78: YOLO_TOFU. I may not like tofu, but that name rocks.
YOLO_TOFU nice name lol, just wish got the chance to try that sooner or later.