Fun Friday Gross Foods We Love to Eat

Recently, I joined a yahoo group called Blogging for Fun. I discovered this group through one of Betchai’s blogs, Fun Friday. Every Friday, they come up with a common topic to write about. This is my first Fun Friday post and it’s not even a Friday. I am late by two days! Yikes! Well, better late than never!

Blogging for fun, here I come! The theme for this week’s Fun Friday is “Gross Foods We Love to Eat.” Being Asian, some of the things we eat are a bit strange to some non-Asians, so there are a lot of items flashing in my mind as I write this blog (teehee), Balut (duck embryo) would have topped my list of “gross eats,” but Betchai wrote about Balut already.

Here’s my item: Fish Head in Tamarind Soup. This is one of my favorite eats, especially those big heads with eyes that bulge and stare at me while I eat. Hahaha, I am just grossing you guys out! But seriously, there are many ways to cook fish head. You can fry it, bake it or grill it, but my favorite is fish head in tamarind broth. The process of boiling fish, meat or beef in tamarind broth is called "Sinigang." Just boil fish head in tamarind powder, add salt and leafy veggies and voila -fish head delight. The tamarind powder in a sachet can be found in almost any Asian store.




Today, for lunch, we had Tamarind soup with salmon head, yum! This dish is eaten with rice and best served when still very hot. Sometimes, it is paired with fish sauce -we call “Patis.”

Anthony Bourdain of “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,” once said that the tastiest part of the fish is the meat found in its head.

For dessert, we had mangoes. Better take advantage while it is still in season!

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