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Why Soup Made From Dried Bird Saliva Costs $100 Per Bowl

Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 14:00 MJA Uncategorized 26

Looks like I’ll be saving $100.

26 Comments on Why Soup Made From Dried Bird Saliva Costs $100 Per Bowl

  5. I *may* have had that, back in 1979 when my scout troop did an Asia summer trip which somehow included dinner at Maxim’s in Hong Kong. Or it may have been bird’s foot soup. Something odd with a bird. I certainly knew what it was at the time.

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  10. And don’t you dare eat baluts or skewered monkey meat on a stick that is sold as street food in the Philippines either. The best Chinese food that I ever ate was at a real Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong in 1974 with a bunch of guys from my fighter squadron. The fish was so fresh as you picked out what fish you wanted to eat from their large aquarium. And the best steak that I ever ate was in Singapore which probably came from a water buffalo.

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  12. The reason it is so expensive, is they have to clean the bird poop out of the nest. You may wonder why it is necessary to clean bird poop out of a nest made of spit. That’s because eating that would be disgusting.

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  14. @PHenry – I went to China in 2002 on a 2-week tour with one of my B-School professors. He would fit right in here, a wonderful human being who happened to be on Nixon’s NSC, so he had a lot of connections in China.
    We stayed at hotels every night and dined at restaurants and the hotels, except for one night near Qufu (where Confucius spent much of his life) when we stayed with families. The mother brought out dish after dish for the 7 of us to share (host dad and 3 of his friends, my roommate and me, and our college-age interpreter). Fortunately for me my roommate was very adventurous, as there were a couple of dishes where I said ‘Phil, I’m not touching that’ – which was important, because none of the others would partake until at least one of the guests had. But that aside, the food was delicious! Coming from a poor family, most of the ingredients from their backyard (including leaves from the tree) – and it was the best meal I had on that trip! Including the famous Peking Duck place where we had our grand finale dinner in Beijing.

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  18. Canton China 1996.
    The snake restaurant any snake you want all live including cobra you pick them and they kill them and cook em right up no thanks.
    We were staying at the White Swan hotel and they had smoked duck tongue in a bowl, we laughed for days about all the ducks going around going wack, wack, wack.

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  19. “And don’t you dare eat baluts or skewered monkey meat on a stick that is sold as street food in the Philippines either.” -@geoff the aardvark

    But, in my experience, their chicken on a stick (on the street) was the best in Asia. Are you telling me I might have eating monkey? 🤣

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  26. @F4UCoair. We still laugh. Glad you are still here. We have lost a lot of the old timers.
    Lizard on a stick was another treat, think gecko flattened and salted,they ate them like corn dogs.

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