I am a foodie personified. Food has been at the core of my soul and being for a very long time now. Eating out, cooking, entertaining, smelling, seeing, reading learning; all of the above.
At the top of my list is eating out, which is possibly one of my favorite things to do, with entertaining a close second.
One question I get asked most often is “ Don’t you find that you criticize other people’s food that you eat?” My answer being “ Yes of course, if you’re paying good money for it.”
It’s relative, but expensive doesn’t always mean the best though.
I bet some of the most expensive dishes in the whole of Asia are probably the dishes that alot of people in the west would consider repulsive. Live shrimps are a big thing at the moment called ‘Goong Ten’ in Thai, which translates to ‘dancing shrimps’. In China and Japan, there’s restaurants that serve semi-prepared whole fish, which is still breathing on the plate. A traditional method still popular today is fermented foods.
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