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[Paul Voebel]

I dare you to try even one of these truly vomit inducing dishes. Between the fried spiders, baby mice and cobra hearts you are sure to find something that will either cause you to wretch or run screaming.

P.S. Not for faint-hearted.

1 Road Trip Cambodia: Itsy Bitsy Spiders



In Cambodia the habit of eating fried tarantulas began during a period of starvation in history, but nowadays they are considered to be quite a delicacy.

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2 Balut, Phillippines



Balut is a “snack” consisting in a half-fertilized duck or chicken egg, served with a little salt after being boiled. One can find it all over the streets and markets of Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and it is as popular as hotdogs are in the US.

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3 Snake and Scorpion Wine



This unusual type of liquor can be found in Asia mostly and it is made out of a dipping Cobra or scorpion into a rice wine bottle. After a few months of fermentation, the venom is dissolved and the drink is good to serve!

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4 Cobra Heart, Vietnam



In Vietnam one can serve a live cobra’s heart: some eat it raw, along with a cobra blood chaser while others prefer to have it with some rice wine.

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5 Birds Nest Soup, China



The saliva of the birds give this soup its unicity. It is one of the most expensive products consumed by humans, because of the difficulty in getting it.

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6 Baby Mice Wine



Traditional in China and Korea, baby mice wine is considered to be a “health tonic”. The confessed taste: raw gasoline. While still alive, newborn mice are thrown into bottles full of rice wine and left there to ferment.

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