Travel off the beaten track and experience

When we conjure up thoughts about fruit, pictures like deep red strawberries, dripping-from-your-lips watermelon, and crisp apples come to mind. Yeah, that kind of stuff is synonymous with cooling off on hot summer season days — in some parts of the planet. In other individuals, nicely, let’s just say we’ve all heard of the shenanigans that generally hits the plates and markets of Asia. We’re speaking deep-fried tarantulas, reside octopus, you name it, folks consume it. They are not afraid of expanding their taste horizons as substantially we are in the Western globe. Take Dragonfruit for example. The magenta, scaly, spiky skin appears like it really should be guarding a princess locked in the tallest tower of a castle. It would be simple to pass by that half-lizard hunting issue. If you do, however, you will not get to bite into the sweetness of the vibrant white flesh, polka-dotted with tiny black seeds. It resembles the meat of the kiwi fruit — effectively, that is, a fire breathi...

Grab the kids and gather ’round the computer. TheExpeditioner.com requires a look at some of the strangest dishes in Asia. By Justin Calderon Whilst one of the highlights of travel is the opportunity to sample dishes and flavors that you have by no means had prior to, it is inevitable that you are going to run into some thing that, well, regardless of your open mind and adventurous spirit, still causes you to pause and assume, “Do I truly want to eat this?” This occurs maybe nowhere more so than in Asia, exactly where those of us from the West are taken aback when all of a sudden confronted with the prospect of snacking on fried insects or the delicate parts of male animals. Even so, in the interest of cultural relativism, I can not support to consider that specific items discovered in our personal rapid-food restaurants and consumed every single day in the West most likely (and possibly rightly so) elicit the same reaction in several components of the globe as our personal when we...