Alright I am always wanting to try just about any food! And where better to start but the good ole U.S.A. at the international market. So I got a couple snacks: Squid jerky, Roasted crabs (about the size of half dollars) and some anchovies dried with sesame seeds. Liked the crabs, and everything else required multiple bites to get accustom to. Now on to supper which I have done before, but threw in a couple twists. Grilled pork chop, with a pear balsamic vinegar sauce (love this). Then grilled portabella shrooms stuffed with sundried tomato's, marinated artichoke and some melted Gouda cheese (The Kicker: a quail egg poached in wine topping it, not bad at all). More of an appetizer: Toasted rosemary olive oil bread and topping it with Escargot sautéed in butter, garlic and wine (good but a bit "chewy", first time I have ever cooked these but have had them before). The Wife and I had a pinot grigio and the kid had a Japanese soda called Ramune (good stuff: have to break the glass marble seal to drink then it rolls around in the neck while drinking, it cannot come out!) O.K. Andrew Zimmerman I feel for you yet I kept eating! His Kryptonite, Durian fruit! Not fresh thank anything in this world!!! but just the frozen custard like meat. I didn't think the custard would smell AND taste like really nasty onions/sweaty socks from a 9 year old in rotten sneakers but it does. Well let me clarify, taken in SMALL (bean sized portions) after getting past the first 5 bites (yea a glutton for punishment) its sweet and creamy (not sweat, well maybe) but I could eat it and liked it when the initial flavors went away. Well on to the pics I guess!

portabella w/out quail egg
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Pork chops/cutlets w/out pear/vinegar sauce
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Escargot with toasted bread!
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Poached Quail egg on shroom and pear sauce on top of chop!
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Desert!
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I need someone to do some photo shop magic quick!! I just noticed that right under the words frozen fresh durian it says "Morn Thong" If you have eatin' this "fruit" then you might agree it could be a "morn thong" Like a 10 day fermented thong with an egg in salty brine :-) need a thong instead of durian fruit! nevermind it would only work with a very few people, that see it the way I do!
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Is that a Sea Urchin, Coy? :-)
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That ain't' fishy by no means Brother! I have had Urchin with no problemo's, O' yea this is way different! Dried dung Beatles may be a treat, but what the heck I will eat both (had one "Durian", only seen the other on TV!)
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O' yea upper left corner of pic tells the brand (of durian fruit), but I think it had other parts added from a Vegas Hooker! I am married and can only assume.
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Here you go Coy :-)

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That looks about like the "thong" I would conjure up in my nightmares, not more but too much! A prickly outer portion with a nasty looking creme (french spelling) type of sweat (OOOPP's I mean sweet) portion some where separated by a tough (chemical withstanding) slender center piece that rides all the way up!
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Perhaps The scene in the movie "Little Nicky"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YssMT0qXYOw
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Nicely done! Looks delicious!
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OMG I hate Durian it smells of rotten corpse.....lol
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