Something Bizarre to eat in New York City?

Question

I live 5 minutes away from the city, and everytime I go, I get pizza.

Me and my sister are going today, and we want to find a place to eat, that's like something you would see on Bizarre Food's.

Help?

Answer 1

Well, since you're looking for something like you'd see on Bizarre Foods, how about checking out some of the spots Andrew Zimmern visited on his NYC episode? I happen to have that episode TIVOed, so I just watched it again and took notes. Here are the places he visited and what he had:

Carnegie Deli (Midtown)- Tongue sandwich, Gefilte fish and chopped liver.

Jewel Bako (East Village)- Barracuda seared with a blowtorch, Geoduck clam, Octopus slices that plump up when the chef slams them down and flavored in Yuzu juice and live lobster.

Chinatown- Ate the durian fruit at a fruit stand, which is one of the only foods that Andrew couldn't handle (smells like stinky feet).

Congee Bowery Restaurant (Chinatown)- Jellyfish salad (One of Andrew's favorite foods in the world), goose intestine in black bean sauce, sea cucumbers and duckfeet, and frog congee.

Brooklyn- (Red Hook)-  The Red Hook Ballfields have been host to vendors selling South and Central American home cooking for almost 40 years. Zimmern and Bourdaine were absolutely loving the roasted pork huarache, fresh ceviche made with raw seafood, shrimp, octopus and squid and cheese and meat papusas.

M & I International Foods -Brooklyn (Brighton Beach)-  Salted salmon roe, salo (non-rendered pork fat served raw [smoked, smeared with garlic or served plain]) and Russian salami served with hot mustard.

Answer 2

Chinatown - you can get lots of "bizarre" foods

Amazing 66 at 66 Bayard Street (Canal) serves frog porridge, pork intestine with pickled cabbage, beef belly casserole,

Congee at 98 Bowery (Grand) has snail with pig's liver, liver and sliced fish porridge, pork stomach porridge,

Fu Wong at 100 Bowery (Grand) has pig's blood congee

Nice Green Bo on Bayard and Canal has duck web with celery, crispy eel, wine chicken feet, fish head casserole, fish belly casserole

Shanghai Garden on  14 Elizabeth Street (Bayard)

serves duck web with jellyfish, salt baked duck tongue, sea cucumber with shrimp roe,

Toloache, a Mexican restaurant on West 50th and Broadway serves a taco filled with dried grasshoppers

http://www.toloachenyc.com/enter.html

Answer 3

WD-50 is really really odd.. Just read this article , and you'll understand.  The weirdness comes more from the method of preparation, not so much the ingredients though..

http://nymag.com/nymetro/bony/food/2005/...

http://events.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/din...

I would also just wander around Chinatown and look in the windows!! You'll find all sorts of stuff like mutant chicken feet and nuclear yolks, frogs and scorpions.  ..

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Also check out this guys blog

http://www.thegluttonist.com/welcome/wei...

he is a New Yorker who reports on all the weird food around the city..

Answer 4

cavieare (fish eggs) or liver and onions

Answer 5

they have ice cream that is spinach flavored and stuff like that.