yoo hoo... anyone out there? hehehe
sorry for the long 'no-I'm-in-no-mood-of-trying-to-update-my-blog' period. It's been tough. Yup, no doubt about that.
Anyway cut the long story short, I didn't work out with my previous job (yes my boss was a total... well that's another story), but now I've began a new job which I enjoy much more (and relatively good pay) and my mum is starting to work as well so gradually we're back on track... I think?
So... what have I missed out these days? Any sweet gossips from my good ol' Perth town? I know that Julian is in Brisbane but how about everyone else? oh! Honey is visiting Tokyo in August, so that would be exciting :)
Since I don't have much exciting stuff to talk about, lets talk about kiviak (or giviak) shall we? :D
So who DOES know of a thing called kiviak? I'm guessing almost none. Well I didn't know about it until last year or so.
Hint 1: It's a traditional food of the Inuits.
Hint 2: It's got to do with seals.
ok, I will introduce you the recipe of this delicacy.
Ingredients are simple. All you need is a seal and some couple of sea birds.
Step 1: Cut open the seal and take out everything (yes, take out all the internal organs)
Step 2: Shove in the sea birds inside the seal, and no you don't pluck the feather or do anything with the bird. Leave the bird just the way it is, and put them inside the seal. That's all you need to do.
Step 3: Sew the seal up and make sure you put some seal oil on the the sewed area to prevent flies to lay eggs (aka. maggots. ewww).
Step 4: Bury the seal under the ground. Leave it there to ferment from few month to couple of years.
The cooking part is complete!
Now to the "how to eat"
Dig out the seal, and cut the seal open. Oh, and the great thing about kiviak is that you don't need no plate, fork, knife or spoon to eat this thing.
All you have to do is get rid of the tail feathers, and put your mouth to the bird's anus and suck. Due to the fermentation, the bird's internal organs, meat and everything has sort of liquified, so you can suck all in like a... jello.
The closest taste would be blue cheese or yogurt. Apparently it tastes really good but stinks like hell. probably as bad as Surstromming (Swedish delicacy consisting of fermented Baltic herring. you know the one which is in a can but it's swelled up coz of the fermented gas inside?)
Anyone interested? :D
Check out this anime to watch the eating scene (no it's not a horror anime lol). Watch especially the 8:10 part.
Online Videos by Veoh.com
4 comments:
Hi Nami...that was gross...
about visiting it might get cancelled...long story...
I just Yakked a little.
Sounds like what the Eskimos do.
They get a whale and kill it. But a whale is huge so they can't eat all of it at once, so they dig a big hole in the ice and cut the meat into cubes... Like big 30kilo cubes... then they bury it. then during the winter they can dig it up and cook it. They always dig up the oldest meat first. Sometimes its up to 3 years old !!!!
EWWWWW.
Not as bad as sloppy seagull but pretty grosse.
Keep blogging!
I want to know all about what's going on over there!
OMG just watched the video!
You suck its rotten intestines out its ass then eat it? Man that is seriously the most disgusting thing i have ever heard of people eating.
Honey>
I know, it's fantastically gross isn't it? :p
Oh... you may not coming to Tokyo? booo...
well there's always next time I guess? ;)
David>
NO Dave, it's not rotten intestine and flesh.
It's FERMENTED.
Different.
hehehe
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