Pitch for gameshow: "Who's Stench Is It Anyway" in which two intrepid travelers (let's call them Guinness Boy and Trufflehound) go to Asia surviving only on really spicy kimchi, beer and durian. At the end of each day they get a room each while a durian or three is left to, er, brew in a third...
I lived in Tokyo for nine months and mostly love Japanese food. I will defend sushi and sashimi to death and probably only cook my fish back home medium rare. There is NOTHING like a hot bowl of ramen and a cold beer on a cool winter's day. And the aforementioned nashi pears are LUSH. However...
You can get them in SAINOS
Nice tasting but they smell like babies nappies - after the baby has had a Madras. They are banned from lifts in Asia.
I had them in Taipei and agree. Also had snake blood and stinky tofu neither of which I would recommend and octopus beak which I would. The worst...