TRUNG HỌC DUY TÂN - PHAN RANG

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Strange food Weird dishes from around the world including bull's testicles, wasp rice crackers and snake blood. Digger wasp rice cracker... otherwise know as Jibachi Senbei. A Japanese fan club for wasps has added the insects to rice crackers, saying the result adds a waspish scent to the traditional fare / Reuters Worm-filled lollypops... displayed during an interview with their producer, Annie Munoz, in Panama City. Ms Munoz who started a project making candies filled with grasshoppers and oat meal worms, hoping to sell them throughout Panama and export to the rest of Central America and China / Reuters Bulls testicles... a cook preparesthe popular "caldo de cardan" soup, made of bull's penis and testicles, in El Alto on the outskirts of La Paz. The soup, considered to be an energy booster and sought after by people suffering from anemia, hangovers and sexual impotency, costs less than $2 per dish and is generally sold in restaurants located near the slaughterhouses of Bolivian cities / Reuters Fried spiders... a vendor sells deep-fried spiders at Skun, Kampong Cham province, east of Phnom Penh. It costs around $2 for 10 deep-fried spiders, which come seasoned with garlic. The fist-sized arachnids are crunchy on the outside and taste like cold, gooey chicken on the inside / Reuters Ducks tongue with celery... one of the dishes of the Diaoyutai State Banquet in Hong Kong / Reuters Blood... a raw blood dish is displayed with cooked entrails at a restaurant in Hanoi. Frozen pudding from fresh duck or pig blood is a popular dish in the Southeast Asian country although duck blood is less consumed following bird flu outbreaks that have killed at least 55 Vietnamese since late 2003. One bowl of raw blood costs VND10,000 ($0.55) / Reuters Haggis... Suburban Hunter St Marys. Haggis in a Paunch from the Scotch Cafe in St Marys. Haggis is sheep's heart, liver and lungs minced with onion, oatmeal and spices / John Fotiadis Deep fried Mars bar... Chef Richard Glennie inspects one of Scotland's most infamous delicacies, the deep-fried Mars bar. Scots consume thousands of the battered bars each week / AP Seahorses on skewers... placed for sale in a shop in Beijing. Fancy a seahorse kebab, deep-fried scorpion, or maybe duck liver paste shaped as a table tennis bat? Beijing is a city known for its culinary diversity / Reuters Fried crickets... a man picks up a fried cricket with his noodles at his farm in Ho Chi Minh. Breeders of crickets say the insects have became "fingers food for beer drinkers" in an age of increasing prosperity in Vietnam compared with the recent past when they might have been food for the hungry or for wartime soldiers surviving in the jungle / Reuters Bird's nest soup... a villager shows a cup-shaped swiftlet's nest after collecting it in a cave near Phangnga Bay, 690 kilometres south of Bangkok, Thailand. The nest is used to make bird's nest soup which, according to devotees, is the "caviar of the East" / AP Guinea pig... an Andean woman cooks "cuy", or guinea pigs, during a guinea pig festival in Huacho, northern Lima, Peru. Cuy is also known as a traditional fried or roasted guinea pig dish which dates back at least fifteen centuries to pre-Incan times / Reuters Rats... a chef cooks field rats at a wild game restaurant in Guangzhou, China. Wild animals are kept, sold and butchered openly in Guangdong / Reuters Snake... a promoter shows a stuffed snake and snake powder from China at the country's International Food and Beverage Exhibition / Reuters Boiled sheep's head... cooks at the Solar de las Cabecitas (House of the Little Heads) restaurant prepare their specialty, boiled sheep's head served on a bed of rice, in La Paz, Bolivia. The dish, a delicacy in the Andean mining city of Oruro where the salty highland pasture gives the lamb its particular flavor, is the specialty of the restaurant / Reuters