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Hi Ellie, if you get to Marrakech try the steamed snails from a stall in Djemaa el Fna square. You get hustled onto a vacant stool and a bowl of snails (much smaller than the ones you get in the UK) in their shells in a spicy soup placed before you, with a toothpick to dig them out and eat with, and then drink the soup straight from the bowl, all for 10 dirham, (a few pence). Delicious!!
I'd also recommend a pastilla, a Morroccan speciality, traditionally made from pigeon but usually now from chicken, with sweet spices like cinnamon, wrapped in filo pastry and sprinkled with icing sugar. Also yum!! Caroline

Hi Berlie and Carl,
Berlie, the snails in spicy soup sound very interesting. I am off to Morocco in early March, so will try them out then for sure.
Carl, the 2" to 3" long maggots sound a little too risque for me but will put the stir fried bees on my list of things to try.

I am planning a trip later in the year, spending a few months in India. Has anyone got any suggestions of food that I 'must' try?

Hi Dave,
I kinda like your game......will give it a go on my next trip!
Ellie

I was in Dublin for one day last week and was disappointed as I didn't manage to find a traditional pub selling traditional grub! The traditional pub bit was easy, the food was more difficult. We are back there for 4 nights this week as part of the Holiday World Travel Show, so I will be looking out for a good pint of the black stuff with a few traditional Irish dishes. I will drop a post on my return.

Some of my Favourite foods are:
A good ceviche from Peru, raw seafood marinated in lime juice (The citric acid cooks it)
Sea banacles from the south of Chile, BBQ'd
Pomelo and Pork salad in Thailand.
Pigs ear salad in Burma (very chewy)
Burmese onion caramelized duck.

Hi Danny. So did you have your Lamb Tagine whilst trekking? Any other exciting food stories whilst on your trip? Ellie

Rich, I have to agree with you about olives, I hated them for years but it's definitely the more you eat them the more you like them, same goes for black ones too, so I think they ARE an acquired taste. Just back from a weekend in Barcelona and had grilled razor shell clams ('navelles' I think) for the first time AND octopus in a 'pulperia' and tapas bar (Bar Celta La Pulperia). Razor clams smelt like wet dog and at first mouthful tasted like wet dog, but soon got used to it as we worked our way down through the pile of shells and ended up really liking them. Octopus was cut up with scissors into chunks/slices and had olive oil and then hot paprika sprinkled over it. It was yum, if a bit fatty in texture around the suckers! :)