Iron Chef owns you.
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true, but iron chef is an hour's worth of entertainment, while with pr0n i usually last 3 minutes at most...
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Originally posted by: icejunkie
true, but iron chef is an hour's worth of entertainment, while with pr0n i usually last 3 minutes at most...
Sorry to hear that. But agreed, one hour beats 3 minutes...(no pun intended).
I was watching iron cheif last night and the themse ingredient was swallows nest or birds nest. I was wondering what this actually is and all i could find from google is that swallows nest is made from the nest of a swiftlet, a type of swallow. Does anyone know what the nest is actually made of? The swallows nest didnt look like any nest I have ever seen or heard of which is usually made from scraps of bark, twigs, straw, etc. My best guess is that the birds regurgitate or makes these nests like a spider would spin a web?
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Thats thats the most expesnive spit I have ever seen . 26k for for a couple of bowls of this stuff
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From wikipedia:
"One fact that these birds (only a few species within the genus) are possibly more renowned for, is the use of their nests for making bird's nest soup in Chinese cuisine. During the breeding season, all the species salivary glands expand to produce the special sticky saliva for binding twigs and other detritus together for building the nest, which is a shallow cup stuck to the cave wall. Only a few species are suitable, and it is those species whose nests are made purely or almost purely of saliva that are harvested and most prized. The harvesting of the nests (often at some risk to the collector) from tall bamboo scaffolding often reaching high up the cave walls, sometimes hundreds of feet high and have been used for centuries (with obvious repairs) to reach the nests. There is some concern that over harvesting is causing several species to become scarcer. Bird nest merchants in the southeast Asia (including Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand etc.) have started to raise and breed the swiftlets in house-like structures. They build the shelters to attract wild swiftlets to build nests in them. The wrong kind of nests are then destroyed along with the eggs inside. Over time, the selection process only leaves behind a colony of swiftlets that produce the right kind of nest for the trade. "House nests" are priced much lower than the "cave nests" due to the level of risks involved in the harvesting process."
"One fact that these birds (only a few species within the genus) are possibly more renowned for, is the use of their nests for making bird's nest soup in Chinese cuisine. During the breeding season, all the species salivary glands expand to produce the special sticky saliva for binding twigs and other detritus together for building the nest, which is a shallow cup stuck to the cave wall. Only a few species are suitable, and it is those species whose nests are made purely or almost purely of saliva that are harvested and most prized. The harvesting of the nests (often at some risk to the collector) from tall bamboo scaffolding often reaching high up the cave walls, sometimes hundreds of feet high and have been used for centuries (with obvious repairs) to reach the nests. There is some concern that over harvesting is causing several species to become scarcer. Bird nest merchants in the southeast Asia (including Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand etc.) have started to raise and breed the swiftlets in house-like structures. They build the shelters to attract wild swiftlets to build nests in them. The wrong kind of nests are then destroyed along with the eggs inside. Over time, the selection process only leaves behind a colony of swiftlets that produce the right kind of nest for the trade. "House nests" are priced much lower than the "cave nests" due to the level of risks involved in the harvesting process."
that's because they are an endangered species from over-harvesting and now is highly regulated, thus a delicacy
you might want to check out foie gras
you might want to check out foie gras
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