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Then, I'm your man. I'll try to point you in the right direction.
If you haven't booked hotels yet, let me know a budget (going large or not) and I can point you to places that don't use booking.com etc.
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@gt12 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Then, I'm your man. I'll try to point you in the right direction.
If you haven't booked hotels yet, let me know a budget (going large or not) and I can point you to places that don't use booking.com etc.
no we are struggling for accomodation!! seems pretty hard to find for the four of us.
Budget isn't a huge issue, but we're not made of money
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there is a Simpsons episode for everything!
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
there is a Simpsons episode for everything!
Ha !!! I was thinking of this episode and someone has saved me the time and posted it.
God bless you and your wonderful members fern.....
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@mariner4life said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
BTW. Is fugu that puffer fish that'll really fuck jo your day if it's prepared wrong?
poison poison poison tasty fish!
@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
there is a Simpsons episode for everything!
Mariner got in first with his simpsons reference
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@hooroo said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I love LOVE bluff Oysters and honestly thought there could be no better oyster on the planet! Then in June I was in Borrough Market in London and had fresh "Irish" oysters shucked at point of sale and I think I have a new favourite. I wish I could have had a freshly shucked Bluffie at the same time to confirm.
It was amazing
I had some at the Borough market a couple of months ago. Ate some "local" oysters from the stall near the front entrance which were oval shaped like the bluff oyster (Cornish?). Tried some French ones at a stall further in, some were super salty (rock), others were also similar to a bluff oyster. The deep water ones were the goods
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@mariner4life said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
oh shit i really want to try Whale
I worked with an old guy that tried it , said it was pretty average and stunk the house out . Also full of Mercury these days.
I'm told even the Japs don't like it. These days it is a face thing. I went to a restaurant in Shinjuku that sold whale sashimi, horse sushi too. I didn't partake but the various preparations of fish roe were unexpectedly nice. My mate ate horse sushi in Tokyo and said it was beautiful
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@mariner4life Tokyo is like foodie Disneyland. Cold fresh soba (my personal favourite), yakitori from chicken pork eel or any other animal you can find, pork katsu cutlet or the more luxurious wagyu crumbed cutlet (how you deep fry a crumbed steak perfect medium rare I'll never know), udon, sushi, I defy you to have a shit time. High end or low end and everything in the middle, all the stuff we ate was top notch. They are crazy about coffee too so if you like you should have a crack. You bastards, now I'm really hungry!!!
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Damn, I take a break from the Fern for a few hours and the (new) seafood thread powers on and then eventually becomes an all food thread.
Rarotongan Ika mata is an awesome seafood dish too (although some resort restaurants on the island tend to just throw stuff in that only really approximates real Ika mata).
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mariner4life Tokyo is like foodie Disneyland. Cold fresh soba (my personal favourite), yakitori from chicken pork eel or any other animal you can find, pork katsu cutlet or the more luxurious wagyu crumbed cutlet (how you deep fry a crumbed steak perfect medium rare I'll never know), udon, sushi, I defy you to have a shit time. High end or low end and everything in the middle, all the stuff we ate was top notch. They are crazy about coffee too so if you like you should have a crack. You bastards, now I'm really hungry!!!
Oh and they love to drink beer, so you will be awash in Asahi!!
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I've had Irish oysters in Ireland and still prefer Bluff but then I flew to Bluff from Akl for the day just to eat oysters.
Agree about paua done well it's very good. Havent been able to try rotten cray and to me that is illogical.
Pretty much the only thing from the sea I can't abide is sea cucumber although I haven't had whale. I have had seal and it wasn't great.
I don't have an issue with eating different foods dog was OK insects are / can be good - Cobra blood shooters are just an excuse to brag.
Croc is OK but a bit bland - like snake. Roo ostrich all the darker meats are good. Balut is actually quite nice although very rich. Heard mixed reports on guinea pig sparrows a lot of effort from not much return
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@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I've had Irish oysters in Ireland and still prefer Bluff but then I flew to Bluff from Akl for the day just to eat oysters.
Agree about paua done well it's very good. Havent been able to try rotten cray and to me that is illogical.
Pretty much the only thing from the sea I can't abide is sea cucumber although I haven't had whale. I have had seal and it wasn't great.
I don't have an issue with eating different foods dog was OK insects are / can be good - Cobra blood shooters are just an excuse to brag.
Croc is OK but a bit bland - like snake. Roo ostrich all the darker meats are good. Balut is actually quite nice although very rich. Heard mixed reports on guinea pig sparrows a lot of effort from not much return
Welcome to the fern Bear Grylls. I look forward to your future posts.
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@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I've had Irish oysters in Ireland and still prefer Bluff but then I flew to Bluff from Akl for the day just to eat oysters.
Agree about paua done well it's very good. Havent been able to try rotten cray and to me that is illogical.
Pretty much the only thing from the sea I can't abide is sea cucumber although I haven't had whale. I have had seal and it wasn't great.
I don't have an issue with eating different foods dog was OK insects are / can be good - Cobra blood shooters are just an excuse to brag.
Croc is OK but a bit bland - like snake. Roo ostrich all the darker meats are good. Balut is actually quite nice although very rich. Heard mixed reports on guinea pig sparrows a lot of effort from not much return
Welcome to the fern Bear Grylls. I look forward to your future posts.
Yeah nah, you know he's always dying for an excuse to drink his own urine.
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@dogmeat I watched a food programme and they were in Alaska and some local thing was that they put their fish carcasses into a cloth sack, at low tide go and bury it in the sand, leave it for a week then return for it...yummo 🤔
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@dogmeat I watched a food programme and they were in Alaska and some local thing was that they put their fish carcasses into a cloth sack, at low tide go and bury it in the sand, leave it for a week then return for it...yummo 🤔
Rotten Greenland shark , I think they leave it in the ground for quite a while to get the ammonia out .
My old man has a Dutch mate we used to give rabbits we shot, he used to bury them for a couple of days . It’s supposed to break down the muscles and make them tender .
My old man went around to drop one off to the guy and he wasn’t home so he pegged it in their washing line as a joke for them to find later that day. They didn’t think it was very funny when they came home a week later to find its maggoty flyblown corpse stinking out their back yard. -
@jegga nah wasn't shark on the episode I watched but was probably longer...the foodie doing the show wasn't a fan though.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga nah wasn't shark on the episode I watched but was probably longer...the foodie doing the show wasn't a fan though.
I wonder what it was then ? The shark dish is pretty famous and sounds disgusting.
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@jegga not sure what fish (probably good sized Kahawai size) just knew it wasn't a shark - they had taken the main meat off the fish and then put the carcass in the sack.
The dude on the show loved food and gushed over pretty much everything except that and some local delicacy in Philippines
