Rotten shark meat and Iceland's quirky dishes

In addition to rotten fermented shark meat, there are pickled sheep testicles, sheep's head, live whale meat are traditional dishes of Icelanders in general and players in particular.

Iceland's underdog general is England who prefers easy-to-eat and familiar names. Wayne Rooney's favorite dish is spaghetti Bolognese, and Jamie Vardy likes oily fish and chips. Daniel Sturridge likes cheese toast, or elegant salads with grilled bass.

Iceland players are different, they often eat with rich foods that print muscle to help them cope with the cold climate in their homeland. If you hear some of Iceland's dish names, you may have to shake your head and tongue. And just witness or brave rather than taste, not many people will vomit at the table.

A dish of fermented shark meat smelling ammonia.

For example, rotten shark meat, for example. The traditional name of this dish is hakarl and it has the smell . of ammonia. Raw materials for making hakarl are Greenland shark meat. The meat of this species is very poisonous so it has to boil many times, dry or ferment for about 6 to 12 weeks. And Icelanders often choose the third way of processing, ie . buried underground for poison to decompose into ammonia. After the standard time, they dug up and dried in the sun for a few more weeks before eating.

Other processing methods are worth noting . hanging in the storehouse for meat to wash out. People cut into blocks, hanging in the house, rotting flesh will release toxic uric acid in the skin. This processing must avoid sunlight and has a term of 2 to 4 months. The wind will blow away the unpleasant scent and make the outside layer brown. The skin is removed and the white flesh is removed.

London's top chef, Dan Doherty, took the courage to try rotten shark meat. Doherty said: "I ate it in Iceland. The dish was served on the dining table in the form of a small block in a jar. I opened the jar and the ammonia smell was so strong that it burned my nose." He said it was the most horrible dish he ever tasted.

Sheep head.

Iceland also has some dishes that can make us "shudder" at first sight. That is the sheep head . The sheep's head will be split in half, then scorched and then boiled. This is the most popular traditional dish in Iceland . Sheep head is not a bad dish because the first part is a good portion of meat. The chefs here will keep everything from tongue to eye to meet different tastes of diners. Even so, many people feel scared and uncomfortable when they see the sheep's head on the plate.

Pickled sheep testicles.

There is also the Sursadir Hrutspungar dish which is the soaked sheep testicle . Sheep testicles are lumped, boiled and preserved in lactic acid. It is also necessary to mention fish guts, codfish blades and raw whale meat that are cooked in the same way beef is known as carpaccio (Italy) and the heart of pounding seabirds is the favorite of many players. Iceland.