Exotic Dishes Quotes

I love the Mexican chapulines. These little crickets are beautifully roasted with salt and lime.

I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.

New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.

I am wary of unknown street food, available in plenty in places such as Singapore and Malaysia.

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

I am not a stickler for Indian food, but by the third day or so I start looking for something familiar to eat. I have travelled a lot, and I always try out local food.

I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, 'Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.'

Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants.

Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.

If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak.

Have I tried a black pudding? I'll eat anything - I'm not finicky - but that's not to say it takes any courage to eat black puddings because I find them delicious.

North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food.

Calamari isn't too bad. That's what I thought cuttlefish was gonna be that. I've eaten octopus and eel and shark and sea urchin before, and - and those are good.

Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic.

Some of the oddest foods I've encountered are 'American' foods represented internationally.

In London, you can eat your way around the world - Lebanese one night, Indian the next.

Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.

Chinese cuisine has so much diversity, the area it covers is so great and so is the taste.

I used to delight in eating the most exotic meat on the menu: I'd have the snails, camel, squid or anything else that was going.

I like Thai food, Jamaican stews with yam, pumpkin and sweet potato.

I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.