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Snails: yay or nay? "The only snails I've seen in New Zealand are canned," says pippimac. "When they're on the menu, there's always someting I like the sound of better than the generic snails-butter-garlic-parsley. So if they were fresh and interesting, I'd be really keen to eat them." "I'm with you on being hesitant with canned ones," says sunshine842. "My experience has been that they're pretty rubbery and not very flavorful. Fresh or fresh-frozen are an entirely different thing, however."
"Let's be honest, you could put a lot of disgusting things in the garlic butter that usually accompanies escargot and it would taste good," says MyNameIsTerry. "Having said that, I like escargot." BobB says, "I like, not love, classic escargot. What I love is a snail dish that's a common bar snack in the Lisbon area of Portugal. They take little garden snails, only 1 or 2 cm in diameter, and cook them in a seasoned, well-salted broth. You get a bowlful of them accompanied by a wine cork with some common pins stuck into it—the pins are used to extract the snails from their shells. Delicious!"
And a tip from hill food: "If faced with canned, blanch them briefly in white wine and prepare away as normal. It's not perfect and won't compare to fresh, but it does a great deal to revive them."
Try snails in Vietnam (Ốc in Vietnamese). You'll be amazed at how many kinds of snails and preparation techniques there are.
I say ICK! Let's face it, it's no different from eating a slug. We tried the snail bar snack BobB mentioned in a little restaurant in Cascais, a coastal town just outside of Lisbon, I tried one and it tasted like a salty rubber band, but the most horrible part was one was still alive and moving on the plate!!! Never again! It's on Youtube...try searching under "Ben gets a surprise while eating...+READ
I say ICK! Let's face it, it's no different from eating a slug. We tried the snail bar snack BobB mentioned in a little restaurant in Cascais, a coastal town just outside of Lisbon, I tried one and it tasted like a salty rubber band, but the most horrible part was one was still alive and moving on the plate!!! Never again! It's on Youtube...try searching under "Ben gets a surprise while eating snails"-COLLAPSE
What ick factor?
I love snails, and surprisingly enough the best snail experience I had was buying them from a street vendor in Malaysia. The snails were alive when i bought them, crawling around in a little aquarium filled with what looked like cornmeal.
It was something like a 5 USD for about 20 snails. They were removed from their shells and stirfried in whatever sauce you wanted. I chose their "French"...+READ
I love snails, and surprisingly enough the best snail experience I had was buying them from a street vendor in Malaysia. The snails were alive when i bought them, crawling around in a little aquarium filled with what looked like cornmeal.
It was something like a 5 USD for about 20 snails. They were removed from their shells and stirfried in whatever sauce you wanted. I chose their "French" style, which is basically garlic and butter, and I think they used a little Shaoxing wine. You also had a choice of other styles, kam hiong ( dried chillies, curry leaves, szechuan pepper) and whatever other style they have.
It came plated with all the shells on the edge of the plate surrounding the snails in all their buttery goodness. Best 5 bucks spend ever.-COLLAPSE