ah, travel and food- my two favourites! I have sampled a few strange culinary items over the years, from char-grilled rat in Vietnam to savoury grasshoppers sprinkled on salad in Mexico to moose stew in Alaska, skewered chicken hearts in Brazil and a whopping bowl of seafood stew in Chile that looked like a bowl of aliens!

Best food memory has got to be an absolutely wonderful potato curry in Siam Reap in Cambodia! Has to be the best curry I've ever eaten!
Worst by far was being offered deep fried tarantula in Cambodia, even beat the road kill look alike Guinea Pig in Peru!!

On the way to my uncle's holiday home in Santa Fe, Colombia we stopped off at a "restaurant" at the top of a very winding and terrifying road for a snack. The only thing they served was called "el tippico" and was a gigantic plate of beans and meat. Lots of beans, lots of meat. It was great, although the car journey afterwards wasn't - five people with bellyfulls of beans isn't a good plan, trust me...

I remember going on holiday when i was younger with my Grandparents and my grandad ordered a seafood pizza with whole baby squids on it... at 6 years old it was definately the strangest thing i had ever eaten!

I spent a day diving off Koh Tao, Thailand. Saw some amazing fish, sea snakes and sharks! I saw a Leopard Shark and a Black Tip Reef Shark.
That evening I ate them! Very nice it was too!

Best food memory is not so much the taste, but the experience... During my first ever meal in China we ordered fish. Little did we know that almost all Chinese restaurants have a resident fish tank to make sure everything's fresh. Now imagine our bewildered, 18-year-old faces when a waiter came to our table with a very large net containing a still flapping fish for our approval. Didn't really know what to do with ourselves! Luckily the fish was swiftly dispatched to the kitchen for battering and very tasty it was too!