Name: Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
Uploaded: 2025-04-25T03:41:48.000Z
Description: Adventurous eater Andrew Zimmern crisscrosses the globe in search of the world's most exotic foods. From ant eggs in Mexico to slurping on snails in Portugal, he savors the local cuisine.

Adventurous eater Andrew Zimmern crisscrosses the globe in search of the world's most exotic foods. From ant eggs in Mexico to slurping on snails in Portugal, he savors the local cuisine.

WBD - Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern

Andrew Zimmern is off to the island nation of The Philippines -- where he chows down on local favorites like Balut, Crickets, Stuffed Frogs and even live worms!

Philippines

Guinea pigs, piranhas, coconut grubs -- it's all in a day's work for Andrew Zimmern, as he takes a bite out of the South American country of Ecuador.

Ecuador

Andrew Zimmern's gastronomic tour of the world continues with a trip through Spain where he chows down on suckling pig brains, bull testicles and everything in between!

Spain

Andrew is putting the top down as he takes a slow cruise across America's Gulf Coast in hopes of filling up on everything from pig guts to water rodents and raccoons. It's a journey filled with soul and seasoned with Cajun favorites.

Gulf Coast

Haggis, neeps and tatties -- cockles and whelks -- it's either the start of a unique nursery rhyme, or a list of some of the more unusual foods Andrew is about to experience on his journey through the UK!

Come join Andrew down in the islands, mon -- where if it swims, slithers or scampers, it's on the menu in Trinidad and Tobago!

Trinidad and Tobago

Fermented fish heads; jellied moose nose; reindeer pizza; whitefish ice cream.

Alaska

Native dishes of Taiwan including thousand year old eggs, fermented meat and rooster's testicles.

Taiwan

Snake parts, pig's ears, silk worms and cat coffee -- all foods Andrew Zimmern indulges in during his Vietnamese adventure.

Vietnam

Andrew Zimmern decides to head to his hometown for a week to recharge his battery, and needs a reminder of why he got involved in global food foraging to begin with.

New York City

Join Andrew Zimmern as he takes a culinary tour through Morocco where he finds everything from lamb's head to pigeon pie on the menu.

Morocco

Think Mexico is nothing more than tequila shots and wild spring breaks? If so, you're in for a real surprise -- as Andrew Zimmern shows you a Mexico that is a true culinary paradise for the adventurous set.

Mexico

Join Andrew as he relives some of the best bites from the first season. He'll show you scenes you've never seen before and revisit those worth seeing again. You'll also get a sneak preview of what's in store for the second season.

Best Bites

Join Andrew in Beijing, home to one of the world's most vibrant food scenes. From imperial dishes to hot pot street snacks, he'll eat his way through the city where east meets west and traditional food reigns.

Beijing

Join Andrew in Iceland, the land of fire and ice, complete with glaciers, hot springs, geysers and volcanoes. Look beyond the natural wonders and you'll find the food is out of this world too.

Iceland

Get ready to alter all your preconceived ideas of Russian life. Andrew's taking a culinary tour through St. Petersburg, the cultural capital of Russia.

St. Petersburg

Join Andrew on a culinary tour through the place he calls home: Minnesota. From deep-fried bar fare to sophisticated cuisine, you'll see why this northernmost state is far from ordinary.

Minnesota

Llamas, witches and potatoes, oh my! Watch as Andrew Zimmern reveals the secrets of Bolivia on an unforgettable trip of amazing discoveries.

Bolivia

Cow udders, bull testicles and barnacles. It's all part of Andrew's culinary tour of the world's longest, thinnest country. From the city to the country to the sea, you won't believe what Chile has to offer.

Chile

Join Andrew in Guangzhou, the bizarre-food capital of China. He'll find out why this city earns its reputation as a land where anything that swims, crawls or flies is put on a plate.

Guangzhou

From a fierce feast with the beautiful people to a meal that feeds the body and the soul, Andrew Zimmern goes deep into one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world: Delhi.

Delhi

Join Andrew in Phuket, a tropical paradise and a favorite of travelers from around the world. Andrew ventures beyond the stunning beaches to discover the Thais who live in this part of the country.

Phuket, Thailand

Andrew heads to the Italian island of Sicily, where the people think of themselves as Sicilian first and Italian second.

Sicily

Join Andrew in Goa, India's smallest state, known for its tropical attitude and miles of beautiful beaches. A mix of Arab, Portuguese and native influence, this isn't the India you think you know, and the food is equally unique.

Goa, India

Andrew comes to the south Pacific to explore the food and culture of the Samoan Islands.

Samoa

Andrew gets a taste of just why Paris is known as the food capital of the world.

Paris

Andrew arrives in the fast-paced, star-studded city of Los Angeles, where the variety of food varies as much as the diversity of the people who live there.

Los Angeles

Andrew invites fans to try unusual global foods that many people find horrifying. The party guests try baked tarantula, fresh steer blood and chilled lamb kidney - and share how they've learned about different cultures.

Halloween Special

Andrew heads to Hawaii, going beyond the typical tourist destinations to sample authentic Hawaiian cuisine, including poi, octopus, wild boar organs and even Spam.

Hawaii

Andrew explores Ethiopia, an African country famous for its cuisine. But the food he eats is not exactly what you find at your neighborhood Ethiopian restaurant.

Ethiopia

Andrew makes a trip to Maine, where many residents find most of the food they eat literally in their own backyards.

Maine

Andrew invites a group of diverse friends from around the world to celebrate their respective holidays. They share an Italian Christmas stuffed pig's leg and a Thai New Year dish known as snot.

Holiday Special

Andrew travels to Uganda, known as the Pearl of Africa, where the people are friendly and the food is simple.

Uganda

Andrew heads to Japan, where the people have a passion for food and are willing to eat just about anything.

Japan

Andrew explores the connection between food and sex in this special edition of Bizarre Foods.

Sexy Food

If it lives in the sea or in the sand, it's edible, and Andrew is ready to surf it up. From sea slugs in Samoa to mangrove snake in the Philippines, Andrew has tasted some of the strangest creatures ever to come out of the ocean.

Surf It Up

Andrew samples the traditional Tanzanian breakfast, supu. It's a soup made with goat lungs, heart and liver, as well as cow stomach, intestines and tongue.

Tanzania

Andrew travels to Seoul, South Korea, where he feasts on the country's most authentic soups, barbecues and fermented foods.

Seoul, South Korea

Andrew heads into the Australian Outback, where he eats wallaby with some Aborigines, samples crocodile cooked on the barbie and helps thin out the huge population of poisonous cane toads by making them into a meal.

The Outback

Andrew samples the culture and food of the Appalachian Mountains; squirrel hunting in West Virginia; Liver Mush Festival in North Carolina; baked raccoon and possum.

Appalachia

Andrew visits Australia, where he has the opportunity to try some of the most exotic and unique species found only Down Under.

Eastern Australia

Andrew heads to Singapore, where the diversity of food and culture is in abundance.

Singapore

Andrew eats a nitrogen frozen dessert, chocolate bacon and fried alligator in Texas; touring the NASA kitchens for a taste of space.

Texas

Andrew takes to the jungles of Mexico, where he learns to live off the land. Andrew must survive with only a handful of objects and eat only foods he can forage in the woods.

Survival Special

Nicaragua has had its share of hardships, but the people of this nation are resilient and resourceful, and it shows in the food they eat. Andrew visits this tropical island to get a taste of some of its unusual local fare.

Nicaragua

Join Andrew in Puerto Rico as he visits the Pork Highway, tries some strange ice cream and tours a unique San Juan market. He'll also go deep into the heart of the Puerto Rican rainforest and sample some wild treats along the way.

Puerto Rico

Andrew travels beyond the frenetic city of Bangkok to rural northeastern Thailand, a region known as Isan. When it comes to food in Isan, the people know how to make use of everything living and breathing.

Thailand

Cambodians eat some of the most unusual foods on the planet. Andrew visits this developing nation where the food traditions, once based out of severe hardship, are now a source of national pride.

Cambodia

Andrew visits Thailand and samples the cuisine along the way, including some foods he's never even seen until now.

Bangkok

Andrew visits Mongolia, where people live off the harsh land in much the same way their ancestors did in the days of Genghis Khan. Andrew samples the cuisine along the way, including some foods he's never even seen until now.

Mongolia

Andrew uncovers unique food traditions in the great state of Arizona, where the spirit of the Wild West still lives strong today.

Arizona

Andrew's travels around the world have proven that when it comes to trying new foods, kids are some of most adventurous eaters around.

Kids' Special

Join Andrew as he returns to the vibrant and trendsetting city of Tokyo. More unforgettable adventures in food await, from legendary seafood markets to becoming a horumon chef for a day serving up cow and pig intestines.

Tokyo

Andrew explores the peninsula of Baja in Mexico, where the land is harsh but the people and the food are out of this world. From street carts to high-end cuisine in Tijuana, Ensenada and La Paz, Andrew samples the best.

Baja, Mexico

Follow Andrew as he heads to Buenos Aires and explores the meat culture of one of the world's great towns (and tangos away the night with a stunning young starlet).

Buenos Aires

Andrew Zimmern travels to Syria, a country that's home to some of the oldest civilizations on Earth. Syria was a crossroads for trade routes between Asia and Europe. Andrew is in search of foods like sausage made of camel hump.

Syria

Andrew takes to the road to sample the Pennsylvania staples most people never hear about. A Japanese superstar chef cooks up poisonous sexual organs and a family boils up every part of the pig.

Pennsylvania

Andrew visits the mystical city of Venice. From catching critters in the lagoon, blowing Murano glass and indulging in the best cicchetti in the world, he eats his way through the historic city.

Venice

Andrew gets an intimate look at the food and the people that live in one of the most remote corners of the earth, Madagascar. Many of the people still live the way they did hundreds of years ago, hunting and gathering for food.

Madagascar

Chicago is a city of both innovation and tradition. From immigrants cooking up classics to world-renowned chefs creating new concoctions with modern technology, Andrew gets a taste of Chicago's diverse food scene.

Chicago

Andrew travels to Namibia, a country of astonishing beauty, vanishing cultures and truly bizarre foods. He gets a taste of traditional tribal foods including dried mopane worms and wildebeest eyeballs.

Namibia

Andrew takes a trip to San Francisco, a city so well known for its counterculture that even the food can make a political statement. Andrew gets a taste of some alternative food sources that are outside the mainstream.

San Francisco

Andrew meets Greeks passionate about food in Athens and on the remote island of Kalymnos. This is a land where Andrew can taste the history and culture through the food. And he even eats a sea creature he's never seen - until now.

Greece

Andrew gets a dose of turtle jelly soup, snake bile and medicinal bug tea in Hong Kong, the center for Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Hong Kong

In Hungary, it's not just goulash for Andrew. He breakfasts on blood cake with a family of Gypsies, and sinks his teeth into the layers of flavors that make up the food and culture, old and new.

Hungary

Andrew ingests tongue numbing pig brains, spicy rabbit heads and heart attack noodles in Chengdu, China - the epicenter of spicy Sichuan cuisine.

Chengdu

Andrew fuels up on cobra blood for an extra kick of energy and ceremonially feasts on buffalo entrails during a traditional Indonesian funeral.

Bizarre Indonesia

Andrew visits the planet's hot zones, the band surrounding the equator known as the tropics. He focuses his exploration on the tropical locations closest to home: the Caribbean and the Americas.

Taste of the Tropics

Giant porcupine and jewel beetles are scavenged for the arid Kalahari desert. Outside Johannesburg, Andrew sinks his teeth into zebra.

Kalahari

Andrew comes back to the Big Apple, the place where he got his start in the restaurant business. Does he have the chops to keep up with busy workers churning out food in the city that never sleeps?

NYC: Will Work for Food

Andrew's taking a food tour around the world without ever leaving our nation's capitol. He's making stops at some of the foreign embassies in Washington, D.C., to get a taste of how food can open the doors to diplomacy.

Embassy Row

Andrew ventures to Finland, where he dines on delectable delights including blood pudding, reindeer tartare, pan-fried brown bear rump and even birch tree bark.

Finland

Rio de Janeiro may be one of the world's sexiest cities, but it's not the sunny beaches or the samba-dancing that are the attraction for Andrew: it's the city's diverse food culture.

Rio de Janeiro

Venture with Andrew into the remote rainforest of Suriname to treat his taste buds with a stink pig called a pingo and a rodentlike rabbit known as a coconi.

Suriname

Andrew Zimmern takes a culinary tour through Morocco, where he finds everything from lamb's head to pigeon pie on the menu.

Fez, Morocco

Andrew is back for another exotic food adventure, this time in Sardinia. He gives us a taste of what the locals eat.

Sardinia

Andrew heads up north for a taste of the joie de vivre in the multicultural city of Montreal.

Montreal

Andrew experiences the true flavor of Jamaica as he digs into unique dishes that combine islands flavors with African traditions.

Jamaica

Andrew heads to Mexico City. He eats stewed pig knuckles in one of the city's most notorious barrios, feasts on worms and ant eggs in the desert outside the metropolis, and travels though ancient canals to taste fish egg tamales.

Mexico City: Corn Smut & Ants

Andrew heads to the coast in Lisbon, Portugal. He braves crashing surf to harvest barnacles from the rocky shore, feasts on mounds of mollusks at huge snail festival, and learns the secret to making the world's best canned fish.

Lisbon: Snails and Sardines

In Ireland, Andrew eats his way from Cork to Dublin. He tries the ultimate smoked salmon, dines on pigeon with bog oak, and eats one of his all-time most bizarre foods: 3 thousand-year-old butter that was found buried in a bog.

Ireland: Ancient Bog Butter

Andrew finds out what's cookin' in Brooklyn. He fishes for sea robin to grill dockside in Sheepshead Bay, tries kombucha bacteria pancakes in a defunct pharmaceutical warehouse, and eats a spleen sandwich in an Italian Focacceria.

Brooklyn

Andrew explores the easternmost point of North America, St. John's, Newfoundland. He fishes for cod to fry up the cheeks and tongues, makes moose pie in a family grocery, and dines on chicken fried seal flipper with a local chef.

Newfoundland

Andrew heads to the Faroe Islands, a mysterious Nordic wonderland. He dives frigid waters for giant horse mussels, feasts on a fermented sheep's head and a blood-filled sheep's stomach, and eats seagulls scooped from the ocean.

Faroe Islands: Spoiled Sheep

Andrew pulls back the curtain on the L.A. food scene. He eats fried fish fins at a high-tech fish processor, rescues a hive and its honey from a colony of Africanized bees, and learns the secret to the country's hottest hot sauce.

Spleen Soup and Sriracha

Andrew heads to Hawaii's Big Island, far from the tourist filled beaches. He pulls huge fresh water prawns out of hidden streams, harvests abalone from an aquaculture farm, and feasts on tuna eyeballs at the local grocery store.

Eyeballs and Abalone

Andrew heads to Kazakhstan, the heart of Central Asia. He hunts for rabbits with a golden eagle, suffers a blow while milking a horse and feasts on everything from sheep brains to fermented camel's milk to smoked horse sausage.

Kazakhstan

Andrew hits the food mecca of Taipei, Taiwan. He faces stinky tofu in a mountainside factory, learns the secret to turning eggs into hard-as-iron street food and masters pulling the longest and strongest noodles.

Taipei

Andrew heads to Rome for tastes that stand the test of time. He feasts on lamb brains and veal intestine in the shadow of an ancient dump, eats cheese aged in millennia-old caves and nets eel with Rome's last eel fisherman.

Rome

Andrew heads to gleaming and gritty Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He learns the secrets to milking camels, fermenting fish in the desert sun, making musical organ meat mush and finding manna from heaven at the spice market.

Dubai

Andrew heads to Panama City, one of the world's crossroads. He feasts on chicken foot souse and iguana meat and eggs, hits the street for beef lung and aphrodisiac smoothies and noshes on Chinese-Panamanian Kosher cheese.

Panama

Andrew travels to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hitting the city streets at night, he feasts on sucking snails and duck tongues. Then, on the outskirts of town, he hunts for rice field rats and gets a taste of farm-raised porcupine.

Ho Chi Minh City

Andrew goes off the grid to Iquitos, Peru, in the heart of the Amazon. He wrestles paiche fish, hits local markets for grilled coconut grubs and smoked jungle rodents and forages for giant biting ants with a tribal shaman.

Peruvian Amazon

Andrew heads to San Antonio, where a generation raised on Tex-Mex is redefining its signature Southern style and creating "Tex-Next." On ranches and in railcars, Andrew eats everything from calves' balls to crickets and quail.

San Antonio

Andrew visits Guatemala, where ancient flavors are still alive in the food today. From fresh bull testicle ceviche at the market to a Sunday dinner with possum as the main dish, Andrew tastes rich heritage in every bite.

Guatemala

Andrew heads to Croatia, an Eastern European kingdom straight out of a storybook. An up-and-coming tourist hotspot, Andrew still finds ancient tastes from roasted dormice and giant offal kebabs to baked rooster and grilled frog.

Croatia's Dalmatian Coast

Andrew goes to one of the world's culinary capitals, Paris, France. He feasts on mushrooms harvested in underground caves, brines ham delivered to the presidential palace and learns the dying art of aging artisanal French cheese.

Paris Reborn: Cow Heads, Caves

Andrew travels to Philadelphia, a city built on doing things their way, especially when it comes to food! From cheesesteak and shad cake to turkey neck and pig liver, Andrew discovers the secret to a good bite is Philly pride.

Philadelphia

Andrew travels south to Oaxaca, Mexico, for tastes and traditions thousands of generations old. From winged ants and grilled intestines to grasshoppers and dried beef hearts, Andrew eats a path through Mexico's culinary capital.

Oaxaca

Andrew travels to Amsterdam for unique reinventions of traditional Dutch recipes. From invasive goose krokets and insect-filled nuggets to smoked local eel and hollow pig head, Andrew tastes the city's nonconformity in each bite!

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern

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