Rooster Testicles
Confession: Sometimes even I have trouble stomaching this stuff... well, of course, I was hungover again.
Taipei, Taiwan
We were looking for the infamous Snake Alley night market in Taibei, when I spotted a tray of gross looking balls. We weren't sure what they were at first, but the thin veins and tight plump shape hinted that they weren't just a stomach or kidney. We asked... Chicken testicles! "Good for the skin," the lady told us. "Good for male strength," the guy told us, motioning to his groin. That's what it all boils down too -- good skin for women, good erections for men.
We ordered a half dozen of these rooster nuts. They're actually impressive in size, for a bird. As much as I loath to admit, they're bigger than mine. Hard to imagine, eh? Wait, let me check again.... Yep! Wow.
Male chickens are called "roosters" in American English, and "cocks" in English English. Cocks don't have a penis. Go figure. So some scientists (but probably not chicken farmers) call their sexual glands "rudimentary copulatory organs." That's nice and polite, but it probably wouldn't work well when your girlfriend is asking you to talk dirty to her.
In case of a rooster or cock attack, here's what to do... and if you like cocks, there's more info on Wikipedia about them.
Dave refuses to eat the rooster testicle ... but after a sip of beer, realizes he has the balls to eat it...
Snake Alley is funny. They've perfected their trade. Between the restaurants selling deer penis, snake blood, and cock balls (these are all aphrodisiacs), there are sex toy shops, massage parlors, hair salons, and if you wander off the main path, red lights. So within one small alley block, you can get your erection and then lose it -- so efficient! Or get a hair cut to go with your glowing skin. Whatever you fancy.
So we ate the rooster testicles. We asked the chef to cook them simple, so we could really check out their natural flavor. She boiled them in water. They're too big to eat in one bite. The flavor is fairly neutral, and would be good in a curry or with hot sauce. Soft white like soft tofu, in a tight skin like a sausage. The center was liquid like an under-cooked egg or a creamy custard. Is that sperm? Chicken jizz?
More on Snake Alley here...
Labels: aphrodisiac, taiwan, TCM, traditional chinese medicine
posted by Michael @ 2:41 AM
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26 Comments:
you might have outdone yourself on this on. naasssty!
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"Chicken Jizz"
You just had to go there, didn't you? And I had to go reading this over my peanut butter & jelly.
Glad the jelly wasn't actually custard.
Yep, I just went there, too.
i love all parts of the chicken even chicken feet needlessly to say . but rooster nuts??? man.... i dont know if i'd try them . they just look so... wrong??? cant find a word here.
but great site indeed!
:)
You should really try prairie oysters. They are great lightly sauteed.
Wow, you ate Taiwanese cock balls - you're my hero! I have problems with any part of a chicken that isn't normally used at an American KFC.
@ anonymous,
So how do you know there isn't any rooster testicles in KFC ???
So was this more a miss than a hit? Would you do it again?
@ genie,
Yeah sure I'd eat them again, preferably not when I'm hungover. And I'd have them in a dish with sauce instead of plain like this...
The taste is neutral, if I didn't know what it was there'd be no issue really.
They look somewhat dry in the close up picture. And you look as though you might vomit in the first. How silly.
I am fascinated. I learned a lot, even though I've been interested in birds and raised chickens and other fowl for a few years now.
I've never tried bird testicles (I didn't really even think they HAD them), but I've had and am quite fond of prairie oysters. I'm from ranching country and when young male calves go through the de-horning/branding/castrating afternoon, the testicles are tossed into a bucket of ice, then breaded and fried or grilled. They're about the same size as those chicken balls. They have a similar texture to liver, although they're a much lighter meat. Not a particularly strong flavour, but you can tell you're eating beef.
No jizz, though.
Wow! Rooster testicle!! It's one of my favorite! Well in fact, I liked rooster testicle so much when I was a kid that my dad gave a nickname "Kay Lon" which mean 'rooster testicle' in Hakka Chinese dialect. I still take it now though not so frequent anymore.
BTW, have you guys tried lamb testicle? It's a popular food here in Jakarta, Indonesia. Yummy!
Wow, not so tasty looking to me. I have posted about our eating habits in West Africa, so all those organs are considered edible there and I have to say when you end up being hungry you'll start eating just about anything (chicken is pretty expensive so you waste nothing) the feet, head and innards are all fair game...
I first tried deep fried rooster testes at the Cherokee Fish And Game Club, Canton Ga, in 1980
I did not know what everone was eating so I tried them.
They are very good!
You live in a small world if you are not willing to try something new. Capt DON.
oh god, you guys are fags for eating cock jizz
um... you must be very very brave...
Haha, what's wrong? Don't have the balls to eat balls? XD Sounds disgusting, but if it's good, I'd eat it. XD
Sitting on top of comparatively cheap surplus food, it's easy to make fun of another man's food culture. Well, go ahead and eat only those things they serve you in KFC. Sausages made with intestines are ok, veal from those innocent calves is ok, chicken ball is a no no. They don't serve them at KFC! Any thing that go into the salami is ok as long as we don't know what they are.
Can you deny it when I say the nausea you have when you look at an unfamiliar food stuff in a foreign land (it's alway Africa or Asia) is just another form of your superiority complex? As far as I know no one has ever died of eating Rooster testicles!
I have backyard chickens in Oakland, California (for the eggs). A racoon recently killed a hen and the rooster, but he didn't get to eat them. So I gutted those poor chickens, plucked them, and stewed them up! Seems too disrespectful to let their little lives go to waste.
When gutting the rooster, I noticed two large symmetrical organs that were not inside the hen. It took me a minute to figure out what they were! Then I googled "rooster testicles" and found myself here. Since you ate them and didn't die, I went ahead and fried and ate them myself, along with the liver and heart, and of course some eggs. Yum!
I want to report that the creamy stuff you found in the middle was just undercooked testicle. If you cook it longer, it all gets firm, like tofu, as you said. Thanks for leading the way!
in my home country which is Hungary,Central Europe, its quite a common meal to eat these balls in a curry like stew,you get it in every better traditional restaurant.come and try it,you'll love it!
I've eaten just about every part of the chicken including necks suffed with blood, but have not yet tried the elusive testicles. Any idea where to get them in the Los Angeles area? Nice pictures by the way, really brings home the fear factor.
just had me some delish rooster testicles in Budapest, last week. It was in the main square were they sell hot wine and all sorts of traditional goodies. GO Planet!
seriously, it was quite tasty, it was a broth-redsauce-kindaspicy dish.
Looks umm...quite tasty? Looks like a cross between beans and shrimp, only bloody. :D You got balls to eat balls
I want to taste Rooster Testicles
I want to taste it!!Rooster Testicles
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