Disgusting Food Pop-up in LA

There is an exhibit at the A + D Architecture and Design Museum in the Arts District Los Angeles, where you can see, learn about, smell and even taste some of the most “disgusting” food from around the world. Of the 80 International delicacies and unfamiliar foods, a few are actually delicious, while others are more of an acquired taste.

Have you ever been curious about exotic foods from China, Peru and Uganda? Now until Feb. 17, 2019 you will learn how food is more than sustenance, it connects people and can turn strangers into friends.

At the Disgusting Food Museum, pay the $15 entrance fee or $20 for two Yelpers, and receive a Barf Bag as your entrance ticket (They tallied 30 vomiting visitors on the day I visited). Stop at the Disgust Chart to learn how researchers have identified 7 categories of disgust. Food is one of them, such as moldy fruit or lumpy and sour milk. The evolutionary function of disgust is to help us avoid disease and unsafe food.

What you will learn while exploring this pop-up of food, is what might be delicious to one person can be revolting to another.

Exhibited delicacies include: Stinky cheese from France; fried grasshopper from Uganda; Pink candy musk sticks from Australia; Fruit Bat Urine Soup from Guam; fermented Herring from Sweden; roasted guinea pigs (cuy) from Peru; bull penis from China; maggot-infested cheese (Casu marzu) from Sardinia; stinky tofu pungent bean curd from China; and well-aged (Hákarl) shark from Iceland.

After visiting various tables, I dare you to step up to the Tasting Bar for a pleasing taste of the infamous Durian stinky fruit from Thailand. Other Tasting Bar delicacies included crunching a crispy bamboo worm, swiping some Australia’s Vegemite sandwich spread onto your tongue, popping in a Japanese black Century Egg for a quick chew, sipping Spruce (pine flavored) beer made in Bristol, RI or a Polish favorite (Sok Z Kiszonej Kapusty) sauerkraut juice.

Bon Appetite!

Info:

Pop-Up from Dec 9 – Feb 17

A+D Architecture and Design Museum

900 E. 4th Street

Los Angeles, CA 90013

Hours

Wednesday – Friday: 2 pm – 8 pm

Saturday -Sunday: 12 pm – 7 pm

CLOSED – Mondays and Tuesdays

Last entry is one hour before closing

Prices

General Admission (13+): $15 weekdays / $18 weekends

Children 12 and younger: $10

Groups of 10 or more: please contact USA@disgustingfoodmuseum.com