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Home » Destinations » Asia » Vietnam

Eating Cobra in Vietnam, Bourdain Style

Modified: Oct 11, 2021 · Published: May 4, 2010 by Dave Lee |

Check out this video to see Brock (from Backpack With Brock) slurp a beating cobra heart and then proceed to eat other delicious bits and pieces of the snake (including penis wine--I kid you not).

I had bet him $50 to do this while in Vietnam to make up for missing the experience myself. 

I got the idea after seeing Anthony Bourdain do it on his old Food Network TV show and book, A Cook's Tour.

The only question is.....whether Brock can get through the whole meal without losing his lunch!

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  1. Neeraj says

    May 04, 2010 at 7:55 pm

    Great, he da "man" for eating exotic animals and drinking penis wine! Idiot!

  2. JimmyTH says

    May 06, 2010 at 11:02 am

    No respect due unless he ate the entire snake. Wasteful and pointless practice (and I've never heard anyone say anything good about the taste).

    • Dave says

      May 08, 2010 at 11:25 am

      Hey Jimmy, from the looks of it, he ate a whole lot of the snake. Not sure which part you think he missed? I mean it's not like this is a wilderness survival situation. I give him kudos for eating as much as he did.

  3. GlobalButterfly says

    May 09, 2010 at 9:23 am

    Okay, I'm a staunch veggie and have been one for 10 years, but I gotta tell you Brock you f'cking rock!!!

  4. Dave says

    May 17, 2010 at 1:19 pm

    Hey Jimmy, from the looks of it, he ate a whole lot of the snake. Not sure which part you think he missed? I mean it's not like this is a wilderness survival situation. I give him kudos for eating as much as he did.

  5. Dave says

    May 17, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    Hey Jimmy, from the looks of it, he ate a whole lot of the snake. Not sure which part you think he missed? I mean it's not like this is a wilderness survival situation. I give him kudos for eating as much as he did.

  6. Hoang Nguyen says

    May 22, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    Yummy stuff 

Dave at Ahu Ko Te Riku on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile.

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