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So you\u00a0ate the worm in a bottle of tequila–wow! That’s nothing compared to trying really exotic, unusual and interesting foods in California’s unique ethnic neighborhoods.\u00a0The\u00a0food court at Asian Garden Mall in Little Saigon, for instance, serves\u00a0pho, a soup featuring tendon, tripe, octopi\u00a0or\u00a0squid. You can also step into\u00a0markets and select\u00a0live frogs in tubs\u00a0to buy and take home for\u00a0dinner.<\/p>\n
Nursing a hangover from too much tequila? On Saturday mornings, Santa Maria, Santa Ana and nearly every town has\u00a0fresh Menudo, containing animal organ meats such as stomachs and brains, pigs’ feet and assorted animal hooves. Yum!<\/p>\n
On March 27, 2017, head to an annual favorite,\u00a0Oakdale’s Testicle Festival.<\/a>\u00a0 In recent years the event has even featured the award-winning Bushwacker<\/a>, retired now, but saving his\u00a0family\u00a0jewels to make ‘million dollar babies’\u00a0sure to follow in daddy’s footsteps\u00a0(hooves).<\/p>\n So you\u00a0ate the worm in a bottle of tequila–wow! That’s nothing compared to trying really exotic, unusual and interesting foods in California’s unique ethnic neighborhoods.\u00a0The\u00a0food court at Asian Garden Mall in Little Saigon, for instance, serves\u00a0pho, a soup featuring tendon, tripe, octopi\u00a0or\u00a0squid. You can also step into\u00a0markets and select\u00a0live frogs in tubs\u00a0to buy and take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24064"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Food Festivals and Events<\/a><\/h2>\n
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