bird's nest soup in a white bowl - CatherineScarlett/Shutterstock Since the 1500s, Chinese aristocrats demanded bird's nest soup for its purported medicinal benefits ...

Los Angeles brings together cultures and cuisine from all around the world. The city’s markets and restaurants offer menus that may be a little different from the typical dining hall menu. Each week, ...

Take this soup, for instance. Properly known as bird’s nest soup, it’s been a prized delicacy in China and among Chinese people for 1,200 years. The best nests were reserved as gifts for emperors and ...

Bird hotels in Indonesia try to attract swiftlets, whose edible nests are a delicacy in China. The swiftlet nests, made of dried saliva, are used to make bird's nest soup. Farmers compete to attract ...

It was not in a restaurant that I first tried one of China’s finest delicacies, bird’s nest soup. It was in the office of a nest “dealer” in the Malaysian city of Johor Bahru. Dr Tan Boon Siong ...

2000-12-19 04:00:00 PDT Muk Island, Thailand-- High in the caves of Thailand's idyllic southern islands lies an unlikely treasure that people are willing to kill for -- the nest of a sparrowlike bird ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We went to the Philippines to find out how bird's nest soup is prepared and what it takes to find the main ingredient. More from Risky Business We went to the ...

IT is scarcely probable that the famous birds-nest soup which Chinese cooks at the Health Exhibition offer to favoured visitors will ever become a popular dish in England. The tasteless, gelatinous ...

Up there on the weirdest-things-you-can-eat list has to be bird's nest soup. It would be weird enough just to eat your standard twiggy-grassy robin's nest, but this predominantly Chinese delicacy is ...

Resting on a steep hill on the island of San Pascual, Philippines, is a house that's home to one man and 80,000 birds. These tiny black-and-brown birds are known as "swiftlets," and they're a hot ...