Indonesian ticktocker Haritsu became famous in Japan thanks to videos of him eating spoilt and mouldy food. Vice interviewed him.
According to Haritsu, poverty and boredom made him a lover of spoilt food. A few years ago, he moved to Japan to study, but then he dropped out of university and found himself in poverty. There wasn’t enough money even for food. It was during that period that the future ticktocker had his first taste of food that others find nothing but disgusting. “I’ve always been a curious person. Others think, “But why?” And I think, “Why not?”,” he explains.
In his first video for TikTok, Haritsu was devouring meat from two months ago, thickly covered in mould. “I still remember what it was like to the touch,” he revealed. – It was like a thick layer of slime slipping between your fingers. But it was far from the most disgusting dish he had ever eaten, he said. Haritz liked rotten eggs and mouldy rice much less. In the former case, he was embarrassed by the smell, and in the latter by the worms.
