What is the most exotic food you have ever tried and did you like it?

Answer 1

I ate giraffe meat in Nairobi Kenya , and no I did not like it the flavour was gamy and tough.

Answer 2

All three of these foods are extreme delicasies in Japan, where I frequently travel for work:

Raw baby octopus. It was an appetizer after a golf tournament in Japan. It was the entire baby octopus - whole. It was in a dish of what looked like blood. I tried it, but it was awful.

I also had raw chicken in Kumamoto, Japan. It was tough, chewey, and did not taste good. Chicken changes its texture more than any other meat when cooked, and also the flavor. It is raised there to be salmonella-free, but it tasted bad.

On the other hand -- I also had (at the same meal) raw horse meat. It was sliced very thin, and was excellent! In the USA, we think it is gross to eat horse meat, but all meat is muscle, right? A horse is much more muscular than a steer, yet we eat beef all the time. Horse seems gross because we think of them more like a pet.

Answer 3

Squid. It was very rubbery, so no I didn't like it. My mother prepared it...she isn't Japanese; so I'm sure if I had it made by the experts I'd have a different opinion.

Bear. Yes, bear. I had a friend who had killed a bear and he made it parboiled it...which was simply nasty. I hear that bear meat doesn't brown so that may have been the wrong cooking method...but it's not like you have ton's of bear recipes in Betty Crocker's "Joy of Cooking".

Moral of story? Find out how to cook the exotic food.....

Answer 4

Garlic Ice Cream

Answer 5

pig stomach, it wasn't bad, had a lot of spices.

some kind of mold, i was told i would live forever. not very good.

lions head soup, is actually a lion crab or some kind of shell fish. supposed to make you smarter. looks like brains

pigs feet, makes you faster, omg, there's a story, i knew it was pork but that's about it, feet and hands have a lot of bones, so you chew it apart in your mouth. As i'm doing this i peel off something, i pulled it out to find a hige pig toe nail, i gagged all the way back to my flat.

chuan- which is just meat on a stick, nothing odd about it at all but it takes some courage (and about 3 months consideration) to buy meat on a stick off the street vendors in china. It bacame one of my favorite foods.

Answer 6

Wow, after being in 32 countries around the world, I've eaten a lot of different foods and like most of them. My weirdest experience was in Viet Nam. I found JOE'S HAMBURGER STAND and went their several times. Any time you eat American style food overseas, it tastes a bit different. I asked a friend of mine to come have a hamburger with me. I explained what they were. When I gave her hers, she said HMM NOT COW, NOT PIG. I asked her what she thought it was...
HMM I THINK DOG.
Raw fish in Japan, escargot in France, had no idea what I was eating except some of it was lamb in Qatar, drank milk mixed with blood in Africa, ate a lot of stuff in Viet Nam I didn't know what it was, and many local foods in other countries. I did get a cheeseburger, fries and a shake in the Afrikaans (I think that's how it's spelled) hotel in Tunis, Tunisia.

Answer 7

Chicken claws... SO GOOD (just had some today!). Pig tongue - SO GOOD. Sea cucumbers yummm. Snails, crayfish mmm. Pig intestines and pig feet mmmm! Squid, jellyfish, fish eggs, raw fish - yay! And fish eyes yum (also had today)! Also these tiny limpet things you suck to get to the meat. Organs - liver, chicken hearts, etc. All delicious.

:) I am so serious. After all, it's all just carbon-based molecules cooked different ways!

Answer 8

I ate at this one grease joint in a small town in Nevada once. Whatever I ate, it was certainly exotic. I didn't know what it was, and I did not want to question it. I just ate it, and it tasted good.

Answer 9

I'm not sure if it was Alligator or Crocidile, but it was good. It really did taste like chicken!

Answer 10

exotic? Calamari and I hated it