cooked squid, it tasted good, and i might have enjoyed it had i not been grossed out by it.
People always get mad at me when i admit this, but I’ve had shark before. That’s about as exotic as it gets for me. I dunno, I’ve had alligator, squid (but they were still in tact which is why I include it as exotic). I guess exotic is all relative really…I’m sure there’s more.
Myrnajean, seaweed? Never heard of it, must be from some other region of the Philippines or something.
Curried Oxtail. Way back in 4th grade, the teacher thought we should try a new exotic food each week. Blah.
Brains (pig and calf)
Testicles from several species
Rattlesnake
Heart (venison, elk, and beef)
Deep-fried mealworms (plain and cheez, I kid you not)
Alligator
Pickled seaweed
Steamed periwinkles
Ostrich and it’s cousin, emu
Fresh Durian
Tigers2B1, I have a friend in Australia who loves balut. He’s told me many times how much he enjoys it and has promised me that once I try it, I’ll love it too.
Rationally, I know that birds are edible through every stage of development from freshly laid egg to adult. But the thought of cracking open a fertilized egg and eating a partially-developed chick just turns my stomach.
Dog liver. I was six years old and at an Indonesian wedding. The bride gave it to me, I hesitated, my dad gave me The Look, and I ate it.
Exotic foods that I not only have eaten but eat regularly:
Durian (fresh, dried, and in milkshakes)
Tongue
Brains
Squid and octopus cooked in a variety of ways (not really exotic imo, but everyone else is mentioning it)
Salmon roe
100YO eggs
Chicken and pig feet (the latter are especially good in tomato sauce)
I’ve had alligator, frog, and blood sausage; liked all of them but don’t get to eat them too often.
Balut is on my list of things I really want to try, along with dog and ackee fruit (which, when prepared improperly, causes the dreaded and often fatal Jamaican Vomiting Sickness).
Yes, seaweed. Its actually available now in the local Jewel grocery store in the “ethnic foods” section. Its dried up and papery looking. Papery looking when dry, snottly looking when boiled vigorously. Ick.
Maybe she just made it cause she hated us.
Long pig. :drools:
Escargots.
Chicken feet.
Crocodile steak.
Freeze-dried grasshoppers.
Baby bees in honey.
Chocolate-covered ants.
Ostrich.
Bear meat.
Sea cucumber.
Does human flesh count as exotic?
ooh…where to begin…off the top of my head, i’d say:
Sharks fin soup (not that much tast in the shark’s fin…just texture)
Ostrich,
Emu,
Geoduck (unusually phallic looking shellfish),
some sort of chinese salad that had jellyfish in it,
Fried Squab (pidgeon- raised on a farm …hopefully? :dubious:)
Bird’s Nest soup (almost TMI, but- comes from the nest built by swallows from caves, however, you don’t actually eat the nest (who’d eat twigs??)…you eat what the bird uses to bind the nest together…saliva… but then again, i suppose no one would shell out money for something called “dried bird spit soup”;))
…uh well…I came from Singapore…so…there are other things that probably count as “exotic” here…
such as: Durian, Rambutan (friggin hairy looking fruit), Jackfruit (less spiky than Durian, with no smell), Mangosteen (um…kinda hard to describe but reallt tasty), Logan, Lychee, Starfruit…and these are just the fruits…
And then there’s a few malaysian deserts that I can remember off the top of my head (the spellings vary cuz its in malay, not english…and i can’t spell in malay :D):
Ais Cachang (beats the hell out of snow cones, i can tell you that)- in a bowl, on the bottom part, there’s a mixture of grass jelly, red beans, some other jelly and other stuff, and on top there’s shaved ice flavored with many sweet syrups…
Kueh Dahdah- green crepe (its green cuz of the leaf used as flavoring) with a coconut and palm sugar mixture stuffing rolled up like a burrito
…
I think i’ll stop here…
Yes it does - c.f. “long pig”…
And leading on from cod’s roe…
I won’t claim this as my own story - work colleague at Japanese banquet in Osaka. Eats something really disgusting by manages to swallow. Asks translator, “Err, that was interesting. What was it?”
She, “I do not know the word, you know the fish eggs, yes? Well that is the male equivalent…”
Phil was of course asked when back in the office whether he would spit or swallow next time… 
eel
alligator
pork brains scrambled with eggs
squid
shark
kimchi
tongue
seaweed
The dry seaweed is great when sauteed. I wish I knew how to do it right.
A human arm.
Rattle snake (Think fishy chicken)
Frog legs (Think slimy fishy chicken)
Octopus (Not really that exotic)
Turkey testicles (Think turkey breast)
Giant clam (pungent fishy superball, yuck)
Squirrel
Quail
Pigeon
Chicken Gizzards (yes people eat them)
Ostrich (Think dry beef)
Smoked trout eggs (crispy smoked fish)
Brains of various animals
Tripes of various animals
Testicles of various animals
Snake
Shark
Assorted weird seafood
Marmite
Alligator burgers. At a sumo stable near Nagoya.
Chicken gizzards exotic? Never thought of that. We serve them all the time at my work. Mmmmm, nature’s bubblegum!
Horse and goat are probably the most exotic I’ve had.
I went to the local Hunter’s annual dinner last year and tried…
Bear
Moose
Couger
Boar
and at various times I’ve had the Grasshoppers, Durian (yuck)
shark, escargot, rambutans, ostrich and kimchi