I had it when I visited Japan last September. I went square dancing, and after the dance the other dancers invited me to go out to eat with them. As we were walking there, a guy said we were getting chicken sashimi, and i thought he was kidding. But he wasn’t, and i ended up at a raw chicken place.
I had raw liver, raw gizzard, raw breast meat, and barely seared (mostly raw) thigh meat. And after we’d finished the raw chicken, they brought us a fried chicken. Not a batter-fried chicken, just a chicken that had been cooked in hot oil.
I love sushi. I’m the one who brought up German mett, which i adore. I like raw beef, and sometimes, when I’m cubing beef to make stew, will snag a couple of interior pieces and eat then raw. I love raw oysters and clans, too. But i wasn’t wild about the raw chicken.
It was extremely fresh, and firm, and didn’t have the slimy feeling that chicken often has when you buy it in an American supermarket. But it was extremely mild in flavor, and just wasn’t very interesting or exciting. The fried chicken they brought out after was much tastier. (It was only barely fully cooked, i suppose, but it was cooked through.) It wasn’t gross or especially icky, but i doubt I’ll ever have it again. If I’m going to take risks with food safety, I’d prefer to get something delicious for it. This was more in the category of “not nearly as gross as i expected”.