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Gastro-Adventurism

The Stuff My Stomach (…and my rear end) Has Tolerated

USA

One raw cow testicle (at my wedding)

Ants (tastes like lemon)

Live cricket

Rabbit’s eyeball (sucked out of the bunny’s socket just having just whomped it on the back of the head with a club – optic nerve at the back much be gnawed through and the eyeball swallowed like a marble – tastes salty and warm)

Wasabi sushi (just rice and one large hunk o’ wasabi)

Roasted squirrel (caught several with a trap)

Pickled pigs feet

Breaded cow brains (sweetbreads)

Breaded crocodile

Frog legs

Caviar

Pig stomach stew (menudo)

Steak – always rare

Licked a banana slug but haven’t eaten one… yet

About two-shots worth of Thai fish cooking-sauce (concentrated anchovy extract — very salty)

Numerous raw chicken eggs (like Rocky) occasionally with hot sauce

FRANCE

Cat jerky (dried kitty)

6-month-old sausage that has been molding (literally) in an open room

Blood sausage

Andouille – intestine stuffed with intestines

Just about every sausage available at the supermarket

Aged moldy cheese (Roquefort, Vacerin)

Enormous horse-meat steak

Escargot

About two bowls of whole popcorn shrimp in Paris at a military barracks (food poisoning)

Many decorative small-portioned plates of French food

Pastis (Southern anise liquor – tastes like black liquorice)

Many delicious wines

INDIA

Lassi (containing everything they advise you not eat in India due to the probability of sickness – milk, ice, fruit, ice-cream, dirty glass, straw)

Just about everything you can buy from the street vendors and eat with your hands

About a hundred different types of curry

KOREA

Live large octopus (yes, live and still violently wriggling and sucking to my lips as I put it in my mouth), eaten with soy sauce and copious amounts of sochu (two whole octopi)

Raw U.S. quarter-sized bugs that live on the crops (tastes like dirt)

Fermented cabbage (about a thousand kinds of kimchi)

Sea snails about the size of a dime that one sucks out of the shell while eating buckets of them out cups — sold on the street like popcorn

Ox-tail soup (for breakfast)

Dog stew

Raw manta ray (tastes like formaldehyde)

Raw jellyfish

Raw sea squirt

Raw sea slug

Various raw shellfish

Lots of so-chu

JAPAN

Poisonous blowfish (Fugu) feast — fugu sashimi, boiled fugu nabe stew with vegies, fugu skin, 10-sec boiled fugu testicles (which, by the way are of significant proportion with relation to Mr. Fugu — oh yea, 2 servings of these suckers too), sautéed fugu fin in a cup of sake (X2 – makes your lips numb), lots of beer to wash it all down

Candied Crickets

Ikezukuri (fish killed in front of you then served sashimi style)

Fish head soup from which I ate the head

Various fish heads (too numerous to count)

Raw red snapper (killed in front of me prior to eating)

Raw cod testicles

Raw octopus testicles

Raw cod eggs

Raw salmon eggs

Raw pulverized crab organs/brains (crab viscera)

Raw crab (with claw)

Raw lobster

Raw eel

Raw sea urchin

Raw shrimp and crab brains

Raw whale

Raw cow

Raw chicken

Raw duck

Raw horse

Raw conch shell intestinal tract

Raw goat testicles (sliced with soy sauce)

Raw cow liver (with garlic soy sauce)

Just about every raw fish available in Japan (please tell me if I missed one!)

Squid guts in wasabi sauce

Squid guts in squid juice sauce

Cow tongue

Sea cucumber

Just about every kind of seaweed

Chicken gizzards on a stick

Chicken cartilage on a stick

Pork intestine on a stick

Pork stomach on a stick

Fermented soy beans (natto – often for breakfast)

Octopus marinated in octopus ink (tastes like liver)

Squid ink spaghetti

Fried shrimp heads (shell, body, brain, intestinal tract, eyes and all)

Giant sea snail (on the full shell)

Sea cucumber (an animal not a plant)

Seafood stew with little live fish bought at the local supermarket and dropped in boiling water

Candied crickets

Pure aloe juice at $100/bottle (natural diuretic)

10 year-old fermented ginger root alcohol (first to drink it in ten years)

Described to me as the little-bird-that-sits-on-the-power-lines (robin?) on a stick

Fish (mackerel, I believe) still alive and moving eyes and mouth

Cow trachea and heart on a stick

Shrimp alive and still squirming (odori-gui) – Jumped out of my hand three times, peeled then tail bitten off alive

Snake venom alcohol (Okinawa liqueur made from poisonous venom)

Grilled Ox Diaphragm (Harami)

Grilled Beef Boobs (Udders – Shibire)

Grilled Fourth Ox Stomach (Giara)

Raw Third Ox Stomach (Senmai)

Raw Ox Meat (Kurogewagyu)

“Delicacy of salted gills and organs of the pollock fish” (Chanja Korean Style)

Boiled octopus mouths

Raw squid testicles

Raw octopus eggs

Raw octopus testicles

Live shirao (very small, thin, transparent fish swimming in vinegar)

Raw awabi (shellfish) liver

TAIWAN

Smoked duck tongue

Boiled chicken kidney

Deep fried crickets with French-fry-stuffed thorax

Seasoned jellyfish salad

Baby U.S. quarter-sized octopus with secret “five-flavor” sauce

Boiled chicken feet

Chopped and boiled chicken intestines

Chicken eggs marinated/preserved in horse urine

Eel head with Japanese unagi sauce

Boiled turtle soup (killed in the restaurant prior to serving)

Boiled snake soup (killed in the restaurant prior to serving)

Turtle blood cocktail (red)

Turtle bile cocktail (dark green)

Snake urine cocktail (opaque)

Snake penis pill (taken with a shot of turtle blood cocktail)

Snails Taiwan style

Fried octopus mouth salad

Smoked shark’s fin

A list of unrecognizable yet tasty, roasted stuff on sticks

MALAYSIA

Chinese rolled kangaroo with pine nuts

Chinese ostrich stirfry

Boiled pig liver on stick

Boiled pig kidney on stick

Many boiled things on sticks

CHINA

Sea snail

River snail

Whole sparrow on a stick

Chick on a stick

Duck liver

Shark fin soup

Snake soup

Snake pancreas in a liqueur

Unhatched chicken (balut)

Pig bladder

Intentionally fermented tofu (acquired stinky taste that I’ve “acquired”)

Peking Duck (bird fed in a box with grains)

Duck tongue

Duck kidney

Duck webbed foot

Silk worms

Caterpillars

Green grasshoppers (with big wings)

Brown grasshoppers (with little wings)

Starfish

Cow testicles (half raw)

Cicadas

Scorpions

Sheep penis (about 1 foot long)

Sheep testicles (approximately 15 of them)

Sheep stomach

Sheep lung

Duck head, brain, and eyes

Bird’s nest

Water bugs with paddle-like arms

Deep fried Chrysanthemum

Sea horse

Goat placenta wine

Pig brain

Horse sausage

One 8 oz. raw steak (not rare – totally raw and warm – cut right off the leg)

“Sea Monster” – a 3.1 kg horseshoe crab (considered one of the oldest species in the world – dating back to prehistoric times)

(frankly, I’ve eaten a lot in China of which I was unable to confirm the identity)

AUSTRALIA

Emu

Kangaroo

Crocodile

Koala and kangaroo feed (food pellets from the zoo-keeper)

MEXICO

Menudo (tripe soup)

Tripe tacos

Tongue tacos

Live sea urchin x3 (caught snorkeling using a dive knife – prickly bastards)

Cerano pepper (spiciest pepper in the world – raw, in one bite)

KENYA

BBQ Camel

CAMBODIA

One palm-sized spider

Fertilized egg

(Trying my best to find the next prey, ideally mice and/or monkey. If anyone has any info, please let us know. Then again, we live in Guangzhou so we’re working on it.)