My food exploration kinda limited, all listed below. Do share if you have any interesting find:

Horse sashimi (Bangkok) - they served both the meat and fats together, fats looks exactly like butterfish sashimi, taste wise kinda buttery while horse meat taste just like beef. Not eating that again because I prefer beef.

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Wild bullfrogs (Ulu Langat) - Had this at a restaurant in Ulu Langat, not always available. Weighs around 1kg per frog, personally I find the meat a bit tough as compared smaller to farm breed bullfrogs. Definitely smaller frogs taste better.


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Monster mud crab (Singapore) - Not exactly exotic but with a weight of 2.8kg per crab, this is a rare find for me and also the largest I've ever eaten to date. Crabs weighing around 1kg - 1.5kg is pretty common in Singapore's seafood restaurants btw. Every mouthful is solid chunks of sweet delicacy, unforgettable.

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Cobra steamboat (Bangkok) - As usual they will serve using shot glass that contained gall with snake blood, in it there's also a live beating heart of the snake, they will top it up with Thai rice wine then you'll gulp it down. Next they put snake's skin into pressure cooker, made into appeitizer, something close to Japanese jellyfish texture, said to contain plenty of collagen. Meat of snake will be slice into thin layer and snake's bone thrown into soup stock. Surprisingly the meat tasted smooth and chewy, similar to that of frog legs. Had it once, don't mind doing it again.

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Deep fried locust (Bangkok) - Delicious, goes well with nice cold beers. Taste is close to twistees, salty & crunchy. Nice little snacks.

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Ant eggs...scorpion...in Thailand...

How was it especially the scorpion? It's in my "to eat list", will try it some day.

Silkworms Cocoon (Chiangmai) - Had it while having a short getaway there, it has a nutty taste to it, texture similar to soggy french fries. Not disgusting at all but won't be eating again due to texture, I prefer crunchy snacks.


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Bats in Manado restaurants in Indonesia, one of my favorite food! Make sure you can handle really hot & spicy food to try this, or else then just avoid ya.

Had fruit bats awaiting me in Sarawak, hopefully still there by CNY.

wah... terer. i dun dare to tried also...

How they cook it there? In Indonesia they cook it with tons of spices and very hot & spicy but tasty too.

My father in-law will be the one cooking, yet to try. Spices are needed to cover the "Wild" flavor for certain wild animals.

Yes true. IMHO the meat is like smoked turkey at least when prepared like in Manado food.

You enjoyed wild delicacy too? If given a chance, try steam stone fish in hongkong style. This fish have poisonous spine so must handle with care, despite ugly look, the flesh is similar to scallop.

Actually not really, certainly not as adventurous as you. So far had only eaten bats many times, snake once or twice, kangaroo once, shark once, that's all I think.
No thx, I don't dare to try something poisonous that may kill me later!

Poison will be gone once cooked. Some live seafood restaurants have them but kinda rare. Shark meat are nice too, the one I ate is nurse shark.

The most exotic dish I have ever tried has to be Haggis, when I visited Scotland a couple of years ago. In simple terms, it's just a pudding; but look within, and you see that the pudding is made up of a sheep's heart, liver and lungs. I can't pretend I liked it. It was neither appetizing-looking, nor tasty at all.

Hahaha...that's interesting. Ain't sure I have the gut to take it if given a chance especially if it's cold pudding.

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deep fried worms in china. i was young and my auntie told me it's the chinese herbs that looks like a worm (tung chung chou). turns out that those are really worms. sigh

Those are expensive stuff and good for your body. Same goes to people drinking bird's nest.

yak testicles

erm. not really. because i didn't eat the herbs, i ate worms. ew

with bigger livestock such as chicken,cow,pig etc getting more and more expensive to raise and purchase, these might be the future of main protein source.

Horse meat, in the form of sausage (the one hanging at back in photo). In Belgrade Serbia.
Bit more fat than the normal European cured sausage and salty.

Was talking to my Mongolian friend and apparently these extremely cold countries like eating horse meat. As in, they eat horse meat as normal as we eat beef.
Sounds exotic to me.

Will I eat it again? Yep, I liked it. Even brought back some.



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The one I had was raw, think it will taste like beef or deer if it's cooked. Many may find it repulsive to consume horse meat but as you mentioned some places consumed them regularly.

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About time we use these as alternate food source. Won't be long before we deplete the ocean from fishes and crustacean.

does belangkas consider exotic?

Almost ate this in Bangkok but stopped because of poisoning cases. A friend of mine said only the eggs can be eaten. Have you tried it? How does it taste?

These fellas crawl on seabed and brackish mangrove water, does it have this "muddy" taste?

my relative bring home belangkas and we just fry it on the gas stove just like that..

only the eggs can be eaten, it taste.. I dunno, different in good way.. salty a bit..

but.. got fever that night, my face swollen..

poisoned I guess..

will I try it again? yes

You may want to read this but guess I'll avoid.

"Between 1994 and 2006, a total of 280 cases of varying degrees of tetrodotoxin poisoning following ingestion of the toxic eggs of the horseshoe crab, Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, were admitted to the medical service of Chon Buri Hospital. The severity of the poisoning was classified into four stages based on clinical signs and symptoms of human tetrodotoxication. Of 245 available medical records; 100 were in stage 1, 74 were in stage 2, 3 were in stage 3 and 68 were in stage 4. The frequencies of symptoms and signs included the following : circumoral and lingual numbness (98%), hands and feet numbness (94.7%), weakness (59.6%), dizziness and vertigo (54.3%), nausea and vomiting (52.6%), transient hypertension (39.6%), respiratory paralysis (27.7%), fixed dilated pupils (14.7%), ophthalmoplegia (12.2%), blood pressure lower than 90/60 mmHg (5.7%), and polyuria (0.4%). All patients received symptomatic and supportive treatment. Endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation were considered when paralysis was progressing rapidly. The results of treatment are as follows: 239 patients (97.5%) showed complete recovery, 5 patients (2%) died, and 1 patient (0.4%) suffered anoxic brain damage. Horseshoe crab poisoning occurs both sporadically and epidemically in Chon Buri. Seasonal variation in the number of cases of poisoning was observed with a peak from December through March."

Had a chance to tried game meat while visiting Nairobi Kenya, there's this restaurant name Carnivore, they serve free flow of grilled meat from giraffe, wildebeest, crocs, antelope etc. Quite interesting as the location is next to wildlife safari, can hear mating calls from lions not too far away.

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not really exotic but i tried crocodile and kangaroo meat

recently a horse meat sashimi in japan

Yogyakarta fried crickets. Taste not bad. Like eating those satay fish snack.

Crying giant salamander (娃娃鱼) - China

Curry / sweet & sour monitor lizard - Malaysia