[ESL Guy]

Originally Posted by ctravel

I think the most unusual thing I ate was raw pig ears (Okinawan restaurant).

AKA mimiga~ (みみが～)...yummy!

This squid ink soup that I had today was a bit strange also:

Ikasumi Jiru (いかすみじる；イカ墨汁) is good but it has to be eaten at a restaurant that specializes in it and known how to make it properly. Bad squid-based food is the worst!

Here are some crab snacks from Japan -- you eat them in the shell like potato chips. You can smell them across the room. I was told that you eat them while drinking awamori (Okinawan hard liquor).

In Okinawa they would drink it with awamori but people in other parts of Japan would most likely drink it with sake (nihonshu;にほんしゅ；日本酒), beer or some kind of shouchu (しょうちゅう；焼酎)

Here is a closeup:

Those bumps look gnarly! How did the crabs taste?

What is the strangest thing that you have eaten while traveling?

I have been lucky enough to eat some pretty strange things and narrowing it down to just one is too hard. So, here is a list of the 5 weirdest things I have eaten in random order (I wish I had pictures):

• Hongeo in Korea: raw skate fish buried for a week or two until it rots and tastes like ammonia.
• Boshin Tang in Korea: Dog soup
• Ku-ga in Okinawa, Japan: raw goat testicle sashimi
• Hi-ja- sashimi in Okinawa, Japan: Raw horse sashimi
• Basashi in Kumamoto, Japan: Raw horse sashimi

The only one that I would have to think twice about eating again would be the rotten skate fish. After going home from the restaurant I smelled something rotting in my apartment. I walk all around to find out where I left the food out, but my whole apartment stank. Then I realized that it wasn't my apartment, but my clothes. They smelled like rotting fish and had two be washed twice to get the smell out...