Grussellt, Sea urchin is commonly eaten in Japan, and is called uni. It is considered a gourmet food.

I'd have to say that I didn't enjoy my experience with balut. I didn't really like biting the head off the embryo.

Fortunately, I did give a second chance to durian. The first one I had the sulforous part was a little overpowering which made it hard to enjoy. But the second time, I liked it. It has a very rich, lightly sweet taste, if you get a good one.

There's a restaurant in Johannesburg that serves exotic game animals. The two times I was there I had ostrich and gemsbok. From the meat texture you could tell that they were active animals. The texture was similar to Argentinian beef.

I was in the northeast part of Thailand during the dry season, and a young boy taught me how to catch grasshoppers by dumping water down their hole and catching them running out of their other holes. They fried them for us.

In northern Thailand, I was invited over to a family's house for dinner. They served the local specialty of red ant eggs, which was made into a kind of salad. It had kind of a bitter taste. When asked for my reaction, I said that it was something interesting that I hadn't ever experienced before. The daughter burst in to laughter and said "yeah, we don't like it either!".