Fallow deer? Kathsgrdn....do you speak the language?

octopus with a quail egg: sounds interesting

Oh my goodness. That is adventurous!

I do so want to go to Japan and eat the wonderful food I see pictures of. Not certain about the worms, yesterday?, but at least taste. Sadly if I eat too much rice my joints ache and my eyes itch. I have been told wheat is more popular in the north but to me the more interesting places are the bottom two thirds.

Nicole, I don't know. Everything was closed up by the time we got there. I only know a few words. My kids speak more than I do. My mom taught me and my brothers when we were little but my father told her to stop because it would confuse us. He later regretted that. Eld6161, I didn't eat anything new to me, so not so adventurous. Maifleur01, what worms?

Editing this because I did eat some snack foods I never had before...and a strawberry sandwich on white bread. But the octopus and quail egg I've had before, although, separately. Oh, and I forgot about the wonderful dish I had twice, I forgot what it's called, thick, gelatinous seafood soup/stew that has bites of seafood in the bottom. So delicious.

I could not find the post but unless it was on another site I thought you posted some blobs of brownish gelatin stuff. I looked it up and it generally contains some type of "sea" worms. Whoever posted it stated they had not tried the dish.

Edited to state it was not you. Was in the PF Chang thread.

Sashimi/sushi is usually both artfully presented and very delicious but not exotic compared to many things that are commonly eaten in Japan. I was an adventurous eater during my first trip there. Two things I remember eating in particular were grasshoppers and tadpoles. Both tasted fine if you didn't think about what you were eating nor look too closely at what you were putting into your mouth. There were some other things I questioned myself about and decided to just eat them and not ask what they were.

I like octopus and it's a common seafood in the big European Mediterranean seafood eating areas like in Iberia, Italy and Greece. Whether eaten cooked or raw (sashimi) Japanese style, the flavor isn't that different from squid (calamari).