Fear Factor Food

As I've mentioned before, even after 7 months I am still discovering new foods to eat in Japan every week.

I told many of you that last week I had raw horse (which actually tasted better than most raw fish) and squid ink ice cream (that stained my mouth & teeth black and tasted mostly like vanilla).

This week was a new adventure for my taste buds. 

First was a lunch entree of beef tongue, so that was 5 cows tongues slathered in some mystery sauce.  And yeah, I believe it was tongue because it had a tough and chewy consistency like I was chewing my own tongue at one point!

Next was jellyfish.  If you think you'd like to try jellyfish some time, just boil some thick rubber bands and start munching...  It's the exact same taste!!  Rubbery and chewy.  Eventually you just have to swallow.  Didn't have any flavor to it, good or bad.

Finally was shark fin soup flavored with crab egg.  Surprisingly, it was orange with white floaters (the crab egg) and was kind of gummy & sticky.

It's funny how I am now thankful when I see tofu and seaweed on my plate because those are considered "safe" foods to me.  How my taste buds have changed!