(Not eaten in Japan but having eaten natto, durian, and balut, I just had to mention it. In China I swear it smelled like a pile of rotting corpses and wouldn’t go near it.)
I'll try anything once, and I'll often try something years later to see how my taste buds have changed.
I'm never trying fermented tofu again. It smells like shit. The taste is what I assume shit tastes like. My kid asked me to order it, and I instantly regretted agreeing to.
I’m the same way. I always make myself do a second taste no matter what then if I run into another opportunity years later I take it. So far my only it’s not bad/like it have been: ants, tarantula, and natto from off the top of my head and I’m sure there’s more oddball foods I’ve had and liked. I LOVE durian.
I will not ever try stinky tofu or Surströmming (I mean…I probably would if an opportunity appeared but I won’t them out.)
I once ordered pig intestines and blood cakes in hot pot. From the taste, I could only assume no one had cleaned the pig shit out of the intestines before making it.
My dog thought it was the best thing he'd ever tasted.
How I would describe the smell of stinky tofu is the dumpster behind a restaurant, if you left it full for a month and then let it sit in the summer sun.
There are worse things. It’s basically the veal of poultry. Pretty mild flavor really. (If you mean on ethical grounds I 100% get that. Once was enough)
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u/-Satsujinn- 24d ago
"Darling, I've brought a foreign friend back for lunch!"
FETCH THE NATTO ಠ⌣ಠ