Asklemmy

Whale and fermented shark in Iceland.

IDK if it's "exotic" but cariboo is f-ing excellent.

Camel, crocodile, kangaroo, horse, whale, puffin…

Had bear once. Was smoked and actually delicious.

• Rattlesnake
• Sea Urchin
• Reindeer Hamburger
• Abalone
• Cricket
• Frog
• Alligator

Horse- When I travelled to Uzbekistan, on airplane one of the meals was delicious meat with rice. I thought that its beef (it looked like it) but later I found out that its horses meat. Feel little sorry later because I enjoyed so much in meat of such a beautiful animal.

It's not really exotic here, as you just get it at the supermarket with the other meats, but people find it fascinating that Kangaroo meat is widely eaten in Australia. It's a lovely and rich ted meat. Very lean.

Yak. Had a delicious yak goulash in a restaurant in Thimpu, Bhutan. Very similar to beef, hard to tell because of the spicing.

Alpaca.

I had a steak. It was fantastic.

Alligator. It's halfway between chicken and whitefish.

Fresh fried Moose heart. It was drenched in butter and seasoning and was actually pretty good. Little chewy though.

Also, smoked turkey gizzard. Fucking disgusting.

For me it's ostrich. I've eaten a lot of elk and bison, but they're so easy to get in my area, I don't seem exotic (my mom's freezer is always full of bison hot dogs). I've eaten a lot of ostrich too. I had a roommate for several years who loved it and would cook with it all the time (mostly chilli, but he'd also make meatballs and other stuff with it).

My exwife and I once watched some people get served live shrimp at a fancy sushi restaurant. They were squirming around, trying to escape. They (the people) couldn't figure out what they were supposed to do with them. They asked the chef to demonstrate how to eat them, but he either misunderstood or was just like "lol, white people" and took them back, chopped their heads off, shucked their shells and returned them to the people.

A family friend once invited us over to celebrate a promotion. To celebrate, they prepared an expensive meal and had expensive alcohols. The star of the meal was a thinly sliced piece of raw horsemeat. It was not particularly interesting, though it was very tender. I think it was more intended to "share the wealth" than for its actual appeal and flavor profile, though I was a kid and there was a cultural difference, so maybe I'm wrong. Either way, it was an interesting experience.

My friend had us eat that Korean kind of octopus where it's still half-living when Koreans eat it. I wanted to leave so bad.

Hmmm. I've had rabbit prepared 5 different ways at a very expensive restaurant once (had just gotten a bonus for the first time in my life and it landed on my wife and I's anniversary). It was fantastic, like dark meat from a turkey or chicken, but a tad gamey which I didn't mind.

Venison is delicious, as is elk. Buffalo burgers are solid, not much different than regular. I've had ostrich jerky but it's pretty much the same as most other jerkys by that point.

Had shark once, was very good and similar to swordfish.

Funnily enough all of these things I tried in the US, and none while actually traveling abroad despite adventures to most of the continents at this point.

"Exotic" meat's meaning animals besides the "normal" ones, are generally not great. They are novel, but the quality of the meat is low since normally the quantity of that kind of meat is low. Also there is a reason the meat is "exotic" in the first place. If it were particularly good, it would be mass produced since you can grow meat in a lot of places and the costs don't really vary that much.

I'd say if you want "exotic" meat, as in high quality beef or whatever, go for it. If you want "exotic' meat like elephant meat or something like that, it's not worthwhile.