In Japan, I ate eel, squid, sashimi (raw fish), beef sashimi (raw steak), fried cow tongue, and these raw itty-bitty silver fish you're supposed to sprinkle on your rice or something. I only put about 5 of them on my plate. HAHA!
As for the raw beef, it was cut into thin slices, presented similar to
this. It didn't look nasty, nor did it taste bad. It tasted like...well...rare steak! I actually prefer my steak red in the middle, but I just couldn't eat more than a slice of the completely raw beef. The THOUGHT of it got to me more than the taste. I'd say the same thing for the cow tongue...couldn't eat more than a slice.
Oh, by the end of the trip, we were served intestine soup. THAT, I refused. I was so sick of trying weird foods at that point, and it looked pretty nasty anyway.
