What!? Sushi is delicious - but if you get it poorly prepared I can see how it might be awful.
I'm a first-generation natural US Citizen in my family, so my parents immigrated from Asia. I have been to plenty of countries in Asia as a result and have tried some pretty ridiculous food.
Snake tastes like chicken but has a texture kind of like fish. Strange, but not too bad.
Turtle is weird, I don't remember much of it because I was weirded out that they were served whole (baby turtles cooked in their shells)
Escargot is not as bad as it seems
Dog, I'm ashamed to say, actually is not that different from beef (don't crucify me on this one, I was like 9 years old and my dad tricked me)
Nastiest thing I've ever eaten is probably sea cucumber or sea urchin. Slimy with this weird chunky texture, tastes like sea water. Makes me gag even typing about it.
Durian, think of a fruit that has the consistency of custard and the smell and flavor of spoiled cottage cheese. It is so bad you aren't allowed in a taxi with one in Southeast Asia. I tried it in NYC, they are available there in some Asian markets.
I ate cockroaches and mealy worms when I was working in Borneo. The roaches were roasted and spiced nicely and were actually kind of tasty. The mealy worms not so much. I had to work hard to control the gag reflex as those things slid down my gullet.
As an aside about durian, a Chinese employee once told me that the literal translation of the Chinese characters for durian was 'cat shit melon' - lao ling qua (apologies if I butchered the anglicization of the Chinese characters).
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