I've had the following:
- dog (don't know the breed). It was delicious with a lemon sauce. It's darker than dark turkey meat and very lean.
- iguana. Cooked in coconut sauce. The iguana didn't really have it's own taste - it just tasted like coconut sauce. Texture was very rubbery/chewy.
- barbequed crickets. Just like iguana in that they didn't have a taste of their own - all I could taste was the barbeque flavor. Crunchy. This Thai sister missionary in Khon Kaen Thailand (my first area) ate a whole sack of them one night and broke out in hives the next morning.
I never had
balut when I was in the Philippines but I saw plenty of people eat it. Many missionaries ate it as a badge of honor. Totally gross:
My old man lived in China for 12 years and has lots of stories to tell about the wierd things he has eaten at banquets. The one I remember most was elephant penis.