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Oh my gosh! I have always wanted to try sushi! My grandson has a Japanese exchange student staying with them this summer. Next Sunday (we're big on Sunday Family Dinners) Yukiya will take my daughter & grandson to my local fish market (with attached restaurant/take out) and chose some assorted sushi for us to try. I can't wait!

I want to try fake vegetarian meat, but some look so real it scares me

I scratched Abalone off of my list this year, which leaves cobra. When I was in Vietnam a few years ago, you could order it fresh out of the cage, and have the still-beating heart offered to you in a shot of whiskey. I was too squeamish then, and may still be now. But I've regretted not trying it for several years, and so if the opportunity comes up again...

I've never had sweetbread so - sweetbread!

Also want to try brain.

deep fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

"what are all of you waiting for? "

Hmmm. Good question. I suppose I'm waiting on someone in the Bay Area to offer fresh, live cobra that they'll pull from a cage, flay, cut the still-beating heart out of and serve to me in a shot glass of rotgut "whiskey."

I love this post idea!

I guess seafoods would be at the top of my list, particularly mussels and more dishes with scallops. My limitation is similar with location and budget, but I also have another restriction: living in a house with a kosher kitchen.

Thanks for this!

Really good scallops. Everything I've tried was the equivalent of an old tire swimming in butter. Is it possible to get good scallops in the midwest??

Authentic New Orleans cuisine.

Uhhh..I think my list is too long to post here so I'll just stop now!

Truffles. Olddad, I may be a day closer to dying, but I am no closer to affording them!

BaHa, black french truffles are indeed expensive and a couple of ounces will easily cost $100 but if you really want to try them, order an ounce and savor every last bite. and emptyage, if you ever find a place that will serve me a beating cobra heart in a shot glass, please let me know, i'll meet you there. (but i want it served with jack daniels black)

I want to go to a Moroccan restaurant and sample everything on the menu, especially Bastilla...

I live in Wyoming, where there isn't any Korean/Japanese/Thai restaurants, let alone Moroccan. When the bf and I go to Denver later this month, I'm dragging to the Moroccan and Ethiopian places...

Goeduck clam is actually available
a) in a Chinatown nearest you, but I'm pretty sure they cook it. Raw anything still isn't all that in vogue with traditional Chinese cuisine. Some restaurants have them live in their seafood tanks...hideous things indeed!
b) at a well-stocked respectable sushi bar, ask for mirugai aka "giant clam"
c) at a Japanese market like a Mitsuwa (if you live in the tristate area, try the one in Fort Lee, its regularly stocked either pre sliced or in larger pieces).

Hmm...what would I like to try?
When I was in Japan last, I never did get to try their raw horse meat, basashi or fugu (poor student budget!).
I chickened out on grilled scorpion and cicada pupa, but I kick myself for that constantly. Next chance I get (and that may be soon!), I'll really have to go for it!
Something a little more down to earth...I really want to try some authentic Osakan okonomiyaki...I've had some in Tokyo, but many people have told me you just, havent had it until you've gone to Osaka...it's also like a good kaiseki meal in a rustic old ryokan some day!

I want to buy a big mass of chicken livers and cook them up in oil and butter with onions. I think it was Jacques Pepin who did this recently on Fast Food My Way and it looked like the most glorious fatty mess ever. I'm a'scared because a) I don't want to handle chicken livers. I can barely stand handling raw chicken as it is and b) what if it's disgusting?

Poutine. And now I can--Inn at Little West 12th makes four kinds, and that wonderful pommes frites dispensary on Second Avenue at 7th Street has it too. My arteries won't exactly thank me, but it would be a one-shot deal.

Woodenspoon, you have to try making bread pudding. It's dead easy and the leftovers make an awesome breakfast.

I'd like to try ice-cream made with liquid nitrogen.

Some years ago the PBS program "Victory Garden" went to a banana farm. They had over 50 varieties. One was called "ice cream". It grew round about the size of a softball, and when the host bit into it his eyes rolled back and it looked like he was about to pass out from pleasure. Apparently, the creamy texture and vanilla like sweetness gives the ice cream banana it's name. I want that! Too bad most markets only vend the one Chiquita style variety.

people say they are dying to try haggis....very over rated in my mind... think innards and oats....even if you thought of it on a gourmet way.... it still shouldn't keep you up at night... think bahn mi! :)

Fresh durian, almost impossible to get in the States.