We have a saying, "Anything between heaven and hell is fair game". Well this applies to the Chinese.

People of Hunan are notoriously famous or is that infamous about their culinary adventure. Even the Chinese have a saying regarding the people of Hunan, "They will eat anything on four legs except a chair." Yes they will try dogs. Yes they have a dish called Phoenix, dragon, and tiger. I'm not sure the order. Phoenix is chicken??, dragon is a snake and tiger is a house cat.

Nope I don't think so. But then again, I will have pork every once in a while. Beef every once in a while and definitly no fried rat. I've had horse meat but not here in US. Muslims and Jews may not appreciate pork and Hindus may not appreciate beef. South east asians with the fried rat may be disappointed if you pass on the fried rat.

Natto... I'm Japanese and I can't stand that stuff. The first person who tried the stuff must have been awfully hungry or desperate. The smell, the sticky texture, and the brown color. All the way gross. My younger sister used to taunt me with the stuff on hot rice to make it more "aromatic". But that's okay cause she thought green bell pepper, aka capsicum, was gross, yummmm.

No bugs though. No sea cucumber or other nudabranchs (sp). Closest thing to a bug is honey.