Food edition: "Never would I have"

I've been writing about some of the experiences I've had in Japan that I would never have had I never left my home country. Food is a very wide topic. There are many different types of food I have tried in Japan, that I don't think I would have had the opportunity to have tried in Ireland. There are far too many to list, so I will just mention the most memorable ones.

Of the top of my head, at the top of my list, is horses tongue. Of all the unusual things I have eaten over the years, that one stands out. In 2001, I did an internship in a Japanese conglomerate. Almost every weekend, usually a Friday night, the "bucho" or "kacho" (managers) brought me out to dinner, along with a handful of other staff. Over the weeks I tried all manner of "new-to-me" cuisine. I had a rule; "don't tell me what it is until after I've eaten it". And so it is that I ended up eating things like whale, blowfish, dolphin, raw horse meat, and sperm sacs, among others. 

There are also several other foods that I think I would have eventually ended up eating even if I settled in Ireland. Such as ramen, gyoza, sushi and yakitori. They are all widely available in Ireland in recent years. What food do you think you may never have tried had you not moved to Japan?