Have you tried XYZ before?


I English I can ask somebody if they've experienced or sampled a food or
drink, or even an activity with this verb:

  * Here **try** this and tell me if you like it.
  * I **tried** koregusu once but I didn't like it.
  * You don't have to eat it but at least **try** it.
  * I like spicy food so I really want to **try** taka-no-tsume.
  * You can't say you don't like tequila if you never even **tried** a good one!

Non-food/drink examples:

  * Did you ever **try** scuba diving?
  * I **tried** hitchhiking once but I prefer to travel by bicycle.

I'm having trouble finding a word, phrase, or pattern, to express this sense
of **try**.(I know it overlaps with the other senses of try in English.)

These are the closest Japanese terms I could find. Do they do the job?

  * 味わう
  * 嘗める
  * 試す
  * 味見する




I think the most universal way of expressing _trying_ is using て-form of a
verb followed by みる. For example:

> 電話してみるよ。  
>  I will try calling you.
>
> お好み焼きを食べてみたい。  
>  I want to try eating okonomiyaki.

In addition, what you can express in English as "try" as in "have you tried?"
is sometimes asking about past experience and can be expressed in Japanese as
た-form of a verb plus ことがある.

> お好み焼きを食べたことがありますか。  
>  Have you tried okonomiyaki?

