There are daredevil eaters, and then there are people who have dined at Chinju-ya Restaurant. This Japanese restaurant serves some of the outrageous dishes on Earth, and make frog legs look like potato chips, Some of the dishes (whole cockroach platter, soft boiled boar foot, whole piranhas, and bear meat stewed with chicken eggs) may shock you or inspire you to take a one of a kind trip.
Chinju-ya literally translates to something like "rare beast monger," which basically sums up the spot's whole theme. This Japanese restaurant, located in Yokohama in Japan's Noge district, is known for serving such exotic and outlandish dishes as deep-fried axolotl and black scorpions. Let's do a quick rundown of other out-there items you might read on the menu: reindeer steak, badger meat, isopod, crocodile feet, deep-fried whole chicks, soft-boiled boar foot, pigs brain stew, camel curry, bear meat, and just about every insect you can think of. The drinks menu is more of the same, with the star here being the snake sake served from a big bottle with an actual venomous snake immersed in the popular Japanese spirit. Because the menu is seasonal and based on availability, you never know what you might get. Bonus: The restaurant's Twitter regularly tweets updates on what is new. Even if you can't read Japanese, the photos are worth gawking at.
This unique restaurant is a actually very popular with locals and tourists alike, despite the spicy prices of the dishes. A roasted frog, for example, will set you back about $90, while a deep-fried salamander costs $190. Patrons seem to think the experience of feasting on these rare meats is more than worth it, though.