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L’Houstalet: Flying Foxes

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Established since 1972, L’Houstalet is a French Restaurant, Bar and Nightclub in Vanuatu. This is supposed to be one of those most popular casual restaurants that serve pizza and pasta and traditional French desserts. The difference is their specialties include snails, coconut crabs and flying foxes. Flying foxes also known as fruit bats are the largest bats in the world.

Archipelago: Zebra, Kangaroo, Peacock, Locusts and Crickets 

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Archipelago restaurant is an international fusion of culinary influences that brings together the exotic, exciting, and unexpected right in the center of London. How would you like to dine on seared zebra with a port & juniper sauce and sour green mango soba noodles? How about some peanut-crusted wildebeest rump? Or would you rather have the wok-seared frog’s legs cashew and callaloo with ginger & coriander rice? If you’re not ready for that, try the lunch-time tasting menu of African crocodile bites and the spiced Australian kangaroo fillet instead.  Of course you can always opt for the chilli and garlic locusts and crickets, and the chocolate covered scorpions. The restaurant’s reviews include: “Archipelago is actually a serious restaurant, with an extremely competent chef” and “dishes make as much of an impact as the striking setting…flavours are vivid and there’s plenty of less eccentric choices.”

Shock Legend Restaurant: Lizards, Scorpions and Toads

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Insects have long been considered culinary favorites in Thailand where street stalls offers mounds of crunchy pan-fried crickets, grasshoppers and beetles. It wouldn’t come as a surprise if Shock Legend Restaurant’s waiters don scary masks while spooky music can be heard on the background to create just the right dinner ambiance as guests sample on creepy crawlies such as lizards, scorpions and chili-fried toads. They say fried lizards tastes like fried shrimp while toad and gecko tastes like chicken.

Kaokeng Beef Restaurant: Cow Eyes, Tendons, Intestines and Heart

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Kaongkeng Beef Restaurant in Kinmen, Taiwan is one steakhouse you will never forget. It’s the perfect place to familiarize a cow’s anatomy. Appetizer includes sliced tongue and shredded stomach which comes with chili sauce and coriander leaves, to be followed by crispy and greasy deep fried large intestine. A “whole cow” banquet serves up to 15 people. You need around two hours to try on the 17 dishes served which includes curried cow eyes, bull’s penis in brown sauce, tendons in spicy sauce and cow’s heart in sesame oil. A “half cow” banquet is also available.

Guo-li-zhuang: Animal Penises and Testicles

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Located beside Beijings West Lake is China’s first specialty penis restaurant. At Guo-li-zhuang restaurant, the reproductive organs of yaks, donkeys, oxen and even seals are part of every dish except for the ones containing testicles. A trained waitress with a nutritionist will explain the menu to brag about the medicinal value of the food when you make reservations. Some dishes looks indistinguishable such as the simple goat penis, sliced, dipped in flour, fried and skewered with soy sauce. For beginners, the nutritionist recommends a sampling of six types of penis and four testicles, boiled in chicken stock. The deer and the Mongolian goat were said to look and feel like overcooked squid tentacles. The Xinjiang horse and donkey both came sliced lengthwise looking like bacon but the horse are light and fatty while the donkey has a firm color and taste. The only one with bone in it is the dog penis. The testicles are slightly crumbly and tastes better with sesame, soy and chili dips. A specialty that requires advance ordering is the Canadian seal penis. Liquids include deer-penis juice.

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