In Japan, in all grocery stores you can meet a terrible dish – tuna eyes. They can offer you this amazing traditional dish in many restaurants as well. It is like a thick, monotonous mass with fish taste.

In Mexico, gourmets can taste a local delicacy – the Whitlacoche. In fact, it is not a dessert at all. Actually, it is an aggressive fungus that disfigures corn kernels and the whole fruit. As a result, the cob is transformed into a very ugly black thing. And in Mexico this is recognized as a valuable product that locals like to eat. Farmers deliver it in restaurants in huge quantities, and local people use this product in different local home-made dishes.

More facts about Japan. Locals adore a dish completely unknown to a European citizen, this dish is called shokara. Like most dishes of this eastern country, it is prepared from seafood, namely, squid. They cut a squid that is alive, take out its entrails, then place everything into a tightly closed container, where the squid, still alive, begins to marinate. In a month it will be ready for eating.

Farm products in Cambodia are not like our native, from our villages and private farms. The main ingredient of the local agricultural industry is fried spiders. They are bred and fried literally everywhere. All locals adore them in fried or dried form, although for Europeans it seems strange, to say the least.

And now let’s go to the north, to Greenland, Canada, Chukotka, where the Eskimos and other native inhabitants of the northern latitudes live. They have their own idea of tasty and healthy food. They prefer maktak. It is skin and fat of beluga whales in frozen form. According to travelers, it is impossible to eat! But from the point of view of expediency – this is a very useful and necessary food for such harsh latitudes. The skin and fat of these animals contain all the necessary nutrients and vitamins for men, thanks to them you can survive even in the environment of snow and lack of normal food.

In China, too, they prefer exotic food, as well, and don’t like “normal" healthy food. So, they use eggs, which are expired a bit. They are called century-old eggs. In this case, despite such a bright name, the eggs are placed in a sealed package in a salt solution for only up to four months. When the time is right, the package is opened and the eggs are fed to the table. With certain patience, they can even be eaten.

But there is something that we cannot understand about Japan: how is it possible to eat a dessert in the form of a cookie with a filling of wasps. The Japanese catch the wild wasps, and then they bake them in cookies. It is believed that such dessert is very useful, prolongs life and improves its quality.

If our readers come to South Korea, they will find there another curious dish, which is not like others. These are the pupae of the silkworm. People simply adore it here and eat it in different forms: they can cook or stew it. Local people consider this homemade dish to be very healthy and tasty. At the same time, local farms regularly supply markets with this product. Travelers have different views on its taste. Some say that it is chewed like rubber; others state that it tastes like wood. In any case, this dish of national cuisine is worth getting into our rating.

Now let’s go to Vietnam and its neighbors, where there are a lot of surprising things with matters of national gastronomy. Local people will willingly offer you a local delicacy, which cost a huge amount of money. And that is soup of nests of Swifts-Salangans. They are not just nests. It’s the saliva of these birds, with the help of which their homes are glued together. According to the inhabitants of Southeast Asia, this soup has unique health-improving properties, gives men strength, endurance, and raises immunity. At the same time this dish looks like a thick and tasteless slime. However, local residents believe in its miraculous properties.

And now let’s go back to Mexico again. There we are waiting for another unique dish of local cuisine called escamoles. In fact, these are fried eggs of giant local ants. Experts say that it is really tasty, and travelers should try it. However, this dish also can be called delicacy, that’s why you’ll have to pay a huge amount of money for it at the restaurant. And it is easy to explain that fact: getting eggs is rather difficult, since the anthills are very deep under the ground, and these insects are extremely aggressive and protect their offspring which is not born yet.

In South Korea, there is another interesting dish – sanachchi. It is really adored all over the country. It represents still "alive" tentacles, cut off from the octopus. These tentacles try to jump out of the plate in front of the gourmet. The task is simple – before the tentacle crawls away, it must be eaten and not choked. They say that it is very tasty.

In China, as well as in South Korea, people love to eat everything alive. But to make the process of eating easier and so the living thing does not escape, they soak alive and healthy shrimps in alcohol, so that those are drunk and calm on the gourmet’s plate. After that, people can eat slowly, without fear that lunch can escape.

In the previous news we already wrote about this amazing and completely incomprehensible for us home-made dish from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. This is guinea pig, and the dish is called with the simple word "kuy". In Russia we are more used to the fact that guinea pigs are used in laboratories and as pets. Here they are eaten with appetite and in large quantities. And we’d like to ask our readers to try this dish and to write here their opinion if it is tasty or not.

Residents of Alaska also have a special taste. So, the Eskimos cook and eat a curious dish – tepa. It is being prepared for several weeks. The essence of cooking is as follows. The heads of the fishes are placed in a barrel of wood, the insides of these fish are added there, and then the barrel is buried in the ground. All this is staying underground for several weeks, after which it is excavated, and the home-made dish of the Eskimos is ready!

And in Africa, the original Russian expression "blood and milk" is understood as it is written. Because of the severe climate, constant droughts, lack of food and water, some African tribes found an original way out in search of nutritious, delicious and healthy food, while making it easily accessible. It's the blood of a cow and its milk. Slaughtering a cow for meat is too expensive for local tribes, and getting some blood from it and mixing it with milk is quite affordable and absolutely safe for the animal.

And our nearest neighbors, Finns and Swedes, eat pancakes with blood. Pancakes are the most usual, those to which we are accustomed in our villages, at home kitchens. And the blood is real, and it is served instead of the usual milk or sour cream.

Many people, including in China, are indifferent to dishes made of blood. The Chinese love homemade and traditional dish – the blood tofu. At first, blood is obtained from a duck or a pig. After that, they provide blood clotting, and then they start to cook it. As a matter of principle, that's all. The resulting jelly is cut and served on the table, or added to other dishes of local exotic cuisine.

In Africa, along with milk and blood, they like to eat various insects. Here we will tell you about caterpillars of peacock-eyes butterflies. Local African tribes collect these caterpillars in the villages from trees, boil, dry and eat. Many people say this dish is very respectful. Since the insect dish is popular with local people, their shortage in nature is compensated by farm products. So, in South Africa huge farms have been created, where local workers grow these insects, and then sell them to expensive restaurants.

And now let’s talk about something delicious. In 2015, in England, there was a delicious and sweet dessert – ice cream. But with one peculiarity. It is made from human breast milk.

Enjoy your meal!