I’ve been looking for something weird to eat lately, so I turned to this blog site for help. Turns out Yuju, another user here, gave me a place with the best menu I’ve ever seen.





I’m not really sure what to say about all of this. I’m not really into eating gross stuff, but I’m totally into grossing out friends and family.





So here, in Yokohama, sear Sakuragicho, is a restaurant that not many people know about. The only evidence I’ve seen of this online are japanese blogs, but not very many english ones, so… here I am now, banging away on the keyboard like a man playing taiko drums with a pair of wet fish.













This restaurant, well, more of a bar, holds about 15 people. Nervous about getting in, we made a reservation. It's a good thing we did that, because if we hadn’t somebody else might have shown up and watch us embarrass ourselves in front of a handy cam, and watch one of my American friends mispronounce the Japanese word for beautiful to one of the bar maids who was frying up some cockroaches.





Oh, yes, the cockroaches, our first meal.





Cockroaches are those uninvited guests that come over for dinner. I could imagine at the start of this bar, a cockroach came along, somebody called out ゴキブリ！ and the owner would flick the insect with his finger. Unfortunately the cockroach fell into the deep fat fryer…

Which gave the owner an idea….

(probably not what actually happened, but it's a nice thought)





Later on, adventurous eaters like myself would ask for more than just cockroach.





Just from what I remember from the menu, there was cockroach, scorpion, monitor lizard, reindeer, crocodile, kangaroo, Axolotl, Isopods, crickets, locusts, and a bunch of other stuff I didn’t study the Japanese word for.





Our second plate

Scorpions are predatorial creatures that eat other little creatures. They have a long venomous tail and sharp scissor like claws.





When we cut off the scissor like claws with a pair of scissor like scissors, we can tell right away, this was fresh and crunchy, right out of the deep fat fryer.





(everything is deep fried here)





Now, I’m not sure if its safe to eat, but I haven’t heard of any deaths coming from this place. But then again, I’ve only heard about this place about a week ago. Also, not sure where scorpions are native to, but definitely not Yokohama, and definitely not in January.





Our Third plate