Eatery in Mexico City Dishes Up Creepy Crawly Fare NTDTV
go to original September 15, 2014

A Mexico City restaurant serves a dish with whole spiders, saying the mild flavor offers quite the enjoyable bug-filled dish you won’t want to send back to the chef. Gavino Garay reports. (Reuters)

It's a dish that's not for everybody, certainly not for those afraid of bugs. But one small Mexico City restaurant called Restaurant La Cocinita de San Juan is sure to give gastronomic daredevils a new food challenge - tacos with insect toppings.

That's right, the eatery even has a full list of Mexican-style tacos with wild menu items such as scorpions and spiders. And they really are "wild," says restaurant owner Pedro Felipe Hernandez.

"It's hard to catch them, they're wild, the scorpions, the spiders. They're wild. So there are people who are in charge of going into the hills; to go and lift up the rocks and uncover them in the weeds. To grab them you have to be really careful because the scorpions, if they sting you, yeah those little scorpions will send you to the hospital," Hernandez says.

How do you get your customer to eat something they would normally send back to the kitchen? You disguise it with other condiments, which isn't too hard to do given the scorpion's mild flavour Hernandez says.

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