Name: I ate giant isopod@ Japan's Most Exotic Restaurant (with Maggots/Sparrows/Bears)
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T14:39:19.000Z
Duration: 11 min 15 s
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This complex was redesigned, renovated in 2019, but it's still considered one of the fashion icons of Tokyo.

Alright, well, I think I've found the place.

But it's some kind of... it looks like a lizard, a gecko or something.

Let's take a look inside.  Maybe smaller than I would have thought.

And we've got our kind of appetizer, I guess is maybe the best way to call it.

But if I eat small bites only, and you wanna call me a wimp, just put that in the comments below.

I'm gonna go feet first instead of head first.

Because that is the kind of wimp that I am.

I don't know what I was being such a wuss about.

I remember one time, there were six people from the US.

So, I'm just pretty sure that the producers of this show hate me.

Because they're giving me maggots to eat.

If you don't know what they are, ooh, it's got like a pop to it.

Obviously that means it's a bug thing, I guess.

Maybe like a really good beer snack, actually.

I'm actually surprised that I'm eating this, and that I'm okay with it.

When Buddhism came to Japan, they passed a law prohibiting the consumption of five types of meat.

Okay, but deer, boars, bears, they were not on that list.

Now fast forward nearly a thousand years.

Fifth generation shogun Tokugawa decides to prohibit killing pretty much all animals and bugs.

They changed game meat into flower names and sold them as medicine.

Some of those names still continue to this day.

If you want to feel better, you can eat zokuro kintama.

So we've kind of come to the main portion of the meal I guess.

I'm not really good with my descriptions in this episode apparently.

I said maggots are maggots, bears are bears, but that's what it is.

So I'm going to put a little wasabi into my soy sauce.

Because when in Rome, it's a little bit maybe...

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I ate giant isopod@ Japan's Most Exotic Restaurant (with Maggots/Sparrows/Bears)

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