Insect cannery worker Suprawat Chotchak tastes
a canned water beetle made for human
consumption at an agricultural research
centre in Sakon Nakhon, northern Thailand.
A man slaughters snake at a restaurant at Le Mat, dubbed "Snake Village", some 10 km (6 miles) east of Hanoi.
Mac Smith, 14, (R) pauses to chew his rattlesnake as Sam Pintor, 18, (L) finishes eating during the rattlesnake eating contest at the 48th annual Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater, Texas.
A piece of sliced raw whale meat is pictured in a restaurant in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji, 420 km (260 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
A Chinese woman shows unprocessed swifts' nests harvested from her birdhouse in Sitiawan, in the northern Malaysian state of Perak April 20, 2001.
A Chinese cook calls out to customers as he prepares skewered quail for deep-frying at a food festival in Shanghai.
Canadian chef and restaurateur Chris McDonald's dish, quail stuffed with chicken, is seen in his restaurant Cava in Toronto.
A Chinese woman eats from an ox and dog penis dish at the Guolizhuang "strength in the pot" penis restaurant in China's capital Beijing .
Floyd West pulls a branding iron from the fire while 'prairie oysters' cook on top during branding day at the LJ Ranch near Jumping Pound, Alberta, May 8, 2005. 'Prairie oysters' are calf's testicles and are considered by some to be a culinary delicacy.
A waitress shows "Braised Shark's fin with Saffron Chicken Sauce", one of the dishes of Diaoyutai State Banquet, during a news conference at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in Hong Kong.
A South Korean women chops dog meat at a
restaurant in Songnam, about 50km (30 miles)
south of Seoul .
Dog meat or "Dan go gi" in North Korean expression, is placed on a table at a famous restaurant in Pyongyang November 13, 2008.
A chef chops cooked field rats at a wild game restaurant in Guangzhou, the capital city of China's southern province of Guangdong, Janaury 5, 2004.
A Thai man poses while drinking a glass of rice wine with a scorpion in the village of Baan Niyomchai in Lopburi province, about 250 km (155 miles) north of Bangkok, on January 28, 2002. Villagers there are found of wine fermented with scorpions, believing the insects can cure various diseases and improve sexual potency.