Japanese dishes that will make you lose your appetite

Japanese cuisine has its roots in centuries-old history. Most of her dishes include rice, pickled vegetables, fish and vegetables cooked in broth. The culinary tradition places great emphasis on fish and seasonal products. In recent years, this cuisine has gained huge popularity all over the world. But if you regularly go to sushi bars, this does not mean that you have tried real Japanese dishes. And they can be so strange that they will completely discourage appetite. Don't you believe it? Take a look at these five typical Japanese dishes that would be simply unthinkable on our table.

A dish with a dancing octopus. Fortunately, the octopus is not alive here. Salt in soy sauce causes the muscles of the octopus tentacles to contract like a zombie.

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Basasi. This dish consists of pieces of sliced raw horse meat.

Raw fish is still a good thing, but horsemeat… One has only to imagine sad horse eyes, as the appetite is blown away by the wind.

Natto. These are fermented soybeans, slippery and very odorous.

They are usually seasoned with soy sauce and sometimes even eaten for breakfast.

Inago-no-tsukudani. This dish is made from insects, such as locusts.

The crispy snack is eaten with sweetened soy sauce.

Shirako. In fact, this is the sperm of fish, shellfish and some other creatures that live in the water.

This product is served cooked or raw. And this "yummy" is definitely not for the faint of heart!