Tastes like scorpion

I had great plans to eat my way across Beijing, but the combination of urban sprawl and jet lag made me disinclined to spend my evenings trying to get across town, and as it turned the hotel had a fantastic Chinese restaurant so I tended to take the path of least resistance. But I did see some interesting things that I couldn't quite bring myself to try when I was out, including these skewers of scorpion and seahorses (they also had beetles and other things that I was probably better off not knowing):



And I don't know if this picture will be large enough to be readable (maybe if you click on the picture), but I loved the items on this menu: