Taking place tonight and tomorrow in Hokitika on New Zealand’s South Island is a food festival unlike any we’ve ever seen before. The annual Wildfoods Festival celebrates the region’s local delicacies (and cast-iron stomachs by the sounds of it), as local vendors come together to demonstrate their latest edible and often obscure offerings. With the idea of presenting the area’s natural food resources in innovative and healthy ways, the tasty treats on offer include smoky blackened sheep’s tales, worm sushi, jellied baby grasshoppers, pickled Huhu grubs, colostrum shots, deep fried shark, worm truffles and lion burgers. If this all sounds too much like a bushtucker trial for your liking, you’ll be pleased to know that they have some slightly more mouthwatering options available including local oysters, BBQ’d wild venison, honey pancakes, handmade fudge and chocolate burritos. There is also the chance to try a variety of whitebait dishes that, due to the 2 month window available to catch these little fish, make them a veritable delicacy (and delicious, too).

This fun and innovative food festival causes this quiet coastal town to swell to seven times its normal size with daredevil eaters celebrating the South Island’s west coast wacky, fun-loving lifestyle. There’s an equally wild dance in the evening too with live music, DJ’s and local entertainers taking the party through to the early hours. All in all, it makes for an extremely fun, unusual and slightly stomach-churning prize that we’d love to experience for ourselves.