Menudo is not only an amazing Mexican pop boy band, it’s also traditional soup with beef tripe (stomach) and it’s commonly referred to as a magical hangover cure. [Photo]

One of Cartlandia’s most popular food carts, this big red truck serves a trio of offal tacos in the form of tripa (cow stomach), buche (pig stomach), and lengua.

Order any of the soups from the Bun section of the menu and out comes a bowl of spicy, rich broth with noodles, meat, and cubes of pig blood. It’s a great way to get that extra iron and also try an authentic Vietnamese dish right without leaving the country. [Photo]

Here is how you really experience offal all in one bowl—lambs heart, liver, and lung all stuffed into a sheep’s stomach. The traditional Scottish dish, haggis, can be found at the fish and chips cart downtown at the 9th and Alder pod. The dish was originally just on special periodically, but now it’s a fixture on the small menu. [Photo]

Weekly soup specials showcase many interesting ingredients at this small Vietnamese lunch spot. On Friday, head in to try the Phnom Penh noodle soup with a mix of seafood, pork liver, and bbq pork. [Photo]

The Russians know how to do offal too: cholodetz, a terrine of jellied beef shank and veal feet comes with hard boiled egg and spicy mustard. There’s crispy beef tongue with sweet onion sauce, kumquat, and parsley, and a beef tongue stroganoff—lap that up with egg noodles, mushrooms, and cognac smetana sauce. [Photo]

Crank up your heat tolerance for spicy pork intestine marinated in a Chinese 10 spice, simmered with a trio of peppers, garlic, and ginger. And how many places in town can you say, “I’ll add a side of pig intestines” to your soup for two dollars? [Photo]

Hit either of Nick Zuckan’s taquerias locations—Chinatown or Division—for smoked lengua tacos with cactus, potatoes, in a tomatillo sauce. [Photo]

As the saying goes, at the Parish they are “as serious as a... quartet of animal hearts” with a dish called the Heart Attack. Each heart is served in its own preparation: a rabbit heart comes with creole mustard and shallots, the duck with sweet hot chili sauce, a lamb heart with apple creme fraiche slaw, and the cow with a lemon herb aioli. [Photo]

Tripe, tendon, and pizzle (yes, that’s penis) abound at this Vietnamese pho spot. You can pretty much take your pick and experience offal in a tangy broth with rice noodles until your hearts content. [Photo]

This very newly opened El Paso-style taqueria on Alberta Street has lengua tacos, with roasted beef tongue, a vinegar slaw, and grilled green onions on their inaugural menu. [Photo]

At this traditional Filipino restaurant many of the house specialties make use of offal, including bopis, a dish with pork entrails simmered in soy sauce with peppers and garlic, and paksiw na lechon, a liver soup base with deep fried pork belly. [Photo]