Today we will come back to food again, which is about unique dishes made from insects. In the past, insects were considered a nutritious food for humans.
Even the ancient Greeks considered insects to be a luxury snack. From generation to generation, modern humans gradually forget this delicacy and feel disgusting when they have to chew on a pupa that is still moving in their mouth or swallowing a centipede.
Just hearing makes me so scary! However, these dishes are extremely delicious and nutritious. Come on, let’s come with 10 horrible insect-based delicacies you can get addicted
Number 10: Nereidae
This is a Vietnamese specialty that many people, including Vietnamese, let alone foreigners do not dare to try. If you look at the prepared dish, you will find it very delicious.
But try looking at the living one, do you dare to eat it? In fact, the Nereidae is the common name for a group of over 500 species.
But the common Vietnamese Nereidae that are commonly caught are the sea Nereidae. This is a rare product, because each year appears only a few short days, mainly floating on September 20 and October 5 each year.
Other than the above dishes, Nereidae are rarely fried or grilled but chopped, mixed with eggs and some other ingredients to make delicious spring rolls.
Number 9: Thailand crickets
Just like coconut larvae or silkworm pupae, crickets are a dish that both provokes curiosity, but also makes people shudder when thinking about.
In the north of Thailand, Cricket is a delicious delicacy. In nature, crickets are caught and preliminarily processed, then frozen for sale to restaurants.
With ingenuity and creativity, there are dozens of unique delicacies made from crickets. In addition to the traditional fried crickets, it can also include dishes such as roasted salted crickets, grilled crickets, fried crickets with butter, crickets salad,… which are equally attractive.
Number 8: Fried cockroaches
It is a dish derived from China. If you are afraid of spiders as they are sometimes poisonous, but when it comes to cockroaches, they look horrible and even extremely dirty.
However, they are also a popular dish, for the same reason as other insects. This dish is also a specialty in many countries such as Thailand, China or Cambodia.
To be able to eat cockroaches, chefs must clean them before processing. Cockroaches are also usually fried, fried in fish sauce or grilled and served with sauces.
But many restaurants will also mix different types of insects together so that you don’t know what is the cockroach.
The richness in protein and delicious taste is what many people like in this dish. In China, people also think that cockroaches have healing effects, so many people also prefer this dish.
Number 7: Dor-beetles
The dor-beetle is a specialty of Nghe An – Vietnam. There is quite a variety of cuisines here, including the rhinoceros beetle dish that makes many people both fear and delight.
It is the largest species of beetle in this coastal region with the adult being up to 6 cm in length. When the beetle’s gut is completely clean, it can be processed into many extremely delicious and nutritious things such as sautéd with bamboo shoots or roasted to have with alcohol or eaten with rice.
Currently, the number of rhinoceros beetle is quite small, so the dish becomes very rare. Only when guests come do people bring this dish to treat.
Therefore, if you have the opportunity to visit the villages in Ky Son – Vietnam, you should try to enjoy this unique dish.
Number 6: Fried spiders
With this dish, the level of horror seems to have been raised to a new level. Fried spider is a popular dish in Cambodia. People will fry spiders in oil and sell them at street food stalls.
Usually, the size of a spider is in the hand. They belong to the Tarantula spider, one of the largest spiders in the world that I have mentioned in the previous video.
o enjoy this dish said that it tastes like chicken or cod, crunchy outside and soft inside. However, many people als, inside the spider, there are still waste, dregs or even internal organs, which may be even poisonous.
Personally, I am very afraid of this dish, so I probably will not dare to try them.
Number 5: Termites
Termite is an insect, living in flocks with thin wings, about 1 cm long body, a big belly like fresh vermicelli, and a black border around the yellow-brown body.
You absolutely can eat termites, the insects that still eat your house on a daily basis. The taste of termites is relatively appealing, along with high nutrition.
You can bake termites or fry them in oil, which will taste like chestnuts. In addition, termites can be processed into many nutritious dishes that are great remedies for the treatment of headaches, vomiting, and colds.
Number 4: Caterpillars Mopane
caterpillar belongs to the genus Gonimbrasia Belina, also known as the Emperor caterpillar. They are about the size of a cigar.
The salty-dried Mopane is one of the favorite foods in Zimbabwe and some surrounding areas in southern Africa.
This horror dish is so popular and nutritious that its trade has become a million-dollar industry, providing a fixed income for women and children.
According to nutrition experts, caterpillars have three times more protein than beef. After catching them, all intestines are removed and squeezed out.
After that, people process it by boiling it in salt water, sun-drying or smoking to increase the flavor.
Number 3: Coconut larvae in sauces
Coconut larvae live in the trunk of a coconut tree, so it is very clean and has many healthy proteins.
However, it is only about the size of an adult index finger or big toe, about 3-5 cm long with pale yellow.
Every young coconut larva is stagnant, round and soft, which makes many people scared at the outside look.
This is also a raw dish, which people also call a “coconut larvae in the river” because they swim round in a bowl of hot chili sauce.
Due to eating raw, many guests do not dare to try it, but the food is high in nutrition. Putting a crawling one into your mouth, chewing slowly to spread the nutrients in your mouth, you will feel the sweetness, just like egg yolks and cheese, which is very interesting.
And now, let’s come to the most exciting part of today’s video, which is explaining the most controversial photo.
In the photo is a centipede displayed on the plate as dishes that scare the viewer and suspect it is not real. OMG! That is the truth. This dish will be what I am about to talk.
Number 2: Roasted centipedes
Originating in China, which is famous for horror dishes such as baby rats, urine eggs…, the grilled centipede is also one of the dishes making people enjoy in scare.
Diners just need to look at this dish to be scared, not to mention eating. Once eating, it is hard to discard. Centipede is about 20 cm long, strung and grilled with salt and pepper, which are much delicious than lobster, guys.
In addition, this dish also has anti-aging effects to treat diseases such as body aches, numbness in limbs, and kidney augmentation.
Number 1: Roasted stink bugs
Referring to this multi-legged creature, most people just find it… disgusting. Still, when processed into a dish, it is extremely attractive.
Stink bugs are soaked in salt water or warm water to stimulate spraying out the stink glands from the body.
After that, the young ones will be left intact, while the bigger ones will be taken off the wings and legs, and then washed several times to clean them to roast.
A lot of people after hearing this dish will feel disgusted, but it is a very nutritious dish, especially only in the countryside of countries like Vietnam.
If you have the opportunity to visit Vietnam, please try this dish once! Until now, I am sure that you have had your own answer! Without a doubt, the insects can be processed into so many dishes.
