In Chiang Mai, Thailand, there is a famous dish called fried water bugs. This adult water bug is about 10 centimeters long and is a very popular dish in Thailand.
Perhaps you don’t feel so disgusted at this point. But when it comes to the food of the water bug, you will definitely feel goosebumps all over your body, because it grows up eating mosquitoes.
This is also a special snack in Chiang Mai, Thailand - fried bamboo worms. Using this dish with sticky rice is a local favorite. The picture shows a street vendor making fried bamboo worms.
This dish looks more harmonious than the others, but what you don’t know is that the bugs on these pastries are all alive!
In other words, every time you eat a small pastry, you are swallowing a bug alive, and you can feel the bug squirming in your mouth.
There is no explanation for this dish, it’s a pot full of worms. When you see flesh bugs that look like maggots, you will immediately get goosebumps.
However, many places in Thailand use it to make delicious food, and it is said that it is very nutritious.
Although to us ordinary people, these dishes made with insects look disgusting. But unexpectedly, this insect food was selected as the functional food with the most development potential in this century.
The global climate is getting warmer and the world’s population is growing. Some experts have called on “meat eaters” to switch to eating insects and look forward to the vigorous promotion of insect foods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In this regard, Professor Arnold Hess, a world entomologist, once said: "We should eat insects, not steaks and sausages.