it is by no means unusual to feed on insects. Nowadays, insects have become high-grade dishes. According to relevant information, there are no less than 1 species of edible insects in China. This food edition introduces insect dishes in some areas.

Tianjin people like to eat grasshoppers.

In late autumn, grasshoppers are caught when their bellies are full of eggs to be laid, their wings and calves are cut off, and they are fried in oil while they are alive. It is an authentic local flavor food. Yixian, near Tianjin, has a unique eye. It exports the collected live grasshoppers to Japan as a kind of high-grade nutritious food, and has also created a lot of foreign exchange! Kill the pests, eat the delicious food, and earn the tickets, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone

people in Shandong love to eat grasshoppers

-Polygonum cuspidatum

In autumn, when Polygonum cuspidatum is pregnant and has a big belly, farmers catch it and fry it in oil to yellow, which is the most precious local delicacy. We Shandong people also like to eat scorpions. In autumn, when scorpions are dormant, they go to the countryside to turn over big stones, catch the hibernating scorpions, chop off their heads and tails, and eat them with fire or deep frying.

People in Hebei eat locusts

When there is a locust plague, people use cloth bags to cover the army of locusts flying all over the sky like rain and fog, and one cover can cover hundreds of them. The caught locusts are decapitated and fried in a frying pan, which becomes a delicious and crisp food.

Yunnan Dai people's insect feast is famous far and wide, and it smells like insects.

"cicada's back meat stuffing", "fried bamboo worms", "fried grasshoppers", "cricket mixed with sauce", "grasshopper eggs mixed with acid", "cold ground bee eggs", "sweet light wood worms" and "clear water silkworm pupa soup" are all original insect flavor dishes. A "sauce mixed with crickets" is made by removing the wings and internal organs of crickets, then chopping them into meat paste with a knife, adding seasonings such as onion, ginger and pepper, and making them purple paste. Other insect dishes made by sauce mixing method: for example, remove the wings and head and feet of cicada, steam the cicada body, chop it up and mix the spices with cicada sauce; Squeeze the hive full of young pupae by hand, mix the dripping milky white bee pupa juice and chopped residue with spices such as Polygonum multiflorum, and dip it in side dishes. It's delicious and sweet!

Guangdong's insect dishes have a unique flavor

Crispy "white-baked earthworm", fresh and fragrant "sweet-scented osmanthus cicada", "pepper and salt cricket" and "pepper and salt bamboo maggot" (bamboo tree insect pupa) taste faint, and the mystery and freshness come together. There are many kinds of insects in Cantonese cuisine recipes, such as ants, termites, scorpions, silkworm chrysalis, crickets and so on, which are fresh, sweet, spicy, crisp and tender.

There is a saying in Hainan that "three worms have one bowl of dishes"

Worms are like silkworms, which are grayish white and the length of a cigarette. Hainan people say that this insect has high nutritional value, high protein and low fat. There are two ways to eat the worm. One is to heat the chafing dish with the worm

, hold it with chopsticks

and cook it in boiling water for 5 minutes, then mix it with seasoning. The second is braised with coriander or lettuce. Three worms and lettuce can be fried into a delicious dish in the hands of Hainan chefs.

According to experts, the nutritional value of insects is extremely high. 1 grams of grasshoppers contain 21 grams of protein. As for scorpions and black ants, they are also known as the best aphrodisiac. Mexican researchers have found that adding edible insects to the diet can prevent gastrointestinal diseases and avoid malnutrition. These insects contain protein, amino acids, vitamins and minerals such as zinc, manganese and calcium which are necessary for human body. They can not only make up for the shortcomings of incomplete nutrition in ordinary foods, but also prevent gastrointestinal diseases. The report also predicts that edible insects will be the ideal food for human beings in the future.