There is a primeval forest in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, where there are towering old trees, and there are many rainy days. Everything grows in the primeval forest, including some bumblebees' pupae, locusts and dragonflies. In this plant kingdom, China eats food, yes, you guessed it right. What Xiaobian wants to talk about is the insect feast in Yunnan.
The most common insects can eat roasted spiders, crickets mixed with sauce, fried bamboo worms, fried grasshoppers, fried cicadas, fried bee pupae and fried flying ants. Xiaobian's home is in the countryside. The darkest thing I've eaten inside is fried bee pupa. It's disgusting to swarm, yellow, especially fat and soft, and it's still crawling. At that time, it was a sister next door who poked the yellow beehive on the roof of my house, stripped the beehive and put some oil in it. It was very simple. Ask me how it tastes, Xiao Bian said, it's still delicious. There is no such dark food, you just haven't eaten it. When you get used to it, believe me, you will love it.
It is said that because "Insect Eating Festivals" are held in various parts of Yunnan to attract customers, insect dishes are basically served in some restaurants in tourist areas, among which those dishes are the best! Radish and cabbage have their own tastes, and Xiaobian introduces several edible insect dishes.
the first kind is fried water dragonfly. Water dragonflies are the dragonflies you usually see. It is estimated that most people still don't know that dragonflies' larvae grow in water, and they are most often seen when fishing for shrimps in rivers and small ponds. This is a delicious food in rural areas. Worms are usually fried and eaten. So far, I don't think I have seen the worm making soup! A bug that didn't turn its head and thought it was flying in was the most deadly when it was half drunk.
It's said that this dish was popular when tea was on the ancient horse road, but Xiao Bian didn't think so. In fact, in the south, Guangxi and Guizhou, the provinces next to Yunnan, have the habit of eating dragonflies. Xiao Bian likes to catch dragonflies when he was young. He tore them directly in the middle and ate them. They look like cooked meat and taste like chicken, but they are much softer than chicken, and they are salty. Readers don't scold me, I was beaten when I was young. After frying, it is crispy and fragrant, chewy and delicious. Don't think that Shanghai small animals are basically pests in the water, and the newly hatched fry are basically eaten by water dragonflies.
2. Fried grasshoppers are the most common insects. There is a joke that the neighboring countries next door are not suffering from insects. The netizen on the internet said that we can help you eat the travel expenses. I am afraid that the grasshoppers in any of your provinces are not enough for us to eat. There is a direct dynamic on the Internet. In a province in China, the local people are all grasshoppers with fishing nets in the sky. Compared with the monologue in the heart of grasshoppers, I don't want to come to China in the future. I don't know which country is suffering from locust plague now, and China said that it can help you solve it.
Eating locusts is never said to hurt animals. Do you think it can help other countries solve problems?
3. Fried bamboo worms. Bamboo worms grow specially in the Bamboo Festival and are fried to eat. The worms growing in bamboo are cleaner than those growing in the soil. Xiaobian thinks so. For insects, Xiaobian used to trample them to death when she was young, especially all kinds of grasshoppers. When you pull its thighs, she shoots a disgusting liquid from her ass, which is really afraid to eat!
A brief introduction to bamboo worms is that they live in bamboo tubes, also called bamboo bees, and specialize in eating the most tender parts of bamboo tips. Finally, hide in a bamboo tube and wait to become a pupa. Eating stick insects has always been the most distinctive food of the Dai people in Yunnan. The general practice is frying, and the fried bamboo worms are fragrant and crisp.
4. Fried flying ants
Flying ants are a rare food in Yunnan, and it is difficult to find them in the Woods. Only when it rains heavily, especially in the rainy season in July and August, flying ants with wings will turn out of the ant hole, and generally they will get a nest when they see flying ants. In Yunnan, they just set up a pot and fry flying ants directly in the pot.
The most unheard-of thing in Xiaobian is the flying ant. This kind of thing is only found in the mountains of Yunnan, and it is generally difficult to see. There are many things to eat in the countryside, such as fried spiders, raw scorpions, and cold ant eggs. It's strange that there are so many eggs that ants can get cold. The strangest thing Xiao Bian has seen is that in Africa, some people catch mosquitoes. Yes, they are annoying mosquitoes in summer. I just watched him knead them into balls and fry them in oil and eat them. It's very strange. What strange food is there in your hometown? You can leave a message and tell Xiaobian.