In today's view
"Eating worms" is very curious
It means excitement and challenge
But actually
Eating insects is traditional in many places
And delicious and healthy
Many scholars believe
Before nomadic, animal husbandry, farming matures
Humans generally eat insects
Because of the early hunter-gatherer lifestyle
Access to food is not stable
And insects are a good nutritional supplement
But eating bugs is not entirely out of scarcity
Yunnan insect feast, rich and diverse ingredients
From ancient times to the present
There is no shortage of expensive and well-served insect delicacies
Like the Zhou Dynasty's "Oyster Sauce"
It's a sauce made from ant eggs
Not only a tribute to sacrifice
It is also a delicacy in Tianzi's food list
In the Han Dynasty, it was popular among the nobility to eat cicadas
It was because it was delicious
And now with the help of scientific analysis, discoveries
The protein content of most edible insects
Far more than meat, eggs, and milk
It also contains a variety of vitamins
Calcium, potassium, phosphorus, zinc and other trace elements
So delicious
It should not be seen only in terms of curiosity
Yunnan
It's about the types, patterns, and hardcores of the insects
Probably no place dares to argue with Yunnan
It is said to be in Yunnan
More than 2,000 species of edible insects can be eaten
"Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan"
There are sayings that "three grasshoppers are a dish" and "moving is meat"
It's also fully demonstrated
Yunnan people love to eat, dare to eat, eat everything spirit.
Especially in places with large ethnic minorities
Eating insects is commonplace
Insect feast in Lijiang, Yunnan
In Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture
The local Kino people
There is a unique insect dish with a unique flavor
Bun burn mountain spider
It is a dish of the Kino ethnic group
The method is to remove the mountain spider from the silk and feet
Mash with salt, ginger, chili pepper and garlic
Place in a bamboo tube and wrap it in plantains
Place on a charcoal fire and bake
Although the live mountain spider is a bit scary
It is oblong, gray-black, and has spots on the back
But it's spicy and delicious when it's roasted
The acceptance of bee pupae is relatively high
Can be stir-fried and fried
The approach is very diverse
Like bee pupae omelette, bee pupa flower seed soup, bee pupa lettuce bun and so on
The texture is a bit like a fried crispy shrimp
High in protein, low in fat
It can be eaten in Many places in Guangxi And Yunnan
Spicy bee pupae
The scientific name is coffee extinction ridge tiger tianniu
Woodworms
It is a pest that harms Chinese coffee trees and many trees
Its larvae feed on wood
Kind of like a big green worm, but white
It is a famous dish of wa people to entertain distinguished guests
The pronunciation of the wood worm is similar to that of the "wealth worm"
Therefore, it also has the auspicious meaning of getting rich and prosperous
Usually fried and eaten
Especially suitable for drinking
Fried woodworms
There are "three grasshoppers and one dish" in "Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan"
The recipe for grasshoppers is simple and delicious
First pass through a boiling water
Then remove the wings
Suitable for roasting and frying, it is crispy and delicious
Or soak in wine and drink
It can also be pickled and eaten
Fried grasshoppers
Many places in Yunnan have a "Feast of a Thousand Worms"
A rich dish is full of insects
In recent years, with the development of tourism
and increased public acceptance
Many ethnic minority cultures, tourist areas flourish
Like Lijiang, Xishuangbanna can eat
Guangdong, Guangxi
It is said that Cantonese people eat everything
Guangxi is not left behind
Both places are great places to eat insects
Lingnan is rich in lychees
Old Lingnan people all know about lychee bugs
It is a pest that inhabits lychee trees
Its urine is toxic
Kids love to grab and play
To make it, you usually have to soak in warm water first
Let it drain the urine
Then turn around, wings, claws
Then the oil bursts
Legend has it that eating it prevents children from wetting the bed
Don't look at it as a bug
Due to the excellent effect of pest control in recent years
In fact, there are many fewer lychee bugs than ever before
Even the price rose to a few hundred dollars a pound
Lychee bugs
Spicy seeds are a delicacy of the Guangxi people
It is a pest that bites at green plants
Its adult appearance makes people's scalps tingle
And stings are particularly painful
Adults
However, eating is not eating adult worms
Edible is its uncubated, shelled pupae
Commonly known as the foreign spicy can
Grill over a fire
The shell will burst open
The flesh of the worm is exposed
The texture is soft and sticky, and the taste is fresh and fragrant
The price is not cheap
Spicy cans
Dragon lice commonly known as "water cockroaches"
It is more common in Wuzhou and Lingnan, Guangxi
The Ming Dynasty Zhaochun's "Five Miscellaneous Tricks" states:
Min has dragon lice, flying in the water field, and is no different from the stove worm
Stove worms are cockroaches
So dragon lice do look a little scary
But it is not actually a species of cockroaches
There are usually two ways to eat "Wataru" and "Pepper and Salt Dragon Lice"
Washo dragon lice is pickled and steamed in water
Pretzel dragon lice are seared and fried and mixed with pepper salt
Eating dragon lice starts with peeling off the two hard wings on its back
Gently swirl its head with your thumb and forefinger
Remove its intestines
This way there will be no odor
Dragon lice
Osmanthus cicadas are insects that live in water
Also known as water knows
It resembles cicadas, but does not belong to the cicada family
It is a hemiptera of the family Tortoise
Habits are fierce
Feeds on small fish and shrimp, snail meat and tadpoles
Because it tastes like osmanthus flowers
Hence the name
A common practice is the brine osmanthus cicada
Among them, the female osmanthus cicada is large and thick in fat
But the scent of the male osmanthus cicada is even better
Osmanthus cicada
Osmanthus cicada + dragon lice platter, does it look very dark?
Bamboo worms that grow up eating sweet bamboo fibers
It is a larvae that weevils lay eggs and hatch in moth holes on bamboo shoots
Can be found in bamboo tubes
On the palate it is delicate and creamy
There are up to four classic ways to eat:
Stir-fry, stir-fry, salt and pepper, simmer
There is also a special Cantonese way of eating "soy sauce emperor baked bamboo worm"
Guangning, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, is the home of bamboo
The bamboo insects here are very famous
In addition, it is also common in Nanning, Baise and Guilin in Guangxi
Bamboo worms
Jiangsu, Shandong, Northeast
DouDan is a famous delicacy in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province
It is also found in Shandong and Northeast China
The scientific name is bean moth
It is green throughout
Feeds on bean leaves
Guanyun in Lianyungang is a famous soybean town
In turn, large-scale bean farming was derived
If you see someone squatting on the side of the road
Roll out a lot of green juice on the cutting board
Then they must be rolling out the bean dan
Bean dan can be made into many different dishes
Among them, the green vegetable bean soup is very delicious
Granulation, also known as maggots
Hygiene can be ensured by artificial farming
It is fed with bran, brown sugar and formula
Other than that
There is also a more traditional method of granulation culture in Yunnan
It is to hoist the meat with the seasoning
Let the meat naturally grow maggots
Collect maggots when they grow up
And eating maggots has actually existed since ancient times
The Compendium of Materia Medica refers to maggots as "Luo Xian Zi"
The maggots in "Dream of the Red Chamber" are called "meat shoots"
In addition to the regular frying and roasting
There is also a dish called "Spring Tide Surge"
Live maggots are eaten cold with white wine
You will see granulation squirming in the wine
It's up to you to eat or not
granulation
Tohoku barbecue is famous
But many people don't know that silkworm pupae is one of the major features
The scientific name is tulip silkworm
It is larger than the average silkworm and has a full flesh
It is after the silkworm spits silk cocoon
A pupa that becomes in a cocoon
Silkworms were first raised to produce silk
Later people found it delicious
Silkworms are now farmed in the northeast
Mostly for consumption
Northeast roasted silkworm pupae
In addition to the above
Shandong and Northeast China will actually fry a lot of bugs to eat
Like cicadas, locusts, scorpions, silkworm pupae and so on
The insect feast in Wenden, Shandong is also famous
It's all routine operation
As long as the psychological threshold is passable
You will discover a new world of gastronomy
Prepared centipede ingredients
Resources
< bugs that cannot be rejected >, Chinese Heritage, January 2019, Amike
< Lychee Bugs and Lychee >, Museum, August 2020, yinger
topic
What worms have you eaten?
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