Hi! Part of the reason I’ve been absent from the blog for the past month is that I had a business trip in Thailand. The conference itself was for a week (and exhuasting, but that’s another story)… but I tend to crave a bit of adventure in my life. So I decided to travel by land to get there! Maybe I’ll tell ya some stories later about that…..But now onto the grasshoppers!
No sense in waffling about things, let me tell it straight. People eat some stuff in Asia that most of us in the west would consider pretty weird. Most of ya from my home town would say disgusting. Well, I like to try new things, so…. Please pass the grasshopper!
(crunch, crunch, anyone got some chai to go with this?)
Okay, the picture quality is pretty bad….So let’s look at the before shot:
How did it taste? Kinda crispy! The smaller ones were okay, but the big ol’ man eating size was a bit much for me…. What’s the overall verdict? Well, I think I can say in all honesty that it’s not going to become a favorite snack for me… 🙂
And no, I didn’t try the silk worms that you see next to the grasshoppers. You’ve got to draw the line somewhere, right?
There’s a restaurant up on the north end of Kunming that has a sampler plate–bees, bamboo worms, pig intestines and cashews. For some reason we had leftovers for everything except the cashews….
🙂
I think it would be the same for me.. I have had yak intestines. It wasn’t a dare, it was a surprise. Not something I would intentially repeat!