Insects are crunchy. That’s just how the things are. If insects weren’t crunchy, then they would be arachnids, or maybe some sort of sluggalia. If it is crunchy, however, you could not say that it is an insect. If it is on a stick, and/or bought on a street stall, then it probably is an insect. You can also associate crunchy things with insects. Like bee cocoons. Crunchy, as bee cocoons should be. Of course, you can have your choice of spices, although some culinary artists say that is cheating, to make your insect/bee cocoon/other crunchy item yours. Such spices include: poisoning peppers (see next entry), salt, cardamom, and other USFE (Unidentified Stuff For Eating) that create your insect/bee cocoon/other crunchy item into a tasty crunchy item on a stick. And if you see bee cocoons on a first stall, wait until you get to a couple stalls over, because the first is the most expensive.
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USFE. Yes, I've eaten a fair amount of that. Sometimes, when it comes to meat items, they even call it USFE right on the menu (except they use the word "offal").
ReplyDeleteWhile this seems intimidating to the eater, compare it to our phenomenon back in the states of "edible food-like substances" (processed foods that have some ancestry that includes a grain or other common food, but that now have no recognizable taste other than heavy doses of corn syrup, cane sugar, or other government-subsidized sweetener).
By the way, wasn't it fun to stay so close to Wangfujing street. It was so cool to be able to say, "Hey, wan't to pop back down to Wangfujing lu to catch some fried scorpion, or the book shop, or...")?"
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