Further to my last post I can add to the list of new things I have eaten in China. In my last post I mentioned jellyfish and scorpion. Now I can add a big fat beetle called Zhiliao (pronounced “julia”). They can be heard in the trees making a loud noise like a power-saw.
Yummy!
Before trying them I had stop thinking about what they look like. I kept telling myself it was no worse than a prawn, just culturally ‘different’. My Chinese friends will wonder what all the fuss is about, but believe me, we do not normally eat this sort of thing in the UK.
Once I had tried one I decided I like them so much I had a lot of them.
I think I saw some of those on a film with John Hurt. As I remember, one of them burst out of his stomach when he was least expecting it.
Don’t even think of bringing those back to the office!
Take one back for my Dad. Looks like the kind of thing he’d really enjoy