These who see the dish for the first time will be astonished. However, Dai, Jingpo and De’ang people living in Dehong Prefecture still keep the tradition of cooking dish with such insects like ant eggs, bamboo worm, bee pupa and spider. It, with sweet smell lingering between diner’s lips and teeth, is absolutely a good dish to go well with wine. Visitors can have a try if you are bold enough. It is indeed nourishing.
It is one of the 18 oddities in Yunnan to cook insects. But it's likely to upset newcomers to be treated with any of these ‘weird’ dishes. Ethnic minorities such as Hani, Dai, Jingpo and Deang in Honghe, Dehong and Xishuangbanna prefectures have been holding the insect-eating habit for a long time. Ant eggs, bamboo worms, grasshoppers, larvas, chrysalis and even golden spiders all can be prepared as delicacies. Unacceptable and maybe terrifying, these dishes surprisingly turn out to be nutritious and goluptious. And they normally go with liquor and wine though one needs any way courage to have a try when in Yunnan.
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