Bushtucker trial

Dorothy went off to a colleague’s wedding today so the boys and I reckoned we deserved a night out too. We hit the Meihua Rd soon after 5pm looking for some action, but with the temperature still at 35degC we decided one of our local restaurants – specialising in Yunnan Rainforest cuisine – was what we needed before bedtime. We’ve been there before but hadn’t noticed the house special dish. Some friends of ours told us about it, so this time we had to have it. Deep-fried grasshoppers, baby bees, and caterpillars. Yes, really. And we demolished the lot. It’s not hard to see the attraction – how many meals have you had where you can do a life-size re-enactment of the battle of the arthropods with your food before you eat it? What do they taste like? Crunchy and salty really. And will we go there to have them again? Definitely – especially when we have visitors.

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