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Japanese reporter eats insects

One of NTV’s reporters in Beijing goes to a local food shop and tries to eat cicada on a stick:

13 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 11, 2008 at 7:38 am

Categories: Japanese TV, Odd / Strange Tags: 2008, Beijing, china, chinese, japan, japanese girl, olympics

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Comment by isa

2008-08-11 22:25:08

lol, she gagged

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Comment by Chris Rodriguez

2008-08-12 03:52:49

those insects didn’t look so tasty.

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Comment by edwardhasnewgoggles

2008-08-12 04:02:47

Not my cup of tea ><

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Comment by concerned Filipino

2008-08-12 23:19:42

Of course, there’s really nothing wrong with eating insects. They’re not naturally any dirtier than other animals. And thanks to loss of energy as you go up the food chain, insects are actually more nutritious proportional to their weight than other animals. Some insects actually have more protein, relatively speaking, than beef. It’s simply cultural bias to think there’s something wrong with eating them.

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Comment by The Overthinker

2008-08-12 23:37:27

That and the fact that cockroach steaks are tiny.

Anyway, the Japanese are no strangers to bug eating either.

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Comment by concerned Filipino

2008-08-13 00:29:26

Guess these just weren’t the same kind of insects they’re used to then.

By the way, if the cockroach steaks are tiny, then just add more of them. Though I think I’d like silkworm better, myself.

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Comment by ponta

2008-08-13 21:16:32

I ate grasshopper and silkworms boiled in sweetened soy sauce　the other day.(inago to kaiko no tsukudani). A woman in her 70’s gave it to
me, saying she used to eat them during the war. They were not bad.

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Comment by The Overthinker

2008-08-13 23:54:46

Did she bug you to try them?

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Comment by ponta

2008-08-14 06:19:29

Nah, but she bugged out for some reason immediately after she gave it to me.

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Comment by Mister M

2008-08-13 11:14:14

I would rather eating Japanese and Korean food than food from China because I want to make sure that Im eating somenthing good and healthy.

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