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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:

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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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isa

lol, she gagged
Chris Rodriguez

those insects didn’t look so tasty.
edwardhasnewgoggles

Not my cup of tea ><
concerned Filipino

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.

The Overthinker

That and the fact that cockroach steaks are tiny.

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

concerned Filipino

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.
ponta

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.

The Overthinker

Did she bug you to try them?
ponta

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

Mister M

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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