After I posted a video about tilling grasshoppers for both cheeks, I was asked to tell in more detail how they taste. Therefore, a brief sketch on this topic. On something original I do not pretend, but I’m sure not everyone tried, and not everyone knows about it “food product”. Before that, I already wrote several posts about food, if someone is interested: Thai cafes and street food, Thai supermarkets, Thai markets.
There is an opinion that Thais eat grasshoppers and other crawling and flying animals almost every day, and this is their traditional the dish is. Strange, but I have a completely opposite conclusion. I I saw that grasshoppers are sold only in places where tourists gather, and the feeling is that it is for us, not for them. Also read that in some provinces at one time had a famine, and there to replenish the squirrel began to breed insects. It may well be that once so it was, but judging by the price, it is cheaper to eat meat a piece than these with paws. In the markets, of course, they should be cheaper, but I’m there have not seen.
So, what is the taste of these creatures? I tried only small ones grasshoppers and larvae (or they were caterpillars). And decided only a couple of years after seeing them for the first time. All the same people ask, groups have already started driving around Thailand, most interesting, but such a gap remains. But big grasshoppers, beetles huge, similar to cockroaches, and all sorts of scorpions there, I master could not, too scary. So, the taste is always almost the same, regardless of the name of the “product”, and recalls the most ordinary potato chips, the same salty and crunchy. Worth just eat the first grasshopper, the barrier breaks, you stop being afraid and crack them further. That is, if you grind the insect in powder, in order to eliminate the terrible look, and give a try, it is unlikely you distinguish from salty chips chips.
Big and scary
Last winter we only took pictures of them.
And this time I decided to try them.
Andrei demonstrates how he likes grasshoppers
There is one truth but that I also encountered a little later. If grasshoppers were not completely dried (or too much sprinkled with the sauce that they became wet), then they still appear own taste, and because of this you begin to understand what you eat. Hmmm, feeling so-so, in my opinion. Perhaps because I initially, not a fan of “live” food. Well, the sauce was clearly not the same.
The prices of insects fluctuate. Grasshoppers and larvae – 20-50 baht for bag, scorpions – 50-100 baht apiece.
And a short video about how it all just gets done, not one Muscle did not flinch on the face of the action participants 
P.S. Who else tried, share your impressions?
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