Chapter 872 Bamboo Insect

Author: Erzi Congzhou

Chapter 872 Bamboo Insect

Bamboo wasps are actually the larvae of bamboo weevils. In fact, bamboo weevils can be eaten from larvae, pupae, and adults. The larvae have the best taste, followed by pupae, then the worms before pupation, and the adults come last.

Adult insects can also play. Two insects are strung head to tail on a bamboo stick, and a thread is tied in the middle of the bamboo stick. The two insects will spin when they flap their wings, turning them into a "windmill" toy.

Foodies like this food very much, mainly in Yunnan Province. People in central Guizhou love to eat it. In later generations, there was a "big case" in which foodies smuggled tons of bamboo insects into the country from the border.

Jiachuan is located at the junction of three provinces, and its eating habits are also greatly influenced by the two places. For example, spices commonly used in central Yunnan and Guizhou such as wood ginger oil and fish coriander are also common on the dining tables of Jiachuan people.

The custom of eating insects is not very obvious. It is mostly liked by children in rural areas. Adults are a little embarrassed to hide it. At most, they can get some silkworm chrysalises and bee pupae to beat the teeth of their children as a memorial ceremony. Ten years later, they will be fried in various tourist attractions.

The situation of selling insects is different.

This thing grows in the heart of Tianzhu. What real indigenous children like most is to eat it raw. When Yang He ate the cream cake for the first time at Zhou Zhi's house, he once asked if it was made of bamboo insects.

According to him, the taste of raw bamboo worms is only lighter than cream and not so sweet. In the eyes of children who lacked oily and meaty snacks in the past few years, it is a first-class snack.

And I heard that it is very nourishing, but Zhou Zhi has not had the courage to eat it raw.

Bamboo insects are actually not difficult to find. When young bamboo becomes withered and yellow, there are still insect holes on it, so they usually don't escape.

This place is about ten miles away from the villages and towns on both sides. Usually no one comes here. There is a lack of management. There are still a lot of old and yellow bamboos.

Soon the other end of the forest remembered Zhang Lu and Fang Wenyu's yelling. Zhou Zhi smiled at Yang He and said, "It's probably because Xiang Yusheng ate insects that scared them."

"It's really delicious." Yang He said, "Why don't you try it? I guarantee that you won't be afraid if you try it once. It just tastes like cream without sugar."

"If you keep saying that, don't even think about eating puffs, and I won't buy any in the future." Zhou Zhi gave an ultimatum: "Every time I do this, I'm trying to persuade me to drink hair and blood, and now I don't like eating anything with cream."

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There is a lot of galangal under the bamboo forest, and if you cut open the young yellow bamboo, you will find dozens of white insects in one section.

Yang He stretched out two fingers as chopsticks, picked out a few and put them in his mouth: "It's great to come to Xiang Yu's house and have this kind of food."

Zhou Zhi felt a little disgusted when he saw it: "Why doesn't your house have a bamboo forest? It's also by the river, isn't it?"

"My family is short of food, and some of it is eaten by the chickens." Yang He smacked his lips as if aftertaste, and took out a few more and put them in his mouth: "Who doesn't like good meat?"

"Hahahaha... Let's see if the girls like it then." For some reason, Zhou Zhi seemed to have gone back to the days when he put bugs in the pencil boxes of female classmates in junior high school.

Once a bamboo insect is found, there will be a nest of at least dozens of them. Soon the two teams have collected dozens of "insect rice dumplings".

In order to make it easier to carry, Yang He lit a fire and used it to lift the bamboo tube, roasting the insects inside before taking it out.

As soon as the insects died, Zhou Zhi became bolder and dared to taste a few even if they were not fully cooked. When he saw the expressions of surprise and then joy on the faces of Fang Wenyu and Zhang Lu, he even greeted like the old capital people: "Have you eaten yet?"

Zhang Lu cupped his hands and said, "I've eaten. Where are you?"

It was already afternoon when we returned to Xiang Yu's house. It was rare that the girls didn't have boys making noises, and they were playing the game of "picking bamboo sticks" around the table.

This game is actually quite fun. People of Zhou's generation who ate popsicles when they were young would save the popsicle sticks and dye them in various colors as game props.

When playing, just hold a bamboo stick in your hand and put it on the table, then let go and let the bamboo sticks fall apart. Most of the bamboo sticks will stack on top of each other.

When playing, you use your hands or bamboo sticks to pick out the selected bamboo sticks. Except for this bamboo stick, you cannot move the rest, otherwise it will not count.

If the rest of the flying bamboo sticks are not affected, the flying bamboo stick belongs to you. The person with the most bamboo sticks in the end wins.

It is very easy to get bamboo sticks in the countryside, and this game is quite popular.

Bamboo worms are very clean, and you don’t even need to wash them. They are straight after being roasted. Now you just need to add them to the pot, stir them over low heat, and bake them to remove the moisture.

Bake until dry and golden, add some cooked oil to moisten it, sprinkle with pepper and salt, mix well and eat.

"Come on, here's the good food!" Zhou Zhi went into the kitchen and tinkered for a while, then came out with a large plate of bamboo worms and put it on the table: "Let's eat together!"

"Ah——" Liang Hong and Guan Tingting were so frightened that they both jumped up. Guan Tingting slapped Zhou Zhi hard: "Brother Elbow, what the hell! I'm giving you goosebumps!"

On the contrary, Zhang Xinyi and Jiang Shuyi were emotionally stable. Zhou Zhi couldn't help but wonder: "Hey, why aren't you two afraid?"

"Should we be afraid?" Zhang Xinyi picked up a bamboo insect: "You are a bad guy. Fortunately, Xinxin has brought it to us a long time ago. This is also a specialty of their place."

"Hey, I didn't expect that." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Did she bring alive or dead?"

Jiang Shuyi rolled her eyes at Zhou Zhi: "But it seems that Xinxin's family is very oily, so you can't do this better than Zhou Zhi."

"I learned this from Master Zhang." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "You can also do this with fried peanuts. It saves fuel and is not greasy. This trick is master-level and is worth at least tens of thousands of yuan."

"You can just blow!" Liang Hong was shocked: "Xinyi Shuyi, is this really delicious?"

"Yeah, it's delicious." Zhang Xinyi has been going to traditional Chinese medicine shops since he was a child. He has seen a lot of strange snakes and insects, and he is the one who is least afraid of insects.

Jiang Shuyi also nodded: "Liang Hong, Tingting, don't be afraid, you will never forget it once you taste it."

"You guys eat first." Zhou Zhi said, "I'll make two more dishes with dried chili shreds, and I'll have a drink with Dad Xiang in the evening."

"It seems to taste good, not as chewy as dried shrimps, but sweeter than dried shrimps."

"Speaking of this, I seriously doubt that an ancient legend came from a comparison with the taste of dried shrimps."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Lu knew Zhou Zhi was going to tell another little story that most people didn't know, so he quickly joined in.

"That's it." Zhou Zhi said: "The locust disaster was very terrible in ancient times, so some people studied it. In the end, everyone believed that the cause of the locust disaster was related to water."

"In years of severe drought, or when the floods recede, it is very easy for these retreated lands to breed a large number of locusts the next year, eventually turning into a locust plague."

"Therefore, in many notes of the ancients, it was believed that locusts were transformed from shrimps. Shrimps lived on the tidal flats. When the water receded, they did not follow the water. If they wanted to continue to survive, they had to burrow into the soil and finally turned into locusts."

"I feel that apart from observing natural phenomena, the two are somewhat similar in taste, which is probably also an important reason why the ancients linked them together."

"It seems to make sense?" Zhang Lu grabbed a handful of bamboo insects and put them in his mouth.
Chapter completed!