1 post tagged “pupae”

I'm sitting here eating silkworm pupae.  I'd been curious for awhile now, and today I just decided to go to the Korean grocery and see if they had them.  Blam!  They were on the shelf with the tuna, pretty much the first pile of canned stuff you see when you walk to the aisle.  The ones I got are those ones toward the bottom of that page I linked.  "Silkworm Pupa in Seasoned Sauce".

Anyway, it's a not-unpleasant flavour.  Kind of nutty, with a lingering flavour I haven't yet figured out how to describe.  I decided to just taste them as if I'd been handed one and didn't know what it was and had no reason to suspect it was a bug.  Not that I'm particularly squeamish, anyway.

I also bought some frozen ones later, when we went to the bigger Asian grocery for some of their delicious variety of fake meat products.  I don't know what to do with them, but they were cheap.  I was thinking maybe stir-fry with some vegetables.

So, anyway, I'm sitting here eating a bowl of silkworm pupae in seasoned sauce.  With a fork.
I just now took my first sip of scotch for the evening.  Not a bad combination.  Probably a necessary combination for a lot of people trying this particular delicacy.