Chapter 873 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 and before pupation. The worms come first, 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 to hold it up. The two insects will spin when they flap their wings, turning into a "windmill" Toy.
Foodies like this very much, mainly people from Yunnan Province and central Guizhou. In later generations, there was a "major case" of foodies smuggling 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, wood ginger oil, fish and coriander, which are commonly used seasonings in central Yunnan and Guizhou, are also on the dining tables of Jiachuan people. Always available.
The custom of eating insects is not very obvious. It is more popular among rural children. 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, there will be bombs in every tourist attraction. The situation with insect sales 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 from bamboo insects. of.
According to him, the taste of raw bamboo worms is only lighter than cream and not so sweet. In the hearts 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 tonic, but Zhou Zhi still doesn’t have the courage to eat it raw.
Bamboo insects are actually not difficult to find. The young bamboo is dry and yellow, and there are still insect eyes on it, so they usually don’t escape.
This place is about ten miles away from the villages and towns on both sides. Under normal circumstances, no one comes here. There is a lack of management. There are still many 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 bugs 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."< br>
“If you say that again, you will never have any puffs to eat, and I won’t buy any in the future.” Zhou Zhi gave an ultimatum: “Every time I make this, it just persuades me to drink hair and blood, and now I don’t like eating them. There is something with butter.”
There is a lot of galangal under the bamboo forest. If you cut open the yellow and tender bamboo, you will find dozens of white worms 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 looked a little disgusted: "What? There is no bamboo forest at Diyou’s house, right?” Eat it." Yang He smacked his lips as if he was savoring it, then took out a few more and put them in his mouth: "Who doesn't like good meat?"
"Hahahaha... look at the girls then. Do you like it or not?" 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 bamboo insects are found, there will be a nest of at least dozens of them. Soon the two teams 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, and roasted the insects to death inside before taking it out.
Zhou Zhi became cowardly as soon as the insects died. He dared to taste a few even if they were not fully cooked. When he saw the expressions of surprise and then joy on Fang Wenyu and Zhang Lu’s faces, he even greeted like the old capital people: "Eat it." "Have you eaten?"
Zhang Lu handed over his hand: "Have eaten, where are you?"
It was already afternoon when we returned to Xiang Yu's house, and it was rare for the girls to not have boys making noises. , are playing the game of "picking bamboo sticks" around the table.
This game is actually quite fun. People of Zhou Zhi’s generation had eaten popsicles when they were young, so they 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 pick out the selected bamboo sticks with your hands or bamboo sticks. Except for this bamboo stick, you cannot drive 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. This game is relatively 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, stir well and eat.
“Come on, come on, the good food is here!” 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 jumped up in fright. Guan Tingting slapped Zhou Zhi hard: "Brother Elbow, this thing is giving you goosebumps! !"
On the contrary, Zhang Xinyi and Jiang Shuyi were in a stable mood. Zhou Zhi couldn't help but wonder: "Hey, why aren't you two afraid?"
"Should we be afraid?" 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 this." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Did she bring alive or dead?"
Jiang Shuyi rolled her eyes at Zhou Zhi: "But it seems that the Xinxin family is very oily, and you don't have Zhou Zhi." It’s good to do this.”
“I learned this from Master Zhang,” Zhou Zhi said with a smile, “This can also be done with fried peanuts. It saves fuel and is not greasy. This is a master's trick, worth at least tens of thousands of dollars."
"You can do it!" Liang Hong was shocked: "Xin Yi Shuyi, is this really delicious?" br>
"Yes, 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 once."
"You guys eat first." Zhou Zhi said, "I'll make two more dishes. Shredded dried chili, I drank with Dad at night.”
“It seems to taste good, not as chewy as dried shrimps.” , but sweeter than dried shrimps."
"Speaking of this, I seriously doubt that the ancient legend comes from the comparison with the taste of dried shrimps."
"What do you mean?" Zhang Lu knew that Zhou Zhi was going to tell a 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."
"Big In drought years, or when the floods recede, these retreated lands will easily breed a large number of locusts the next year, eventually turning into a locust plague."
"Therefore, in many notes of the ancients, it is said. It is believed that locusts are transformed from shrimps. Shrimps live on the tidal flats. When the water recedes, they do not follow the water. If they want to continue to survive, they have to burrow into the soil and eventually become locusts."
"I think there is no other way than observation. It's a natural phenomenon. The two tastes are somewhat similar, which is probably an important reason why the ancients associated them. "It seems to make sense?" Zhang Lu grabbed a handful of bamboo insects and put them in his mouth.
(End of this chapter)