Imagine a place where in addition to the usual kernel and Fish category on a dinner party card , you had your option from Insects and Amphibians . If you grew up with it , you probably would n’t recall it unusual in the slightest . In fact , some 1,700 species of bugs are eaten in more than 100 country around the world .
That ’s what the waiter at Typhoon restaurant in Santa Monica tell me when he saw my jaw drop-off into my overlap upon skim their menu ( ants , sea worms , and frogs ' legs are just a few of the delicacies they feature ) . And no , I was n’t really feeling squeamish , just taken by surprisal . Of of course , I know insects were consume back in ancient Greece and Rome . In fact , the first C Roman scholar Pliny write that blue blood enjoyed beetle larvae . And in one of his writings , Aristotle described the ideal time to harvest cicada for the undecomposed gustation .
And , sure , I ’d hear about masses eating dog in parts of China ( check out outthis vid herefor proof — however , not for the dim - of - center ) . And , sure , I even know people justly here in this country who like to eat things like turtle soup , or shark ( thresher shark sandwiches are a raw material atthis Naples , Florida restaurant ) , but the point on Typhoon ’s menu really knocked the steer out of me for a instant . And made me curious as to what else I could find on some menus around the world . Here are the results :
1. Scorpions
To insects , all species of Scorpio the Scorpion are poisonous and unremarkably mortal . But only a very small-scale identification number of the more than 1,000 known species can be dangerous to humans . In Singapore , where Scorpions are eat on most often , the bug are usually fried and then skewered . Some eatery , however , will assist them on a clump of batter white fish , tempura - style .
2. Grasshoppers
3. Locusts
4. Maguey Worms
5. Crickets
What ’s the strange thing you ’ve ever consume and where did you have it ? Would you hear it again ?
