The Most Weird Food I Have Ever Tried
There are a variety of foods all over the world. The categories of food vary from region to region and from country to country. A majority of the foods are seemed to be ordinary to people as the materials of these foods are common. For the rest which regarded as strange foods, they generally contain unusual materials. Most of the weird foods are quite popular in their respective region. The following three kinds of foods introduced are the weirdest foods I have ever eaten.
Firstly, I want to mention the wood worm that I have tried when I was a child. Wood worm refers to the worm living in wood and maintaining its life by eating wood. After cutting down from the mountain, woods are piled up in the yard. If it is quiet enough, you can hear the sound of eating wood which is made by wood worms. Most people may feel uncomfortable when they see a wood worm, as it looks disgusting with a fat, soft and white body and dark brown or black head. What is worse, the wood worm grows in sections, which makes it look like a maggot. The biggest wood worm I have seen is as long and thick as man’s finger. A wood worm has very small feet that cannot be easily seen by people and has no bones, which enables people to eat a wood worm in a convenient way. Without any other work, people only need to roast a wood worm over fire until it is golden. The roasted wood worm smells great, so you can imagine how delicious it tastes. Wood worms can also be used as traditional Chinese medicine. Eating wood worms is beneficial for people’s liver, helps to reduce fat, promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, and has positive effect to insomniacs. So wood worms are nutritious food, but also weird food as well.
Yingshan Fang
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