The other weird food I have tried before is bamboo insect. Judging from the name, we can know it is a kind of insect living in bamboo and absorbing nutrients from bamboo. The color of most parts of a bamboo insect’s body is golden. There are several black patterns on its winds. With a long mouth shaped in a straw, a bamboo insect can easily suck juice out of bamboo. Like the wood worm, it is easy for people to cook a bamboo insect. The most common way to deal with it is to roast it over fire. Bamboo
Bamboo insects can also be fried, which needs more procedures. As a bamboo insect eats nothing but bamboo and bamboo juice for its whole life, which contains relatively high protein content that is also needed for human beings. Therefore, eating one bamboo insect provides the same protein as eating many bamboo shoots.
Feathered egg is the last one on my list of weird foods I have eaten. It is a developing chicken embryo that is boiled and eaten by people in the shell. These eggs have the same outer appearances with ordinary eggs. They differ from the ordinary ones in the contents which contain yolk and young chicks. Another difference between feathered eggs and ordinary eggs lies in the way of eating. People always peel all of ordinary egg’s shell so as to eat it, but nothing of feathered egg can be eaten if all of its shell has been peeled. The correct way to eat a feathered egg is to softly knock a hole on the shell and suck the chicken sauce in the first place. Then suck the chicken. At last, peel the whole shell, there is only yolk remained, and people usually eat it with salt and pepper. The feathered egg is well known not only for its contents but also for the nutrition it can provide. It has a lower content of fat and cholesterol, and contains high content of amino acid, taurine and mineral substances.
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