Do cicadas bother you? Eat. The Chinese recipe

In the hot summer – you know it – the cicadas breed quickly. For the Hangzhou Chinese, the eastern city is a problem because the canterins kill the trees where they stay when the heat arrives. Someone is so exasperated that he decided to make a call in a local newspaper – Dushi Kuaibao – inviting locals to eat them. Fried, of course. This is reported by the South China Morning Post.

You are called Sun Xiaoping and is the official responsible for the protection of the environment. Between July and August, female cicadas produce more than 100 eggs each time. The trees, infested, die, scrutinize Sun. "Every summer we ask our staff to help us get them – he said – but we can not do it alone, so we ask those who like to eat insects to help us out." [19659003InAsiaitisnotuncommontoeatinsectsconsideredtobehighinproteinRecentlyhehastalkedalotaboutthemega-breedingofbadroachestheliquidofwhichisusedintraditionalmedicinetoproducehealingpotionsofvarioustypessomeofwhicharealsorelatedtolongevityInBeijingwestofWangfujingthepedestrianshoppingstreetfamousforthenightmarketwhichisofferedtobraveeyesandstomachsisaspectaculargastronomicbazaarwithdifferenttypesofinsectskewers:scorpionstogrbadhoppers

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Unfortunately, eating cicadas is not fashionable in Hangzhou. But for the people of the neighboring city of Yongkang, also in Zhejiang province, they are delicious: at the Cicada festival, they consume 5 tons a day. For Sun, they are already model citizens.

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