After reading an article stating the most scariest foods to try in Sydney... I decided to make it my goal to try most of them. I'm not sure am I game enough to do the dishes with bugs in them.
I'm greeted by a very enthusiastic lady who then forces me to buy a minimum $5 purchase which ended up turning into $6 worth due to the weight. They sat in the plastic container looking like dismembered tentacles. It's then passed to the butcher who slices it up to what you see here. Ask for the chilli sauce if it's not offered.
To be fair, I have grown up with this in my childhood diet. Not a daily intake but I have eaten it here and there, not knowing what it was. Now that I'm looking at it and feeling less naive, I do feel a bit weird in the stomach just looking at it.
The texture is the key here. It has a crispy resilience and then a crunch as you break through. I love this description as it sums up how I feel:
"There's a pleasure of the teeth piercing the—whatever it is—and feeling the texture in your teeth. When you eat something like this, you have to really . . . enjoy even the sound that it makes inside of your mouth."
