Last night we went to Wangfujing, the night markets in Beijing. It is famous for it’s bugs, cooked and salted in front of you and then eaten as an appetizer. The list of things that I ate includes:

• Grasshopper
• Beetle
• Locust
• Centipede
• Seahorse
• Small Scorpion
• The tail end of a Large Scorpion
• Silkworm in a cocoon

To be honest, they weren’t that bad, they tasted like a salty potato chip. The beetle and the seahorse were the worst for me. The beetle popped a little and got very stuck in my teeth. The seahorse had a weird fishy taste. Anyhow, here is photo and video [just realized you can't load Google videos in China, I embedded them but have no idea if it works in the free world or not. if not, I'll upload when I get to London in a couple of days. in the meantime, here are the links. (((Bugs 1))) (((Bugs 2)))] evidence. By the way, totally fucking love Beijing.

A tray of Locusts. These didn’t taste so bad.

Silkworms in cocoons. This was the first one I ate and wasn’t so bad. I got drunker as the bug eating progressed, so the rest were relatively easy.

No one seemed to mind these except me. The texture was different from the “normal” bugs and there was a fish aftertaste that was a tad unsettling.

Grasshoppers are actually kind of good.

Centipede didn’t taste bad, it was just tough to get off of the stick.

Eating centipede.

Eating a beetle. This one was pretty bad.

DM enjoying a grasshopper.

BL enjoying a grasshopper.

JFK enjoying a grasshopper.

Full penetration.

That’s a locust.

Silkworm in a cocoon.

Scorpion.

And finally, the little disgusting seahorse.

Bon apetit. See you soon.