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KY eats - Fried Bee Pupae at Vietnam

Files under Eats, Travel, Vietnam | Posted by KY

My Vietnamese friend, Trinh invited me to his house for dinner, and knowing that I am some sort of an explorer when it comes to food, he got his wife to prepare one of the more interesting dishes I’ve had recently. Fried bee’s pupae!

Fried Bee Pupae
don’t they look lovely?

The dish is prepared by frying the pupae lightly with minimal seasoning, looks to me that only oil and some shallots was used. My friend told me that there are many ways the dish is prepared. As you bite this strange looking creature, the liquid interior of the insect bursts in your mouth, the texture is certainly interesting. However, to be honest, the taste is rather blunt, I think a stronger seasoning might help.

trinh's house
very good Vietnamese hospitality

My Vietnamese friend’s house is quite narrow and short in Malaysian standard, but in the city of 7 million, land is pretty expensive. This particular house is slightly less than 3 meters in width, and probably some 10 meters in depth. It was a pretty interesting experience.

Tags: bee, Eats, food, fried, ho-chi-minh-city, insect, pupa, pupae

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13 Responses to “KY eats - Fried Bee Pupae at Vietnam”

By kimberlycun on Aug 27, 2007 | Reply

i want to eattttt

p/s: his wife quite hot!

By TBG on Aug 27, 2007 | Reply

I had this in Kota Baru, but the difference was, the ‘bee’ dish I had included the ‘adult bees’ as well, which are black capsules like….so we eat the whole family!! HAHA

By Good Boy Gone Bad on Aug 27, 2007 | Reply

FRIED BEE’S WHAT?! Wahsai salute you man!!! The last time I chewed on insects was when I had this fried grasshopper. Fuuyoh, tasted like chicken.