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Entomophagy

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So.... I came home from work and was hungry... craving for some fish and chips but didn't have any fish and chips.... -_- Sad.... i was gonna order some fast food but ended up eating cheap noodles and got bloated with five packs... damn.... why don't I get fat I wondered....

I changed to some comfty clothes, got a beer and lit a stick of cigarette... sat down, got a piece of paper and a pen, tried to imagine what my concept would be for my new OC as I glanced at the superworms I was trying to get to "pupae".... I suddenly thought of a concept. Not for my OC but for something rather out of the blue and a lil'bit extreme, exotic and not for those that easily get to re-taste their food in a different manner. A concept! About food! Something to munch on! Pulutan! Being a culinary graduate who works as a film and graphical restoration artist at FPJ Studios (should've took fine arts with the majority of my working experience being in that type of field...) I always wanted to have my own bar.... just didn't have the place and cash to execute my passion or rather dreams... I thought that this was a  great concept to serve in a bar! So... knowing that what I feed them are purely oats and carrots... these superworms, basically are in heaven being able to live in their food.... just a thought though... I started to take a dozen of them out into bowl... sanitized them... didn't even need to do mise en place... rounded up some herbs and spices, oil and pinches of salt and pepper to taste for some basic pan frying... well... come to think of it... that was mise en place... -_- .... and cooked away.... though I got a little bothered preparing my main ingredient by just looking at it.... I knew it was edible... alot of people practice entomophagy now a days. Finally done cooking, plated my so called dish in a rough manner, did the dishes and eventually sat down to drink and stare at what am I gonna eat. I tasted lot's of weird food before but this one struck me... I couldn't take a bite... maybe I should've taken the head and legs out first but what's done is done... I've done and seen it prepared that way.... or maybe because t'was alive before? Or maybe... nah.... enough thoughts... drank my "room tempretured" beer, lit another cigarette, opened another bottle of Redhorse beer and munched on a piece. I just shoved it in there! Like boom! To my surprise! It... It tasted good! In fact... I really liked it! Its got this earthy flavor mixed with the taste of pork rind and a touch of nuttiness to it. Salty with a hint of spice and flavorful herbs. It was good! o_0.... The "crispiness" was awesome! Dude! Never would've thought that something that small and crawls would be delightful to the palate..... well.... that's what's nice about culinary arts.... the simplest or most disgusting piece of ingredient could turn into something quite exquisite.  
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