Chapter 349 - 182: Hang City Outing_4
Just as the three of them had finished packing and were getting ready to leave, Xiao Zhang suddenly came running over with a plastic bag in his hand.
"Here, let me show you something!" he said as he opened the plastic bag he was holding.
"Cicada nymphs?"
Looking at the contents of the bag, Lin Yang was taken aback before he spoke.
Cicada nymphs are actually cicadas, a term commonly used in Jiangdong. Inside Xiao Zhang’s plastic bag were about a dozen already fried cicadas.
Xiao Zhang hadn’t been home for some time, so while Lin Yang and the others were fishing, he visited several other households in the village. Unexpectedly, he brought back some of these edibles.
There are two ways to eat cicadas: the first is to eat cicada nymphs, which is to go out with a flashlight as the sun is about to set and easily catch them as they climb out of the ground and perch on trees.
After catching them, you can fry them up and eat them directly at home, but honestly, they do taste a bit earthy as they have spent three, five, seven, or even seventeen years in the soil, making it difficult to wash off all the dirt.
The other way to eat them is to eat the tender adults, which involves catching cicadas that have just shed their shells around 4 o’clock in the morning. At this time, the cicadas are the tenderest, and some people prefer to eat them then.