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  • Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
  • The BBC's Jonah Fisher tries a local delicacy in the remote Wa region of Shan State in eastern Myanmar - fried wasp.
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  • @rickenman9844
    @rickenman9844 2 года назад +31

    Pound for pound insects contain more protein than beef or fish. Fried wasp is the perfect healthy fried snack.

  • @McC1oudv2
    @McC1oudv2 8 лет назад +45

    Fried sure but I would pass on the drink.

  • @MJDHX
    @MJDHX 8 лет назад +63

    The one in the drink looked like an Asian Giant Hornet.

    • @RoanRants
      @RoanRants 4 года назад

      Winner Htoo I hope you remove the stinger first lol

    • @MajinMist603
      @MajinMist603 4 года назад +1

      @Winner Htoo good protein , I am from the US and people usually think its weird to eat bugs here but they tend to forget you can cook bugs and grubs and don't have to eat it alive or raw .

    • @RoanRants
      @RoanRants 4 года назад +2

      Winner Htoo But when hornets are dead their stinger can still sting you.

    • @andrewsinclair7159
      @andrewsinclair7159 4 года назад +9

      ​@@RoanRants That's only for a brief period after they die, depending on how they're killed. If you deep fry them, the heat completely destroys the nerve structures that allow them to sting after they die. It also breaks down and neutralizes any venom left in the insect, and softens the stinger itself so that it becomes flexible and unable to pierce anything.

    • @RoanRants
      @RoanRants 4 года назад +2

      Andrew Sinclair Interesting

  • @mileend6226
    @mileend6226 2 года назад +8

    At the end he just ate raw full-grown wasp

    • @gaudacheese125
      @gaudacheese125 Год назад +3

      This is the toughest caucasian dude I've ever seen

  • @KaiTungNg
    @KaiTungNg 8 лет назад +33

    Interesting. The woman spoke Mandarin, though. I'm quite sure it was obvious that you don't swallow the giant wasp in the wine

    • @soroushazizi264
      @soroushazizi264 4 года назад +3

      The Shan State borders China so they have a very large Mandarin demographic.

  • @MilkByCow
    @MilkByCow 4 года назад +49

    The fried wasps and larvae actually look pretty good. That crunch though. Can imagine snacking on this instead of chips 😂

  • @sweeseen9577
    @sweeseen9577 8 лет назад +31

    thumb up for the reporter :)

  • @EnderNator10
    @EnderNator10 6 лет назад +18

    angry customer: waiter theres a wasp in my food
    chef: the wasps are you food
    angry customer: we nerver eat here again
    me: *tries some since he also ate an cricket infused in a lolipop*

  • @IrvineTruth
    @IrvineTruth 8 лет назад +8

    I wish we had this kind of reporting here in the states so Americans could get a taste of other cultures beyond our borders. Keep up the good work.

    • @Qsen123
      @Qsen123 Год назад

      bbc is even worse than the american media outlets lmfao

  • @dougiekills13
    @dougiekills13 Год назад +8

    Wasn’t supposed to eat the wasp just drink the wine 😂 priceless

  • @malachicurlyAfro65
    @malachicurlyAfro65 6 месяцев назад +1

    I have tried the edible bugs I eaten black ants crickets and scorpions and tarantula they all tasted pretty good. But a wasp im not eating that

  • @27hazardous
    @27hazardous 8 лет назад +14

    LOL! He looked so uncomfortable eating that!!

  • @TengYuan
    @TengYuan 8 лет назад +4

    not only that we dont drink the wasp in the liquor, but we dont drink rice liquor like it was beer either.

  • @bigboib8267
    @bigboib8267 6 лет назад +2

    Wasps look so creepy just buzzing and flying

  • @averylongtimeago8816
    @averylongtimeago8816 5 лет назад +14

    Its the best, taste good and rich in nutrients.👍👍

  • @AmethystSilverDragon
    @AmethystSilverDragon 5 лет назад +35

    As a spheksophobic (fear of wasps) this would be a nightmare for me, I wouldn’t eat it even if I was dying or if you paid me. 🤢🤮😨

    • @mansterj
      @mansterj 4 года назад +17

      I don't like giant Hornets either but now they've been found one state over from me in Washington. If they successfully spread over to me I'm going to start eating them out of shear hatred.

    • @MajinMist603
      @MajinMist603 4 года назад +5

      I have the same fear but I would try to eat one , eating them is payback in my eyes ( I don't fear Bees and mud dubbers just because they are chill).

    • @daanvandewinkel8125
      @daanvandewinkel8125 4 года назад

      Im allergic

    • @bchishi8339
      @bchishi8339 4 года назад +3

      It's the most expensive food item in Nagaland..

    • @dominickhooks639
      @dominickhooks639 4 года назад +1

      Same!

  • @recterbert
    @recterbert 8 лет назад +25

    What about the STINGERRRR??

    • @andrewsinclair7159
      @andrewsinclair7159 4 года назад +14

      Heat from the cooking process softens the stinger so it can't pierce anything, and neutralizes the venom.

    • @Logic44
      @Logic44 4 года назад +4

      @@andrewsinclair7159 Plus, iirc, the stinger is serrated like a saw, and has to go back and forth in order to land a sting effectively...

  • @JordanLake25
    @JordanLake25 8 лет назад +30

    I would try this, looks like it might taste good.
    Maybe taco seasoning would make it taste good too.

  • @jasonsin8288
    @jasonsin8288 4 года назад +2

    RIP the reporter accidentally drank the wasp

  • @AmieEss
    @AmieEss 2 года назад +4

    Not eating bugs five years ago. Still not eating the bugs.

  • @MISSINGSITTERS
    @MISSINGSITTERS 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hornet larvae is one of the tastiest things I've ever eaten in my life I swear

  • @borisfernandez5267
    @borisfernandez5267 2 года назад +2

    his eyes widening at the end 😂😂😂

  • @Huggybear64
    @Huggybear64 5 месяцев назад +1

    What about the stinger and the venom? Are they removed before cooking?

  • @jhrockgod
    @jhrockgod 4 года назад +3

    Crispy fried critter soup is my recommendation folks 😉

  • @marckid93
    @marckid93 4 года назад +9

    I’ve never seen something look so scrumptious and nasty in one setting.

  • @GyacoYu
    @GyacoYu 8 лет назад +13

    2:04 footnote wahahahahh...

    • @MaTeiso4
      @MaTeiso4 4 года назад

      "hahaha I'm in danger :D"

  • @thylascene1142
    @thylascene1142 3 года назад +6

    Hell yeah, so long as I didn't get stung. (They can still sting when dead, but maybe the heat neutralizes the stinger? 🤔🤔🤔)

    • @devineleven1818
      @devineleven1818 Год назад +1

      The venom and stinger are neutralized in the cooking process.

  • @YouKnowMeDuh
    @YouKnowMeDuh 5 лет назад +5

    But what about the stingers? Are they not harder than the rest of the body?

  • @genjoylian3078
    @genjoylian3078 2 года назад +1

    The taste is amazing

  • @kristopherknapp1707
    @kristopherknapp1707 2 года назад +1

    Did they remove the stingers?

  • @EngPheniks
    @EngPheniks 8 месяцев назад

    Fried wasp larvae is very tasty. I myself haven't tasted it though.

  • @hellspree
    @hellspree 3 года назад +1

    That drink looked very intimidating.

  • @truboyjaru9724
    @truboyjaru9724 3 года назад +1

    These wasp are the costliest thing here

  • @GyacoYu
    @GyacoYu 8 лет назад +3

    Those Wa people were speaking Southwestern Mandarin, instead of their mother tongue Va. This is like when some Mongolian was interviewed by Chinese reporters they spoke English instead of their mother tongue Mongolian. Both made the wrong assumption that if they spoke a "more international" language people coming from a different country would "naturally" understand them.

  • @ormancadam6453
    @ormancadam6453 8 лет назад +3

    Why is it that only Asians do this kinda stuff.

    • @killingfields6599
      @killingfields6599 4 года назад +1

      lik everytiem because we are not picky and we need to survive.

  • @bryan_tang
    @bryan_tang 4 года назад +2

    the lady cooking the wasps was speaking mandarin

  • @Herobrine90nove
    @Herobrine90nove 2 года назад +3

    YOU VILL EAT ZE BUGS

  • @NightOwlGames
    @NightOwlGames 3 года назад +3

    NOPE!

  • @lenmang6750
    @lenmang6750 4 года назад +1

    You try the infant one it is amazing you would not even like to quit it

  • @tiberiu_nicolae
    @tiberiu_nicolae Год назад +1

    I think i'll just starve, thank you.

  • @bokator07
    @bokator07 8 лет назад +6

    You ah... thinking of taking Bear Grylle's job?

  • @gyurmethlodroe1774
    @gyurmethlodroe1774 2 года назад +2

    wasp or hornets? Do some research boy

    • @lalnunmawiapb4664
      @lalnunmawiapb4664 2 года назад

      Hornets... taste like shrimp😜full of fats and protein😜 and am not chinese😎

    • @gyurmethlodroe1774
      @gyurmethlodroe1774 2 года назад

      @@lalnunmawiapb4664 not chinese? then you are not coronavirus?

  • @loadapish
    @loadapish 8 лет назад +2

    chinese dude was surprised how much of that he drank. bet he was fuckin legless later

  • @b.hagedash7973
    @b.hagedash7973 8 лет назад +1

    For the sake of symmetry I like to think they sell cough mixture in corked bottles.

  • @simon2k4
    @simon2k4 3 года назад +2

    I have a phobia of wasps and this has just made me absolutely cringe and I have no idea why I watched. I would freak out if I was there with them in front of me like that. 🤢🤢🤢

  • @Trave13r
    @Trave13r 4 года назад +1

    watching this during Covid..the lady coughing behind...

  • @BBoyFast1000
    @BBoyFast1000 6 лет назад +6

    I WANT SOME!!!!!!

  • @lamichealporter7037
    @lamichealporter7037 4 года назад +2

    Man I need to get with y'all those wasp are good

  • @Zlord3
    @Zlord3 5 лет назад +3

    Mauritian wasp recipe 👍❤️

  • @anonymous-oc2il
    @anonymous-oc2il 2 года назад +1

    Me an asian who ate it multiples time

  • @cliffli798
    @cliffli798 4 года назад

    You can see he didn't like it

  • @miguelperez-gb5kr
    @miguelperez-gb5kr 8 месяцев назад

    So i have to eat the fried wasp and fried bees at the myanmar refugee, i have to do visitor and i have to eat those and drink soda or water (Instead of eating mouse, dog, and cockroaches) (i am now ok with spiders)

  • @esunbardo
    @esunbardo 8 лет назад +4

    So sad your work. I wouldn't do it for a million dollars

    • @killingfields6599
      @killingfields6599 4 года назад

      Elhy Oviedo yeah you people from the 1st world wouldnt dare to eat food from us living in the third world

    • @MajinMist603
      @MajinMist603 4 года назад

      @@killingfields6599Japan is a 1st world country and they eat bugs ( like most people in the world) , the west is weird when it comes with bugs I am afraid of them ( mostly hornets and wasp because they can fly and sting , bees and mud dubbers are chill tho) but we forget it is a good source of protein .

  • @burgerking220
    @burgerking220 4 года назад

    I don't think you were supposed to drink the wasp. lol.

  • @juice6521
    @juice6521 8 лет назад +2

    Science, hurry up with that lab meat, for the love of God.

  • @煙和蠍子煙和蠍子
    @煙和蠍子煙和蠍子 6 лет назад +2

    I WANT SOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @nephildevil
    @nephildevil 8 лет назад

    some chili, some ginger, ... the fried ones look good,
    but that drink with dead wasps ehh nah thanks :D reminds me of apple juice nightmares during summer when i was a kid xD

  • @cod3builder701
    @cod3builder701 4 года назад

    How did you get rid of the wasps in the nest?

  • @MajinMist603
    @MajinMist603 4 года назад

    Looks good tbh

  • @mrsnekk5297
    @mrsnekk5297 3 месяца назад

    Ngl id try the fried wasp

  • @yzjstc2002
    @yzjstc2002 8 лет назад

    Gentlemen, wasps improve male ability potential!

    • @gorgefood9867
      @gorgefood9867 4 года назад +1

      Keep telling yourself that. It won't make that 2 incher any bigger.

    • @z1az285
      @z1az285 3 года назад +1

      @@gorgefood9867 No, it will keep it straight for a longer period of time. Big difference. No pun intended

  • @milkcult8052
    @milkcult8052 6 лет назад +5

    He wasn’t supposed to drink the wasp right 💀

  • @kevgreenhalgh263
    @kevgreenhalgh263 8 лет назад +3

    I've paid for a lot worse than that.. Manchester city centre at 03:00hrs.... If it looks like a kebab, it probably is a kebab, right? lol

  • @Secret090909
    @Secret090909 8 лет назад

    Never everr, dude.

  • @Zlord3
    @Zlord3 5 лет назад

    Wasp is good

  • @joecat916
    @joecat916 Год назад

    I read that native Americans ate simular. I know owls love eating them. But I ask. Do they have poison from the stingers? Would my throat swell shut if I tried to eat wasp/yellow jacket larvae? 🍯🧐🙄

  • @pcharl01
    @pcharl01 4 года назад

    Come on yo......

  • @lionelbutler6541
    @lionelbutler6541 3 года назад

    Not as bad when Bear Grylls at the large grub 🤢

  • @Light-j83hg
    @Light-j83hg Год назад

    I got wasp today in my cooked vegetables

  • @isifax1191
    @isifax1191 Год назад

    dude ate the least tastiest one. a full grown doesnt taste that good as compared to the larva.

  • @akashtiwari1993
    @akashtiwari1993 2 года назад

    It's like mai cro ni

  • @peazz
    @peazz 4 года назад +1

    Mmmm looks nice!

  • @v4r0
    @v4r0 6 лет назад +1

    I'd love to try it 💓

  • @BBoyFast1000
    @BBoyFast1000 5 лет назад

    YES EAT UP!!!!!!!!!!!YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!EAT!

  • @simondr70
    @simondr70 4 года назад

    Easy on the rice wine, it'll get you real drunk ..

  • @Giniro_No_Suisei
    @Giniro_No_Suisei 2 года назад +1

    In my country, we even eat them raw. Personally, I prefer them raw than fried.

    • @greenbirdstar
      @greenbirdstar 2 года назад +1

      What about the stinger, won't it be threatening to eat it with the poison sack?

    • @Giniro_No_Suisei
      @Giniro_No_Suisei 2 года назад +4

      @@greenbirdstar
      I mean the larvae of course, not the adult.
      😅

    • @greenbirdstar
      @greenbirdstar 2 года назад +1

      Oh but when adults are cooked they get their stinger removed then?

    • @Giniro_No_Suisei
      @Giniro_No_Suisei 2 года назад

      @@greenbirdstar
      Ok.

  • @wilfredhather
    @wilfredhather 8 лет назад

    Was the woman speaking Mandarin?

  • @LauraLi-mx2dt
    @LauraLi-mx2dt 4 года назад +4

    I think I’m actually going to be sick 🤢

    • @haruspex1-50
      @haruspex1-50 4 года назад +3

      China need to stop eating all this weird shit. Look at the mess they’ve already caused with Covid

    • @LauraLi-mx2dt
      @LauraLi-mx2dt 4 года назад

      Haruspex exactly 🙌🏻🙌🏻

    • @v.k5417
      @v.k5417 3 года назад

      @@haruspex1-50 YEAH

    • @Eueueyw
      @Eueueyw 3 года назад

      @@haruspex1-50 this is in Myanmar

  • @assu3150
    @assu3150 6 лет назад

    it's not wasp it's obvious a size of giant asian hornet

    • @thylascene1142
      @thylascene1142 3 года назад

      A hornet is a type of wasp.
      They're basically wasps on steroids, and 10X more aggressive.

  • @AnchansFunWorld
    @AnchansFunWorld Год назад

    The lady speaks Chinese 😂

  • @abz1up251
    @abz1up251 3 года назад +1

    What the fuck

  • @Strato13
    @Strato13 4 года назад

    Yeah no thanks...

  • @renaldodida
    @renaldodida 5 лет назад +1

    They're in Myanmar yet they speak chinese?

    • @raykenley
      @raykenley 4 года назад +2

      Border of Myanmar are just a bridge across from China Sichuan province.Most people living at the borders can speak several native dialect.

    • @ophirbactrius8285
      @ophirbactrius8285 2 года назад

      Maybe they're Sino-Tibetan linguistic family.

  • @Dudemar0
    @Dudemar0 8 лет назад +2

    why is the video quality so poor?

    • @loadapish
      @loadapish 8 лет назад +4

      looked cristal clear to me. were your glasses steamed up?

    • @Dudemar0
      @Dudemar0 8 лет назад

      it gets shit when the camera pans

    • @typingcat
      @typingcat 6 лет назад

      Camera made in China.

    • @juninhopernambucano3
      @juninhopernambucano3 6 лет назад

      Dudemar is not that poor..

  • @Sailormoonpi
    @Sailormoonpi 4 года назад

    Study up

  • @galenyoung8349
    @galenyoung8349 Год назад

    You could fry shyt & people would eat it, obviously.😮
    That's not good for, you!

  • @jennycampbell9986
    @jennycampbell9986 Год назад

    Uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………..just wow

  • @レゴシ-r4f
    @レゴシ-r4f 4 года назад

    HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH

  • @RollingDude.
    @RollingDude. 8 лет назад

    fried terminal cancer yummi

  • @bethmealing7642
    @bethmealing7642 8 лет назад +1

    Thought this was the news, not I'm a celeb get me out of here 😝😝

  • @cookingwithhearttm
    @cookingwithhearttm 3 года назад +2

    THAT IS DISGUSTING!!!

    • @ophirbactrius8285
      @ophirbactrius8285 2 года назад

      That far greater better rather than rat, mouse, snake, lizard or even civet, otter, fox, cat and dog.

  • @mannyp8055
    @mannyp8055 8 лет назад

    lol

  • @JesusBride35
    @JesusBride35 2 года назад

    Eww bugs

  • @stevenskds
    @stevenskds 8 лет назад

    This is in China, not in Myanmar.

    • @wilfredhather
      @wilfredhather 8 лет назад +1

      I also wondered that. The language the woman spoke sounded like Chinese. Are there Chinese speaking minorities in that part of Myanmar?

    • @stevenskds
      @stevenskds 8 лет назад

      There may well be - the female cook is ethnically Chinese and speaking standard Mandarin. The decorations in the background contain popular (Chinese) Buddhist symbols as well as simplified Chinese (Hanzi) characters.

    • @ilyxn
      @ilyxn 8 лет назад +2

      the video was flimed at the border of myanmar to southwest China, where is dominated by Chinese.

    • @Kawdek
      @Kawdek 4 года назад +2

      @@stevenskds She doesn't really look ethnically Han though if that's what you mean? She's speaking Mandarin but with a clear accent, probably Southwestern Mandarin influenced by Wa. I think it's more that there are more interactions with Chinese people there, so they learn and use Mandarin rather than local languages so outside people like reporters are more likely to understand them?

  • @415ing
    @415ing 6 лет назад

    I want to die ;-;

  • @tianningh95
    @tianningh95 8 лет назад

    welcome to Chinese travel. Chinese guilin welcome you. very sorry. i can speak English isn't well. no teacher teach my English. you want to go try eating Chinese food.

  • @slurvtrutl526
    @slurvtrutl526 4 года назад

    Yummy

  • @KeifusMathews3
    @KeifusMathews3 4 года назад

    That shit is gross son

  • @NimSonam
    @NimSonam 7 месяцев назад

    Disgusting

  • @drewreynolds1649
    @drewreynolds1649 9 месяцев назад

    Disgusting 🤢