I have tried taro-stuffed deep-fried crickets in 甲仙（Jia-xian）in Kaohsiung County. Quite nice, no strong flavor. Mostly just a greasy, crunchy bite. More a gimmick for tourists to sample. The taro with ice cream is heavenly. The black squirrel (harder to procure these days due to people’s sensitivities) is mostly bones and tastes like … chicken 
. Very similar to field rats, 田鼠, but less commonly sold.
There is a strong group working on ‘insects as food’ at 東華大學 (National DongHua Uni), Hualien. English speaking
If anyone is interested, PM me for contact.
That’s a niiiiice Twitter account…
Must be huge crickets to be able to stuff them.
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Back in the day, many of the beer gardens in Tian Mu served heaping platters of deep-fried crickets. Usually stuffed with ginger if I remember correctly.
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They were decent sized. Not much taro “in” them.
Maybe they use child labor to stuff them, they have tiny fingers.
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I ate deep-fried crickets in a restaurant here in Taitung. Delicious. Also wasps- good, but a sit leggy. One of the guys there had his teenage daughter join us. She squealed in disgust at the insects, but thankfully there was some normal food she could dig into- fish eyeballs and cheeks and chicken feet.
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A hornet parasite is fed to a frog. 
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Why can’t I look away?!
And why am I salivating?
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Waiter!! There’s no fly in my soup!!
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If you eat processed food, you are already eating an insect diet. Likely rodent as well.
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Always impressed by Japanese lack of empathy, lack of fear or reality and attention to detail and ocd level finger cleaning while holding a tortured poisonous animal while.pulling a parasite out of its ass whilst struggling in immense pain. If we couldn’t see 2 hands I’d bet money on him.masturbating during this procedure.
Man, that guy has a whole channel about removing parasites from various critters.
How super-awesome! Definitely on my Subscribed list now.
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I thought it was quite sympathetic to the plight of the hornet. Most people would simply squash the hornet without removing the parasites.
maybe he squashed it later, of course.
no idea what he needs the hornet for.
Japanese guy be like:
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I dunno. If somethng bigger than me pulls out a parasite a quarter my.size while I squirm in pain and go motiinless I hope they kill me first, not after.
This is cool
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Giant stick insects with their limbs torn off are asparagus from hell:
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