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Cicada Cuisine
Cicadas are a delicacy in the city of Shanghai, China, where this creative recipe originated.

Ingredients
Cicadas, anises, salt, rice wine, mashed garlic, celery, turnip greens.

Recipe
1. Boil the cicadas and anises in salted rice wine for five minutes, then remove the cicadas.
2. Sauté the mashed garlic, adding water and rice wine to make a paste.
3. Deep-fry the cicadas, then skewer them with bamboo picks. Arrange them on a plate with the turnip greens, celery, and garlic paste to look like the cicadas are climbing out of a mud pie onto green foliage. Bon appetit!

[DeFault User]

Cicada Cuisine

Hmmm, I recall the bluejays eating them with great gusto and no preparation time. The darn things are loud and their volume really goes up in a sort of 'death scream' when caught by a jaybird.

[kevkrom]

Cicada Cuisine

Cicadas -- the other white meat.