Chí hǎi (ant-egg paste), historicalAncient China
Also called 蚳醢, ant-roe sauce.
ritual paste served at Zhou court sacrifices
- Mix ant eggs with salt, starter and wine; seal in jar3.3 months
Fermented bee larvae (U Minh)Vietnam
Also called mắm ong (name not confirmed in the source), Mekong Delta fermented honey-bee brood.
sour-salty larvae eaten with rice, guava, tamarind or greens; keeps about a week at room temperature, a month refrigerated; a Tết gift (cajuput blooms in November)
- Boil larvae and separate from the comb
- Salt and sun-dry
- Mix with ground fried rice and ferment3-4 days
Grasshopper garum (Nordic Food Lab / Noma)Denmark
insect "fish sauce"; the lab also made sauces and miso-type pastes from grasshoppers and wax-moth larvae
- Ferment insects with salt and water in warm conditions
Nam phrik maeng da (insect plus fermented shrimp paste)Thailand
Also called น้ำพริกแมงดา.
relish with a licorice-like aroma from the male water bug's scent glands
- Roast and pound the bug with chilli and kapi
- Wikipedia, Shrimp paste (Thai variants)