VietNamNet Bridge – Hat Lot is a special market in the northern mountain province of Son La, where insects are sold as food.

Stinkbugs, crickets and grasshoppers have been familiar food of local residents for a long time. Insects are processed into delicious and nourishing cuisines.
 

Stream crabs.

Crickets

Thai ethnic people process bee pupals in different ways: steame, dried bee pupals
and bee pupal steamed glutinous rice.

Water crickets.


Stinkbugs


Thai people see insects as nourishing food.




Sellers carefully guide buyers how to process insects into good food.


Spices for food processed from insects


The insect market.

It opens from early morning until late afternoon.



Thai women


However, insect-eating habit is a threat for insects.


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