Extreme menu: Insects, Scorpions, and Bees

Various methods are used to attract visitors to the culinary entrepreneurs eat a meal at the restaurant. In addition to the unique atmosphere, they often offer tempting dishes or even as extreme as that presented in a restaurant in England, 'Archipelago'.

In the midst of EU research on the nutritional content of the attack, the Telegraph journalist, Adam Lusher, try out a number of menus featuring the charm of insects the mix.

Here are three menus that he tried:

Salad Love Insects
This salad consists of grasshoppers and crickets fried in chili and onions, then served with spinach and aromatic vegetables. It was crisp, drag and bitter. Many insect legs with tiny eyes that stare makes this dish look bad appearance. The worse when touching sense of bitterness.

However, pomegranate and honey are buried at the bottom of the bowl a little to give hope. When mixed, the bitter taste of sweet change slowly faded charge. Honey glaze also makes cricket more like a shiny black buttons instead of the bodies of insects.

Chocolate covered scorpions
Scorpion baked for 20-30 minutes with a temperature of 180-200 degrees centigrade. Once cool, the insect dipped in chocolate.

When about to eat, Lusher got stuck while reading the warning call that the sting may be stuck in the esophagus. However, concerns that could not continue after the chef to make sure that the scorpion venom has been cleaned according to the rules of UK health.

Scorpions are farmed in China this feels crunchy when it entered the mouth with eight legs and outer skeleton fractions. Scorpions taste is much less pronounced chocolate flavor because it is dominated, however soft texture Lusher feel old when chewing.

In order to remove a strange impression in the mouth, Lusher chose a glass of dessert wine to neutralize.

Honey Bees creme brulee
This menu makes the honey bee as its main ingredient, which is taken at birth season. Collection of bees is served raw without the sting of the honey and biscuit tuille dibalur honeycomb covered in white chocolate. Rose water works highlight the flavors of mint on the bees.

The restaurant manager, Graham Belcher said the honey in this dish not only as a sweetener, but help keep the bees are easy to digest. "Bees have many feathers. Normally we do not tell customers this, "he said.