Cricket ramen for you?
In a steamy Tokyo kitchen, a roasted scent wafts through the air as Yuta Shinohara prepares soup stock for ramen, derived not from pork or chicken, but crickets.
The bowls of ramen produced by Shinohara and his team look and smell like those at restaurants across Japan: fine white noodles sit in a savoury soup, topped with a juicy slice of pork and fat pieces of pickled bamboo shoots. Shinohara isn't a professional chef, in fact his preferred description of himself is"earth boy." And it's his love of all things nature-related that led to him insect-based food.
Shinohara's love affair with insects began as a child, when he spent most of his time in fields and bushes, catching grasshoppers and cicadas."I couldn't tell anyone that I love insects or I eat insects until I was about 20 years old," he says shyly."I was afraid of becoming the odd one out or being bullied for it."Humans have been eating insects for thousands of years and they remain a common food in many countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania.
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