| Show Insects Popular in Fare of Balinese Eat Anything That Walks Swims Crawls Balinese food is difficult for the palate of a Westerner Besides be- be being be tog ing served cold always food Js is con uneatable unless It is vio- vio violently violently flavored with a great variety of crushed pungent spices aromatIc Ic roots and leaves nuts onions garlic fermented fIsh paste lemon juice grated coconut and burning red peppers It was so hot that It made me n a Mexican raised on chill chill- peppers cry and break out In beads of perspiration writes Miguel Co Co- Covarrubias Mexican artist in Asia Magazine Outside of certaIn religIous pro pro- human buman flesh tigers monkeys dogs crocodiles mice reptiles frogs certain poisonous fish leeches stinging insects crows eagles owls and In general all birds with with mustaches the common people of Bali eat everything that walks swims flies or crawls Chick Chick- Chicken i en cn duck pork and more rarely beef and buffalo are the meats meals most I commonly eaten but the people are also fond of stranger foods such as dragonflies crickets flying ants and the larvae of bees Dragonflies Dragon were caught In a most amusing manner Boys and girls wandered among the rice fields waving long poles the ends of whIch I were smeared with a sticky sap The supposedly rank conscious flies dragon must always stand In InI inthe I the highest branches and all the boy boyI I had to do was hold the stick above the place where n a fly stood it flew on to the sticky end of the pole and was was caught Large numbers were obtained In this curious manner their wings taken off and the bodies bodle fried crisp In coconut oil with spices and vegetables Great delicacies are also the scaled anteater the flying fox a great fruit bat baU the porcupine large lizards wild boar squids rico rice I birds and all sorts ot of crayfish |
