Scorpion Skewer

Last night, the core four of us — Juli, Jon, me, and KP — went to Tian'an'men Square and then walked down past Wanfujing Dajie to the night market. At the night market, I resolved to eat a scorpion. But as you can see from the video, I almost lost my nerve. It was tasty though. Very similar to shrimp, or pumpkin seeds, depending on which part you eat. It's crunchewy, so the body tastes shrimpy, the legs and pincers pumpkin-seed like. But I think it's much too scary looking to eat, just in general. Also when the scorpions are on display sometimes they are still alive and trying to sting things. They are just creepiest creepy crawlies ever. Ugh.

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