Stir-fried bee pupae with pickled bamboo shoots

Cao Bang is a land with pristine and rich natural colors. Not only attracting tourists with its peaceful beauty and unique traditional culture, but diverse cuisine is also one of the attractions for tourists when visiting. Stir-fried bee pupae with bamboo shoots is one of those dishes. Although picky about who enjoys it, it is a rustic, unique, and healthy dish.

During the wild bee season (usually late summer around July and August), experienced people often look for beehives as big as a small basket and bring them home. This job has many dangerous elements so it requires a lot of experience to be able to do it.

According to Oriental medicine, bee pupae have a slightly sweet, cold taste, are non-toxic, and have the effect of sterilizing, preventing damage to internal organs, nourishing qi, preventing aging, making the complexion fresh and smooth. Bee pupae are clearly effective in treating impotence, premature aging, dry hair, premature gray hair, nourishing the kidneys, strengthening yang, enhancing vitality and fertility, and supporting the treatment of impotence in men.

Bee pupae also have special effects on people with nervous breakdown, insomnia, forgetfulness and infertility in women. Bee pupae are very good for thin people, children with anorexia, rickets, and slow physical development.

To prepare bee pupae, the beehive is sorted after cleaning, first picking out the brown young bees and washing them separately, then the plump, round white young bees (commonly called pupae). After sorting, the bees are rinsed with cold water and drained. Bee pupae and young bees can be stir-fried together or separated and processed into many different dishes such as stir-fried with lemon leaves, cooked with lemon, fried crispy... but the most unique and impressive is still the dish of bee pupae cooked with sour bamboo shoots.

Stir-fried bee pupae with sour bamboo shoots.

To make the bee pupae dish fragrant and delicious, after preparing the ingredients, saute onions with animal fat, then add the bee pupae and stir-fry evenly. When the bee pupae turn slightly yellow, remove from heat and pour onto a plate. Then add the prepared pickled bamboo shoots and stir-fry until cooked. When the bamboo shoots are cooked, add the previously roasted bee pupae to the pan and stir-fry together. The preparation of the stir-fried bee pupae and pickled bamboo shoots dish is very simple, no need to prepare many ingredients, just add a little bit of chili and season to taste and the dish is complete.

Stir-fried bee pupae with sour bamboo shoots has the sweet, fatty taste of pupae meat, the sour taste of bamboo shoots blends together to create a unique, strange dish, awakening the taste buds that diners can hardly forget. Not only is the name special, stir-fried bee pupae with sour bamboo shoots is also unique because it only appears in the last days of summer. Nowadays, in order for tourists to enjoy the dish all year round, many local restaurants have stocked bee pupae and sour bamboo shoots for easy processing when tourists want to enjoy it.

Not only unique, strange and rustic, stir-fried bee pupae with bamboo shoots is also a unique culinary culture when tourists have the opportunity to visit Cao Bang. If you are not a picky eater or have any allergic complications, you can enjoy and taste stir-fried bee pupae with sour bamboo shoots to feel the flavor of Cao Bang mountains and forests.

Thuy Tien

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