This beneficial insect in the water is a favorite of people from Guangxi, China, and makes a superb stew, yet outsiders dare not eat it.

In rural areas there are all kinds of wild plants and wild animals, some beneficial and some harmful. Farmer friends always protect the beneficial insects, while they kill the harmful ones. Beneficial insects are naturally insects that are good for the growth of crops, and farmer friends cherish these beneficial insects extremely. I remember that as children we could not tell beneficial insects from harmful ones. Back then, whenever we caught a beneficial insect, the adults would make us let it go, saying that only then could the crops grow well.

Today I will introduce one kind of beneficial insect, and that is the tadpole. Speaking of tadpoles, everyone knows that after they grow up they become frogs, and frogs live by eating insects. Actually, tadpoles alone do not really count as beneficial insects, but frogs play a great protective role for farmland, so in the eyes of farmer friends tadpoles are also a great beneficial insect.

I remember that when I was little, I could often see tadpoles in the rivers back in my hometown. At that time I could never figure out how these little black tadpoles could turn into frogs.

Yet it is exactly this kind of tadpole that grows in the water, and in the eyes of some foodies it is actually a delicacy. For many people it probably counts as dark cuisine.

Some people make tadpoles into tadpole soup, which means putting cleaned tadpoles into a pot and boiling them. I really do not know how the first person who tried to make tadpole soup managed it, being able to eat this beneficial insect, and something that does not even look very appetizing.

However, it is said that this tadpole soup has already become a home-style "delicacy" in the Guangxi, China area, and is the favorite of quite a few people from Guangxi, China. According to friends who have eaten it, this kind of wild flavor from the water, the tadpole, tastes quite good, and as a stew it is especially superb, with a very good taste, a flavor you cannot usually get. This tadpole, which was a beneficial insect in the countryside when we were children, is now used by people to make stew and drink, showing the essence of being a foodie to the fullest.

It is said that tadpole soup is rich in protein, has high nutritional value, and tastes good too.

It is exactly this kind of dark cuisine, tadpole soup, that is now also very expensive, mainly because there are fewer tadpoles. When I was little, many tadpoles could often be seen in the rivers back in my hometown. Now some rivers have already dried up, and on top of that the water quality has been polluted, so after the living space of frogs was damaged, they lay fewer eggs, and naturally the number of tadpoles has also decreased. Nowadays it is not easy to find tadpoles either, and tadpoles have become rare. It is exactly this kind of beneficial insect in the eyes of farmer friends that is now served on people's dining tables. If farmer friends knew about this, they would probably feel sad.

Dear friends, if you saw this food, tadpole soup, would you dare to eat it? Anyway, as an outsider, I dare not eat it, so I also do not know what it tastes like. If any friend has eaten it, you can talk about how it felt!