HAVING A LARV-AE
Wriggling ‘coconut worm’ dish served in Vietnamese restaurant made from live larvae that crawls around your plate
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This plate of wriggling 'coconut worms' comes as a delicacy in Vietnamese restaurants, but you'll need to be a very unfussy eater to order them.
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Gross video shows the critters alive and squirming on the plate - like something from I'm A Celebrity.
The grubs can be seen swimming in a chilli sauce and surrounded by tomato chunks.
Then one brave diner grabs his chopsticks and tucks in, unperturbed by the squirming treat.
A giggling pal films his calm and composed reaction as he eats the worm down in one.
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He even smiles and nods with approval after munching on the animated side-salad.
Not one to be greedy, he then picks up the plate and offers them round to his buddies, who all duly tuck in.
One of the critters can be seen curling around the chopstick as someone picks them up.
The camera then turns on the rest of the table as they wolf down the unusual canapes.
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Coconut worms, or Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus to give it the proper name, is a large beetle that lives in the forest of South East Asia.
It is considered a pest as it lays its eggs inside palm and coconut trees which can be completely eaten from the inside by the larvae.
But local get their own back by collecting them up and making them a meal - bon appetit.
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