BBC's Food writer Stefan Gates once tastes this unusual yummy in Beijing:
Yup...scorpions. They were skewered alive in front of me in China, then dropped in boiling oil, where they cook almost instantly.
Very crunchy on the outside, yet smooth in the middle and they smell of the rather elderly oil they were cooked in.
This oil also masks any scorpion flavour (if, indeed they have any flavour).
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