Yummy Pupa

I've eaten larvae and pupae during this trip to China, and they're 
quite delicious. The outer covering when deep fried taste like potato 
chips. I have a story about my pupa-eating adventure.  Just outside 
the gates of the University is a farmers' market.  Actually it's a 
parking-lot, bus-stop, taxi-stand by day, but from 5am-7am it's an 
early farmers' market and from 7pm to midnight it's a night market. I 
went for a walk early in the morning and it was really bustling.  
There was this one small stand where these people were hawking what 
looked like small roots.  I took a closer look and saw that they were 
pupae (see image attached). I then asked if I could take a picture 
rather than being sneaky about taking a picture. The guy got quite 
upset and starting yelling at me.  I couldn't tell all the words he 
was saying, but it was something along the lines of, "Who do you think 
you are taking pictures of other people's stuff" and "get the hell out 
of here", and "Why the hell do you want pictures anyways" and other 
such stuff which I can't translate.  I calmly said to him that I am 
from overseas.  Then he started ranting again that I was trying to 
trick him and there's no way that I could be from abroad. Then I 
calmly said to his woman companion that I'm from Canada.  After she 
heard how I spoke and pronounced Canada, she said, of course he's from 
overseas.  Then the guy immediately quieted down and said, in that 
case, go ahead and take pictures.  All the while with this commotion, 
other Chinese had started to gather around.  The Chinese have very 
little personal distance and they always want to know what's 
happenning, so I even had some pressing up against me, especially to 
see what a foreigner from Canada looked like. So I took my pictures 
and they even offered to give me a couple of pupae for free.  I did 
end up taking one, more to show the crowd that it was edible than 
actually wanting to eat it, and then took off.  Actually the skin was 
pretty good, but the innards were starchy, rather than shrimp-like 
which I had been hoping for.