Have you ever tasted silkworm? – If you dare go to Chatuchak Weekend Market
In Western countries, where insects are totally contempt, there are no conditions for creating silkworm eating culture. In SEA`s silk-producing countries, where silkworm pupae been left after fibrous cocoons have been harvested are considered not only eatable but pretty delicious. If you are brave enough to break western thoughts about this subject, silkworms are super easy to find – when you know where to look.
For example amazing Chatuchak weekend market, which quite easy to reach from my place by MRT, offers 7-9 places to buy silkworm. Silkworm – snack which you can compare by quality and taste with deep fried kernels.
You will ask me how does silkworm taste? When you eat it, you will feel tastes of oil, ginger, soy sauce and black pepper. There are no any specific insect tastes in it.
Different shops will taste different as well. Some of them will fry it till only one thin crispy pill left, some will make it spicy like 100 chilies, most attractive to typical white guy taste will be one which still juicy and you can feel muscles of worm when you bite it. It will explode in your mouth so juicy that you will feel ginger taste all around, so deep breath on and one by one you put them and enjoy the difference. Most of shops will provide you toothpick to eat it – don’t use it, eating with your fingers way tastier. You are eating worms anyway so enjoy it in full.

Resume:
–Silkworm – completely safe to eat
–Silkworm – one of “must try” in Bangkok, costs nothing around 20 baht per small bag
–Use your hands to eat it
–There is no any special “insect” taste but the feeling of breaking western preconceptions
–The funny thing to do is to buy some bring back to your country but it in the candy vase and offer your guests