There you will find a trove of ancestral recipes that constitute perhaps the weirdest food you can imagine. Better skip this one if you’re insectophobic, because capung or dragonflies are the old countrymen’s favourite.
Chop them into pieces (lawar) or skewer and roast them. The taste is said to be crisp and sweet – provided you have the guts to stomach it. Yet one insect ingredient the thought of which really makes us nauseous is nyawan, or… bees. You read it correctly. The most famous dish is pesan be nyawan: bees and chopped beehives seasoned with local spices, wrapped in leaves and roasted. Don’t worry about your palate getting stung and numbed, since the amount of chillies involved in the dish will already have paralyzed your oral senses.