VOA慢速英语听力：在日本，蚕、蟋蟀和昆虫成为餐桌上的美食 In Japan, Silkworms, Crickets, Bugs Are on the Table

VOA慢速英语听力：在日本，蚕、蟋蟀和昆虫成为餐桌上的美食  In Japan, Silkworms, Crickets, Bugs Are on the Table.

More restaurants in Japan are offering bugs in their dishes.

日本的越来越多餐馆将昆虫加入到他们的菜肴中。

On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto ate a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, which is usually made with raw fish. He drank a water bug cider.

最近在东京度假时，Takumi Yamamoto品尝了一份特别的午餐，里面有蟋蟀咖喱和通常用生鱼制成的蚕蛹生鱼片。他还喝了一杯水虫苹果酒。

The 26-year-old office worker is one of many people around the world with a growing interest in entomophagy, or the practice of eating insects. Bugs are slowly becoming more usable as a food source.

这位26岁的上班族是全球越来越多对昆虫食用的人之一。昆虫正在逐渐成为一种可供食用的食物来源。

Yamamoto said he sometimes ate grasshoppers dipped in soy sauce as a child. In Tokyo, he ate insect foods at Take-Noko cafe, which serves many bug dishes.

Yamamoto说：“小时候我有时会吃蘸着酱油的蚱蜢。”在东京，他在Take-Noko咖啡馆品尝了多种昆虫食品。

"It's fun to select from a wider variety of dishes," Yamamoto said. "Everything was tasty. In particular, the water bug cider was quite refreshing … like a green apple."

Yamamoto说：“可以从更多种类的菜肴中选择很有趣。一切都很美味。尤其是水虫苹果酒非常爽口……就像青苹果一样。”

Entomophagy started to be taken seriously after the United Nations declared bugs a good source of protein to feed a growing world population. With livestock farming’s effects on climate change and world hunger issues from weather and war, there has been more interest in the nutrition bugs can provide.

联合国宣布昆虫是供养不断增长的全球人口的良好蛋白质来源后，昆虫食用开始受到重视。由于畜牧业对气候变化的影响以及天气和战争带来的世界饥饿问题，人们对昆虫提供的营养价值越来越感兴趣。
Some people think eating insects is just gross. But Japan has a rich history of using insects as food.

有些人认为吃昆虫很恶心。但是日本在使用昆虫作为食物方面有着丰富的历史。

Grasshoppers, silkworms, and wasps were traditionally eaten in areas of the country with little meat and fish. It was a practice that grew in popularity because of food shortages during and after World War II, said Take-Noko manager Michiko Miura.

在日本，蚱蜢、蚕蛹和黄蜂在传统上被食用于肉类和鱼类较少的地区。Take-Noko餐厅的经理三浦美智子表示，由于二战期间和战后的食物短缺，这种做法变得越来越受欢迎。

"Recently, there have been advances in rearing things like crickets and mealworms for food, so the possibility of using insects as ingredients is really growing," she added. Several companies in Japan sell cakes and snacks made from cricket flour.

她补充说：“最近，人们在饲养蟋蟀和黄粉虫等昆虫作为食物方面取得了进展，所以使用昆虫作为食材的可能性正在不断增加。”日本有几家公司销售以蟋蟀粉制成的蛋糕和零食。

Interest has also grown at Take-Noko, which is often fully reserved on weekends.

在Take-Noko餐厅，人们对昆虫食品的兴趣也在增加，周末经常全满预订。

The restaurant’s curry contains crickets in meatball form. The "sashimi" is the leftover shell of silkworms, and the cider contains water bug extract and is topped with a whole insect.

该餐厅的咖喱中含有蟋蟀的肉丸形式。"生鱼片"是蚕蛹的残壳，而苹果酒含有水虫的提取物，并放有整只昆虫。

Takeo Saito started the restaurant. He also has a packaged food company that offers more than 60 kinds of bug foods, from scorpions to tarantulas.

餐厅的创始人是Takeo Saito。他还拥有一家包装食品公司，提供超过60种昆虫食品，从蝎子到蜘蛛不一而足。

"Our aim is not for insects to be something separate, but to be enjoyed at the same table as vegetables, fish, and meat," Saito said.

Saito表示：“我们的目标不是让昆虫成为一种独立的东西，而是与蔬菜、鱼类和肉类一起在同一桌上享用。” 

I’m Dan Novak. 

我是丹·诺瓦克。

Words in This Story

cider — n. a drink made from apples

gross — adj. very disgusting

practice — n. to do something again and again in order to become better at it

manager — n. someone who is in charge of a business, department, etc.

rear — v. to take care of

snack — n. a small amount of food eaten between meals

reserve — v. to make arrangements so that you will be able to use or have at a later time

extract — v. to remove by pulling it out or cutting it out

package — n. a box or large envelope that is sent or delivered usually through the mail or by another delivery service