But who would have thought, if the locusts have been the threat farmers would be typical food in Gunungkidul district. In fact, by most people insects grasshopper species of wood is called shrimp fly, because it tastes like shrimp and can fly as well.
Barjo (58), Mijahan Village, District Semanu, are many of the dozens of people who every day hunting grasshoppers grasshoppers on the street peddling Semanu-Wonosari. Every morning until the afternoon before, along with fellow hunter grasshopper he went round the fields owned by residents to look for grasshoppers. Within hours of 400 to 500 fish he could get.
After the hunt, locusts are cleaned feather wings, then direnteng using a stick and sold on the roadside. The price is reached Rp 400 per fish, be her a separate commodity in this region a thousand hills.
"Because of the current season are not locusts, so the price could reach USD 400 per tail Mas. If the price is fit again season no more than Rp 150 per head. Even the grasshoppers from Pacitan, East Java is also sold in some markets in Gunungkidul kilogram in size rather than per cow, "explained Barjo mangkalnya location on Monday (06/06/2011).
Along the way Wonosari-Semanu, precisely in the industrial area in the village of Mijahan, a number of regular diner serves fried grasshoppers. One of them is owned Sukini stalls, which each day was less than 2 pounds of fried grasshoppers are able to sell from her store.
The process of cleaning up to cook grasshoppers is very simple. Before cooking, the wings and grasshopper guts cleaned then washed using warm water until repeatedly.
"A number of spices such as garlic, onion, and salt-paste mixed with the grasshopper, and then inserted into the frying pan until cooked. Grasshoppers also can be cooked with fried dibacem it before," explained Sukini.
One of the flying shrimp lovers, Yuwono (35), who found while eating a grasshopper at a shop owned by Sukini admitted, in addition to crisp, taste of locusts as well as the fried shrimp. "Not a few people from outside Gunungkidul buy shrimp fly these as souvenirs typical of Gunungkidul food," said Yuwono.
Although there has been no clarity on how the content of vitamins that exist in this brown insects, but many people believe that the locusts have high protein content.