Cafe bugs customers with insect menu

SEOUL - We have been told that insects will be a valuable food source in the future. But it is not easy to embrace the idea of having worms, crickets and grasshoppers on our plates.

There are pioneers, however, bringing the future closer. While figuring out more efficient ways of farming and retailing edible bugs, they also work on developing recipes.

Edible Coffee is a coffee shop in southern Seoul, selling coffee and tea just like any other cafe since 2016. An unwary visitor may be shocked, however, by the menu that includes cricket tea, mealworm muffin and a silkworm green tea smoothie.