World Markets Podcast Podcast

Beijing, Shilihe: the pet insects market

RFI is doing its market this summer. Our correspondents have walked their microphones around the stalls and in the alleys of these swarming trading places full of life. In their baskets: the sounds and flavors of the world's markets with today: the company insects market in Beijing ... (a place not to be confused with the night market popular with tourists for its skewers of scorpions and other spiders in cornet). Here, it is the singing of Orthoptera that attracts enthusiasts. The tradition goes back to the emperor's court.