Broccoli

You can see in the background my iPod being used as an expensive egg timer.

Up close and out of focus with the little, dead caterpillar



Broccoli
3 for $7.90
Wellcome (Shek Kip Mei)

You cannot find broccoli at a lower price in Hong Kong, I believe.  Anyway, that's beside the point.

The pictures not-so-clearly reveal the surprise guest in this post:  one small, dead, caterpillar that found a comfortable grave inside the head of one the three broccoli that I had purchased earlier in the evening.  In all my years of preparing vegetables, and broccoli in particular, I had never before come across one of these buggers that had hitched a ride onto a vegetable and, potentially, onto my dinner plate - after all, what then is the purpose of pesticide?   I'm glad I wash my vegetables.

In Hong Kong, I do remember almost consuming baahk choi before noticing a small, dead fly trapped in its wet leaves.  I highly doubt that the restaurant uses organic vegetables, so I wonder from which supplier that restaurant sources its produce!