Warm Bug Salad

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

  • About

A warm salad of Moreton Bay bugs with toasted salted fish was one of the first East Meets West fusion dishes created by Cheong in the late 1970s at Neddy’s restaurant – and it broke all of that era’s established laws of cuisine and presentation.

Method

I saw this as an alternative to the stodgy restaurant food being prepared all across Adelaide, according to half-remembered European techniques.

I prepared Moreton Bay bugs like we cooked shellf