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Food and Drink Thailand is a culinary paradise, but don't keep it hidden. Tell all where the best food is to be found, the best bars, the best Thai and Western restaurants as well as which cockroach infested flea pits to avoid. So tell us about your Dinning experiences in Thailand.

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Old 10-04-2008, 10:18 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Snacking on Insects
Entomophagy is the habit of eating insects as food. While it is common for many insects, birds and animals to indulge themselves, there are many insect/bug restaurants with these offerings.


The only picture I couldn't find were the delicious caramelized grasshoppers I had in Shanghai at this 'Bug Restaurant' They were very tasty.

Has anyone tried any insects/bugs as snacks? High in protein apparently.

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Old 10-04-2008, 10:25 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I've eaten Tree frogs (chicken nuggets) and crickets (pork scratchings) to impress me mates or make them feel physically sick. What the fook makes someone look at the above and think; Oh that looks nice. Also must be a lot of trouble to kebab those centipedes too.
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They are usually served with dipping sauces,whichetty grubs are eaten raw.Nothing wrong with eating bugs,some liquores have ants,scorpions or centipides in them.Worms aren't bad either,a bit chewy though,need marinating.

Mice I don't think are very appetising though unless properly prepared.
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love the isaan style fried grasshoppers!
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love the isaan style fried grasshoppers!
Yes,they will put the bounce back into you KW.
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Old 11-04-2008, 03:33 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Deep fried crickets and grasshoppers are a fairly regular beer snack for me.
I don't mind silkworms either.
Red ant salad- nice. Ditto ant egg salad- pretty fiery though, they add loads of chilly.
Aussie Witchetty grubs I've tried also- nice.
Scorpions are nice too, I've only had them BBQ'd though.
Various insects go into some dips I've tried in Isaan, don't ask me what.

Can't yet bring myself to eat BBQ'd spiders or those big, cockroach like water bugs though- both of which Mrs likes.
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same same here, don,t mind a bag of hoppers with a beer,but i can,t come at those big water bugs
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I spent several months in China.
Only thing I couldn't eat was a dish of donkey organ. F*** knows what organ, but the living donkeys looked so sick i couldn't face a dead one. A bath full of frogs in a Beijing market was fairly disgusting. On the other hand, I never knew how good snails could be!!!
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