I suppose you could eat just about anything if you fry it--bugs, shoes, roadkill, small pillows whatever. It was quite vogue among the bumbag set to eat deep fried Twinkies a few years ago in my hometown.
Here's a pic (with a crushed Oreo topper):
I suppose you could eat just about anything if you fry it--bugs, shoes, roadkill, small pillows whatever. It was quite vogue among the bumbag set to eat deep fried Twinkies a few years ago in my hometown.
Here's a pic (with a crushed Oreo topper):
Snails i love em, tasty, Escargo, a few years back use to go to a famous steak house in Pattaya, i would always order snails to start, then go onto a Nice juicy T-Bone, wife and i eat here quite often untill something put me off.
Went to the outside concrete shithouse, there were 2 thai guys there collecting Snails in a basket off the side of the pan and around the toilet area.
Put me off snails for life.
Escargo, snails, in Italian and Chinese Food. Delicious. Here just out side of Korat my wife and her family get these big black looking beetles and cook them up. I ate some once and that was enough for me. Fried grass hoppers are nice for a snack. Except for escargo I really prefer a steak.
Had a few of these when i was pissed didn't have much flavour if i remember right overpowerd by the manky oil used to fry them in.
Also had some Dancing prawn or shrimp a while back imo little raw prawns marinated in chilli taste a bit like watery chilli.
Well, luckily I didn't have any tortoises on me at the time...
Well i like sweetbreads, wife always says to me if you can eat those you will eat anything, she thinks it is disgusting.
Some of the insects are quite tasty.
I keep birds( feathered ones!) and they love bugs of any sort . Asked the local "passing by the bar" bug vendor for a kilo of live ones next time he came by. No can do - they are already dead before he gets them .
Apparently they spray the lalang ( long grass) with some cheap insecticide and then rake the little buggers out !
If you eat bugs and glow in the dark you know what causes it !
I think it helps if you are drunk before trying the Thai bush tucker challenge.
Tried the grasshoppers, witchety grub thingies, ants and the big waterbugs. There is a distinct bad smell to the hot oil on these bug carts.
I got frowned upon for leaving the heads and legs on the grasshoppers - the Thais take them off (buddhist thing?)
Some big waterbugs that I bought off a cart in Jomtien:
Ex-gik eating the waterbug:
Here we have another lovely insect food cart, this one was in Jomtien.
Grasshoppers.
Some big beasty beetle.
Silk worm grubsOriginally Posted by rawlins
^ That's the ones.!... They aren't too bad as a bar snack to go along with the sangsom soda...
My preferance is grasshoppers. Also I like the small crabs dug up in the rice fields.
I loved the video of the lady eating the praying mantis. Like a good lady she played with it before she put it into her mouth and then....swallowed the lot!
It's that time of year now when we eat ant eggs. Mix them up in an omelete. 10 B for a small bowl. Sorry no picture though.
I have eaten bamboo worms. They taste like pine nuts about the same consistency when chewed and quite good with beer. Being drunk helps to.
I do have to say that I have no problem eating the grasshopers (sky prawns) taste sort of like pork rinds. However the crickets have a totally different taste, sort of a nasty, bitter flavor to them that I don't care for. The scorpion didn't taste bad, however the shell was too thick and crunchy for me to really get into eating them. Bit expensive too, more of a "puts hair on your chest" kind of thing than a pig out food. Ate the caterpillars too once when I was drunk, sweet flavor but they have a rather unappealing look to them. Never tried any of the other variety of insects on the cart though and cockroaches are where I draw the line. Also I don't want to eat to large a serving as I hear they have been killed with insecticide and don't want to get too large an exposure.
Originally Posted by dirtydog
Great idea, not the heart attack mind!
I only draw the line with maang da!!
She's Khmer. You can tell because that is a traditional Khmer scarf on her head called a 'Krama'.
Are any of these bugs poisonous?
I guess the spiders are stir fried?
I was given waht I thought was beer nuts in Beijing delicious ,told it was flash fre silk worm !
The grasshoppers and silkworms are the only ones I've tried, tasty like pork scratchings A drink of water helps too, the insects are really salty! What other insects taste good? I've heard the waterbugs taste bad...
My girl taught me this- with the grasshoppers pull off the back legs because they're barbed and catch in the throat. Gently pull the head away from the body from the chin up- a line of poo (kee?) comes out with it. You can then eat the head and the body (if there are wings present, remove too).
No thanks, I'm not eating that stuff, I heard that they grow them in factories outside Bangkok, and use poison to kill them.
Actually I had fried crickets in Chiang Rai recently that were delicious.
I think it's gross.... Plus even snails can eat? But I'm curious what's it's taste...
^They taste exactly like what they live in.
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