Eating insects in Thailand
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Good point. I was picturing myself a bear eating a freshly fished salmon :)
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I believe you point to the Rose shaped Salmon (see picture on wikipedia) While at Heathrow airport few days back, I ordered Smoked Salmon. I hardly had one bite and pushed it in bin. I don't have appetite for this :)
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:-D (Sorry - I just couldn't resist it. Well, I could but I didn't want to).;P
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Being a vegetarian and restricted egg user, the only dishes, I could dream here is: 1) Egg Puffs 2) Egg Omlette 3) Egg Plant (Brinjal in British English)
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
- Egg Puffs 2) Egg Omlette
My wife makes an ant egg omlette of sorts. There are other ingredients also but a good helping of red ant eggs. Yum! :-D
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Do you eat them alive, or grilled, or ... ?
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Do you eat them alive, or grilled, or ... ?
I have always had them cooked in some way or other. Boiled in soup, steamed, curried, roasted or deep fried. The eggs are also included in things like omlettes or various chopped meat dishes. Once you loose your cultural aversion to eating them they become a normal ingredient in food preparation. PS - eating insects is not my most daring cross culture culinary venture but to describe what that is would probably sicken most westerners. :-D
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:doh: i cant even begin to imagine what the texture and taste is like :| but like in another post, if i put enough chilli on them and drink enough beer i could eat a few before passing out X| but hey i might love them if i ever(never) try them :)
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i cant even begin to imagine what the texture and taste is like
It is quite different than what you are used to eating, but good once you get used to viewing them as a food source. :-D
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There is a Kohn Kan University study that concluded that they are 25% - 26% protein.
Uhh, so what's in the other 75% - 74%? :~
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Uhh, so what's in the other 75% - 74%?
Insect stuff! :-D
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Eating insects in Thailand[^] I have gotten over my original cultural aversion to insects and now eat them whenever I can. There is a Kohn Kan University study that concluded that they are 25% - 26% protein. It is fun to see the smiles and excitement on the local children's faces lining up to get a treat when I return from the market with a bag of ganope (locust in Khmer [picture #9]). Even the young babies line up, but I only give them the soft parts so they don't choke. My wife's Mom has taken to making special red ant egg (kai mot deng) dishes for me when the season is right. The neighbors know I like insects and send over cooked silk worms (caterpillars) for me when they harvest the silk. They are really tasty. I won't elaborate but the merchant lady's favorite is one of mine also. I never thought I would be eating these type of eggs but as it turns out they are really good.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesBut Areerat’s snacks are also proving popular with Asian and Middle Eastern tourists, and the occasional – usually drunk – Westerner. :laugh:
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My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistI figured that since I like eating sushi alot, why not try insects down in Thailand if I ever get the opportunity to visit there.
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But Areerat’s snacks are also proving popular with Asian and Middle Eastern tourists, and the occasional – usually drunk – Westerner. :laugh:
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and the occasional – usually drunk – Westerner.
Have to admit that's how I tried my first insect. A ([presumably] usually) drunk New Zealander bought some and proceeded to challenge the other westerners sitting in an open air cafe on Kao San Road in Bangkok to try one. He went on and on about how good they were. I took up the challenge and as they say "the rest is history".
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Eating insects in Thailand[^] I have gotten over my original cultural aversion to insects and now eat them whenever I can. There is a Kohn Kan University study that concluded that they are 25% - 26% protein. It is fun to see the smiles and excitement on the local children's faces lining up to get a treat when I return from the market with a bag of ganope (locust in Khmer [picture #9]). Even the young babies line up, but I only give them the soft parts so they don't choke. My wife's Mom has taken to making special red ant egg (kai mot deng) dishes for me when the season is right. The neighbors know I like insects and send over cooked silk worms (caterpillars) for me when they harvest the silk. They are really tasty. I won't elaborate but the merchant lady's favorite is one of mine also. I never thought I would be eating these type of eggs but as it turns out they are really good.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesThat's cool! I've been watching a show here in America where a guy eats insects as he demonstrates survival skills. I'm way more open to it now than I have been in the past.
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That's cool! I've been watching a show here in America where a guy eats insects as he demonstrates survival skills. I'm way more open to it now than I have been in the past.
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I'm way more open to it now than I have been in the past.
That's the first barrier crossed. :-D
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