Strangest food you've eaten in Thailand?

[STEVE G]

....does everything unusual (rat, frog, snake etc etc ) really taste like chicken??? :shock: :? :mrgreen:

Snake tastes more like frog than chicken.
Actually they eat it a lot in Issan as the sugar cane is full of them and it's basically free food.
It reminds me more of swordfish in texture, but it has a lot of rib bones as you can imagine.
If you want to try frog, there is a small open restaurant opposite the bus office, a bit further towards the market that does a good Tom Yum Gop.

[richard]

Having lived in Isaan for many months I find the only taste I get is the spices regardless of what meat is used

[redzonerocker]

Snake tastes more like frog than chicken.
Actually they eat it a lot in Issan as the sugar cane is full of them and it's basically free food.

but i've been informed many times that frog tastes like chicken
they eat a lot of lizards in issan too , used to be fascinated watching the young kids catching them with their bamboo & line
wonder if that tastes like chicken too

If you want to try frog, . . . .

ummm no thanks mate
i don't think there's an item on this thread that i would be interested in sampling
i wouldn't be critical of anyone that does though, each to their own

[redzonerocker]

Having lived in Isaan for many months I find the only taste I get is the spices regardless of what meat is used

& wasn't that the origin of the good old ruby??

[frankygoes]

I've had the bugs. Didn't like them. I enjoyed snake.

How you guys can eat all that crazy stuff is beyond me. I'd love the balls to do it.

What really puts me off is the baby chickens on a stick. Could never do it.

[Khundon1975]

redzonerocker Even the frogs agree on that point.

[GandY]

We all know of Pork Scratchings (fried Pig rind) - delicious.

Fast/deep dried pig rind expands and is light and airy as opposed to tooth-breakingly crunchy. It is often called "Pork Crunch" in the UK - equally delicious.

My lady bought (what I thought was) a bag of "Pork Crunch" one day and I couldn't resist them. They tasted different tho. Not quite so moreish (but OK, sort of).

Turns out they were deep-fried fish intestines and not usually eaten dry, by the Thais, but boiled in a soup and made to go all soft and gooey and horrible. Tasted OK dry, tho.

Dried barbequed squid is a bit of acquired taste. OK in parts but quite an intense taste in others (a bit like eating the fish equivalent of blue cheese).

Over the years, I've moved on from actively banning Durian fruit from the house to positively revelling in the fruity odour (as well as enjoying the flavour).

Last year we "saved" half a dozen chickens from a similar couple who had to let them go. They were all carrying (fertilised) eggs. Before long we had loads of chucks about the place but some of the eggs didn't hatch. During a BBQ in the back yard, a friend of my lady found these unhatched eggs and became very excited. Half an hour later I (as the token "brave" Farang, where eating "odd" stuff was concerned) was being offered a plate of noodles, salad and chicken embryos in various stages of maturity. Suffice to say, I declined the invitation - much to the Thai girls' relief, it would appear, as the plate was quickly emptied.

Haddled eggs/ No thanks. A step way too far, IMHO.

[PeteC]

Any kind of seafood that is letting off a slight ammonia odor or taste has turned. Spit and run! Pete

[Khundon1975]

GandY

I hate the smell of those fish tummies cooking and my other hate is the smell of bamboo shoots, it makes me want to upchuck. and when her friends come round for a cook off, then I'm

I do love proper pork scratchings though.

[richard]

Worst still is getting in the post.

When the wife and I lived in HH we used to get parcels which could move across the floor. Fresh bugs (still alive) sent from Isaan.

What next? I am beginning to think I will wake up one morning with a horses head in my bed

[STEVE G]

I know how you feel Richard, everytime I visit I end up driving from Issan to Hua Hin with boxes and bags of various live jungle food in the back of the truck.
One of the favourites is a sack of land crabs which sort of itches and fidgets about wherever you put it or boxes of frogs.
That wouldn't be so bad, but we then end up taking something out at night with us to give to someones wife or girlfriend.
We once took a box of live frogs to the old Road-hole for one of the staff, who then proceeded to cook several of them as a bar snack!

[crazy88]

Cobra was nice. Frogs good also. Moray eel a bit too wet. Sun dried chicken embyowas horrible but in one of those situations where I could not refuse.

Crazy 88

[PeteC]

Not too late for a Songkran BBQ. Pete

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2010 ... s-eat-rat/

[Jaime]

Damn right Pete!

[PeteC]

Let it be reminded that these are not your Bangkok denizen of the deep sewer rats, but fluffy brown rice field rats that have eaten only grain since birth. Ratatouille was a master chef, and a masterful dish. Pete