The Thailand Photo Thread

[Big Boy]

My wife calls them (something like - excuse the spelling) a Mangdah Tallay or sea cockroach. She says they are fantastic eating, although I'm not brave/adventurous enough to try it. If it comes from the sea, and isn't battered, I don't eat it.

[Dannie Boy]

My wife calls them (something like - excuse the spelling) a Mangdah Tallay or sea cockroach. She says they are fantastic eating, although I'm not brave/adventurous enough to try it. If it comes from the sea, and isn't battered, I don't eat it.

Commonly known as the Horseshoe Crab - never tasted them myself, but you see plenty of them on offer at the Night Market. Apparently they harvest their blood for use in many pharmaceutical products, so we have much to be grateful from them. You can read more here. http://www.horseshoecrab.org/med/med.html

[Roel]

Big Boy a cockroach is a malaeng saap (แมลงสาบ) often shortened to maengsaap.
A maengdaa talay (แมงดาทะเล) is as Dannie Boy already said a Horseshoe Crab or a King Crab.

[gandalfinthai]

This was taken on the highway into Hua Hin from Bangkok. (At night, obviously)

If you would like to see more of these go to: https://plus.google.com/photos/11156268 ... banner=pwa

[Big Boy]

OK guys, I'm only telling you what my wife calls them. It is also the name the people selling them to her in Cha-Am call them. They're only Thai, so what do they know?

The cockroach bit is a standing joke with the freshwater Mangdah that she eats - they look very similar to cockroaches. So I'll concede the 'sea cockroach' bit, as she's probably joking.

[gandalfinthai]

Sorry, my first post to this Thread and I managed to get it wrong and posted it as a reply. Won't happen again.

[PeteC]

The Mangdah she's talking about BB could well be the rice bug version of the name. Every bug cart in the land has these for sale and they are a popular snack. In my past life here long ago they used to be 4-5" long, as they used to land on my neck at night all the time. Today's version is rarely over 1 1/2 or 2" max. Pete

[Big Boy]

I think you've posted it OK gandalfinthai. You were just unfortunate to post it in between a short discussion within the thread.

Creepy picture by the way - I'm not really sure what it is.

[Big Boy]

The Mangdah she's talking about BB could well be the rice bug version of the name. Every bug cart in the land has these for sale and they are a popular snack. In my past life here long ago they used to be 4-5" long, as they used to land on my neck at night all the time. Today's version is rarely over 1 1/2 or 2" max. Pete

Sounds like the same thing Pete - I used to have to nip out of work in Bath and go down to the local Oriental Shop to pick them up for her. they used to scare the hell out of the women in the office.

[gandalfinthai]

I think you've posted it OK gandalfinthai. You were just unfortunate to post it in between a short discussion within the thread.

Creepy picture by the way - I'm not really sure what it is.

Actually, it was taken from a mini van moving along the road at night - it is the lights from passing traffic and roadside businesses. With a long shutter time - the movement of the van and traffic create a montage of light.

[gandalfinthai]

Don`t know what that is, but I was happy that I didn`t meet it in the sea...

Yes. it is a horseshoe crab (used to be quite common on the beaches in Eastern North America.) We used them as bait to catch eels in the local river when I was a kid. I never knew anyone who would eat one.
Sadly, they are relatively rare now - due to pollution and habitat destruction (they live and breed near shorelines in shallow waters.)
They are related to arachnids and I have been told that the roe can be dangerous to eat. (toxins)

[gandalfinthai]

Short Tailed Macaque - taken near Pala-U

[caller]

Hello gandalfinthai, I had a look at your photos on the link and you've created some incredible imagery there, I really enjoyed them. The stand-out feature throughout is the way the light is portrayed against the ink-black background, did you need to tweek the photos to get that affect? Great stuff whatever!

[gandalfinthai]

Hello gandalfinthai, I had a look at your photos on the link and you've created some incredible imagery there, I really enjoyed them. The stand-out feature throughout is the way the light is portrayed against the ink-black background, did you need to tweek the photos to get that affect? Great stuff whatever!

Thanks Addict,
I did use Photoshop to deepen the black, slightly saturate the color and cropped them to get rid of some artifacts around edges.

[gandalfinthai]

This boy is in paradise, I think. I love the light beaming down through the trees.