I like to explore and taste new stuff (food that are edible and nothing else haha...) and pop something weird in my mouth (once again i have to highlight food, edible and nothing else haha...) therefore would like to ask what are the more exotic food i can get in Hua Hin, the weirder the better...
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
In my time I have eaten 1 (one!) maggot-type thing, 1 deep-fried to a frazzle baby frog, head, feet and all, and 1 (one!) spoonful of something called pok pok, which looked ok and I was assured was not spicy, but blew my head off worse than the hottest som tam I've ever tasted.
BUT, never mind the cringe factor or the chilli heat, I have never tried, and am unlikely ever to do so, the kind of stuff I sometimes see Thai people eating in the street or the bar; namely, what looks like bunches of twigs and leaves snapped off some kind of tree.
I am sure there is more than one variety of this kind of stuff, but if you live out there you probably know the kind of thing I am talking about.
Probably cheap and healthy - indeed, I think it is often available as a help-yourself type of street food accompaniment - but has anybody on the board ever tried it?
"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true?" - Bruce Springsteen
I had some snake soup earlier in the month up in Issan. I don’t know what type of snake it was, but one of the local farmers killed it by spinning it around by the tail and bashing its head into a tree.
It was then baked on a fire for a while, slit along its length to remove the intestines, chopped into pieces about three inch’s long and boiled up in a pot with some hedge clippings.
To be honest you don’t get much meat of it as it’s mainly rib-cage, but what you do get is quite pleasant; it tastes like a cross between chicken and a strong fish such as swordfish or shark.
According to affluent locals there is a restaurant in Pala-U that serves all sorts of forest delights poached from Kang Krachan. Some are species I have never heard of. I have been trying to find out where it is so I can give it a wide birth.
I went into a restaurant in Nong Plub a few years ago and noticed a beaver look alike nailed to a wooden board and partly skinned. I ordered prawns just to be on the safe side.
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Lunching out with some Thai friends at a really nice restaurant next the the River Kwai Bridge, our Thai friend ordered baby birds. A large plate of complete, whole, half-feathered, little birds - heads, feet, everything, was delivered to our table. The Thai friends 'sucked' on them, I just wanted to throw up in the river...
VS
"Properly trained, man can be a dog's best friend"
Had an issan g/f before she ordered me what I later discovered were called disco fish-A styroform box was delivered with a banging noice coming from the lid of it.When she open the lid little fishs were trying to jump out-she caught one by the tail and told me to shallow it live,when it went down my gob I could feel it wrigaling all the way down hence the name disco fish.
These delights can be found at a stall beside foodland Sukenvit.
