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Ant egg soup
Look at them ants This was a really tasty home cooked meal. Seriously. Gaeng pak waan sai kai mod daeng [แกงผักหวานใส่ไข่มดแดง], or in English, a vegetable soup with red ant eggs. Ant eggs are used in...
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Tasty little bugs
Tiny bugger These tiny bugs, called gudjii [กุ๊ดจี่] up in Isaan are another unique snack. These bugs are actually members of the dung beetle family. In other words, they are bugs that live almost...
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More insects
Yum! Here we have (again!) some: ants (miang mot daeng [เมี่ยงมดแดง]) water cockroaches (maengdaa [แมลงดา]) bamboo worms (rot duan [รถด่วน]). There name literally means train which sort of represents...
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Insect vendor
Vendor's cart There’s never enough bugs for sale, is there? Here’s a typical insect vendor’s cart with all the bugs divided into neat little compartments. And of course, I had to get a closeup of the...
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Vietnamese snails
Snails! Here are some snails we order in Ho Chi Minh City. An interesting food, but I’m not a big snail lover in the first place and these certainly did sway me. I suppose not too bad, but I always...
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A nice mixture of ants and coconut
Bag full of ants While sounding weird, this dish is amazingly simple: ants mixed with coconut. In Thai called miang mod daeng sai maphrao [เมี่ยงมดแดงใส่มะพร้าว] which literally means ‘mixed ants with...
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Three edible insects
What a surprise! I came home just the other day to discover that someone had purchased a bag of treats. Maybe I should be more specific and say a bag of Thai treats…AKA bugs. Yep, I encountered a...
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Three edible insects…cooked
Ready to eat Well, it didn’t take long to prepare those. Throw them into the wok with a bit of soy sauce and there you go. So now I have this stir-fried assortment of bugs sitting in front of me. I...
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Scorpions (again)
Well, you can never have too many photos of scorpions so here you go! Nice scorpion แมงป่อง (maeng bpong) Similar posts:Scorpions and water cockroaches Here’s two nice snacks for you. We got the...
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Isaan oddities
Mushroom soup I recently made a visit to a semi-famous Isaan restaurant in Bangkok called Crok Mai Thai Lao [ครกไม้ไทยลาว]. The name refers to the ever ubiquitous wooden mortar and pestle required for...
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