By admin | November 25, 2009
I recently made a visit to a semi-famous Isaan restaurant in Bangkok called Crok Mai Thai Lao [ครà¸à¹„ม้ไทยลาว]. The name refers to the ever ubiquitous wooden mortar and pestle required for somtom and northeastern chili dips. Most Isaan restaurants in Bangkok are little more than temporary street stalls whereas Crok Mai is relatively large and […]
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Well, you can never have too many photos of scorpions so here you go!
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 won’t be digging in too much, though. I just had a sample of each and that is […]
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 variety bag of bugs including grasshoppers (dtakadaen [ตั๊à¸à¹à¸•à¸™]), water beetles (malaeng dtapdtao [à¹à¸¡à¸¥à¸‡à¸•à¸±à¸šà¹€à¸•à¹ˆà¸²]), and mole crickets (malaeng sawn[à¹à¸¡à¸¥à¸‡à¸‹à¸à¸™]). I have […]
While sounding weird, this dish is amazingly simple: ants mixed with coconut. In Thai called miang mod daeng sai maphrao [เมี่ยงมดà¹à¸”งใส่มะพร้าว] which literally means ‘mixed ants with coconut’. From what I hear, they collect the ants by knocking their nest out of a tree into a basket. Then they have to quickly (these ones bite) […]
By admin | January 27, 2008
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 find snails a bit rubbery. Maybe I have just never had any good ones. Anyway, there […]
By admin | December 26, 2007
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 lovely maengda yet again.
By admin | December 26, 2007
Here we have (again!) some:  (miang mot daeng [เมี่ยงมดà¹à¸”ง])  (maengdaa [à¹à¸¡à¸¥à¸‡à¸”า]) bamboo worms (rot duan [รถด่วน]). There name literally means train which sort of represents their shape.
By admin | October 13, 2007
These tiny bugs, called gudjii [à¸à¸¸à¹Šà¸”จี่] 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 exclusively on animal poop. And many types don’t just eat the poop, but actually play with it by rolling it into little balls. […]
By admin | February 12, 2007
This was a really tasty home cooked meal. Seriously. Gaeng pak waan sai kai mod daeng [à¹à¸à¸‡à¸œà¸±à¸à¸«à¸§à¸²à¸™à¹ƒà¸ªà¹ˆà¹„ข่มดà¹à¸”ง], or in English, a vegetable soup with red ant eggs. Ant eggs are used in a couple of Isaan dishes, but they are seasonal. Another common way to serve them is in an omelet. You can click on […]
