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24-05-2007, 16:47
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Strange thai food
Like every one i have ate grass hoppers [locus] and bettles. But when i stayed in my tg village in Issan i ate cat fish and and very small mud crubs that you eat the whole thing the shell and guts that they caught from their dam and cooked it on a open fire . Also there they ate small lizards,ants,and rats but only the rats from the field not the rats from the village as my tg says lol. I have found a tadpole in my papaya salad but the strangest thing i saw was when they cooked me larb [pork mince with garlic,corriander and heaps of chillies] my larb was was exellent but they ate there's raw
 If a farang ate raw pork we would be on the tiolet for days.Why don't thai's get sick  
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25-05-2007, 22:13
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Its something to do with their natural resistance to certain bacteria that they have built up over the years which we dont have.
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25-05-2007, 22:18
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Strange thing is my friend likes pork medium rare, while as European I want it well done... but then home I like raw minced porc with nutmeg, salt and pepper in a sandwich 
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25-05-2007, 22:51
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sheeps brains
 i tried sheeps brain soup but in turkey , tasted like a fowl tasting jelly(been bleating & eating grass eversince) but really looking forward to the Thai food .into the spicy stuff but not really the creepy crawlies.
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25-05-2007, 23:47
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Last time I was in Thailand I had ants. Ate a lot of them, but they really don't taste like much. Some times when I saw ants on the ground I would point at them and say "protein". They all thought that was funny, because they would never eat those ants.
BTW, I have eaten most stuff raw pork, beef, fish, chicken and buffalo too. I eat raw meat on a weekly basis.
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26-05-2007, 00:32
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How about raw pork mixed with herbs and spices, stuffed in a bull scrotum and hung from a tree in the sun for a month? De-lish!
When I moved to Thailand, it didn't take too long before I could stomach pretty much anything. Once I found myself waiting for a street vendor to stop puking into a bucket so he could finish cooking my food - didn't hurt my appetite at all. Wondered a bit about my sanity though. Some doctors are saying that we in the First World are too clean, and that it's impaired our bodies' ability to fight disease. In years in Thailand, I never caught the flu or a cold, and the allergies that have bothered me all my life just disappeared. Got deathly ill on street food a couple times though....
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26-05-2007, 08:34
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you must have been a good boy and not drink too much because i was always coming down with sore throats and little colds because i drank way too much
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26-05-2007, 08:53
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larb is one of my favourites, never had the lizards, rats, but its all good food and keeps starvation away.
not too worried about what i eat at the house, but as experience has taught market food which smells great looks good is only a precursor to mild stomach upsets for me.
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26-05-2007, 10:09
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Erm, have not eaten raw pork before. Wonder how that tastes like.
I like to eat Pig's intestines (In KL, we call it pig's inside or spare parts). Another favourite is pork cooked in herbs and Chinese red wine in a clay pot.
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26-05-2007, 11:04
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Yeah, I've never been able to drink in anything but moderation. It's an embarrassing foible.....
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27-05-2007, 09:50
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I drink in moderation...
moderation being the name I have given to the imaginary world I inhabit
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27-05-2007, 17:52
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Far too easy to blame the drink Paul 55555555. What you drink has no bearing on whether you catch a cold or not. I think you will find its more likely the heat, mixed with the A/C being too cold at times that makes you susceptible to the sore throats and colds 
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28-05-2007, 16:59
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28-05-2007, 19:25
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Strange food
Although I know that sometimes Thais eat strange food, it's still a little odd to see it on a restaurant menu. I was in a Thai restaurant in Patong one day and noticed that and they had frog, snake?, and some sort of bird on the menu. I don't remember seeing any rat, though. I decided to stick with the sweet and sour chicken.
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29-05-2007, 01:03
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Just reminded me off something, When I was in the TG's parents house a couple of weeks ago and we were sat on the mat it was Khin Khao time again som tam and such there were pices of meat and lots of little bones in it, I asked the TG what it was and she asked if I liked it but wouldn't tell me what it was till later. So later she comes up with the answer "Frog" not that bad I thought, I just replied It's ok Iv'e had that before in France. Meat was ok just like chicken but too many small bones.
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29-05-2007, 02:09
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Was in Seattle with the wife last month. She sent me out to bring back lunch. I couldn't find any Thai take-out near where we were staying, but I spotted a Vietnamese noodle place close by so I ordered a couple of phó noodle soups with chicken.
Back at the house, my wife took a couple bites and said, "This isn't chicken." Tasting it again, I had to agree with her and asked what she thought it was. "This is rat, sure! I eat many times before. This is rat!" Of course I'd eaten a half dozen pieces by then. It wasn't bad, actually. But she wouldn't touch it after that. "City rat not clean."
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10-06-2007, 23:55
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Learned of a new Isaan dish last night: DIRT!
My wife said her family would sometimes take pigs up into the hills to hunt for what she called "white dirt". When the pigs found some dirt they liked, then the villagers knew that it was safe for humans to eat. They'd take some back to the village and grill it. Yummy dirt cakes! My wife said they tasted good and left a pleasant chalky feeling in her mouth. "But one of my aunts ate too much. She ate dirt all the time until she got very thin and her skin turned yellow." I'm guessing from the fact that the dirt was white that this was a way they got calcium and other bone-building minerals.
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11-06-2007, 00:04
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Pigs hunting "white dirt"! Sounds like truffles to me!
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11-06-2007, 00:05
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Possibly some type of Truffle ??????? Edit: The "Cheeky Boy" beat me to it !!!!
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11-06-2007, 00:22
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Nope. I asked her if she meant a fungus or something in the dirt. But she was talking about actual dirt. They did use the pigs for the same reason truffle hunters use them though. Pigs have an excellent sense of smell and their metabolism is very similar to humans. If they can eat something, chances are we can too.
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11-06-2007, 00:39
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Quite happy normally to try whatever insects are put in front of me, first tried ants in MTB fed to me by one of the girls, didn't taste of much as it was in a spicy salad.
In the village had live ants and the white sacs of ant's eggs - not bad but not something I will seek out. As far as raw meat goes, steak tartare is something of a delicacy in the west - raw beef.
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11-06-2007, 00:59
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JUst looked up to see if there was any truffles in that area of the world just in case! There is............... Chinease truffles (Or fake white ones!) Quote:
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