Some Thai Food Has Six Legs

Many people around the world to enjoy Thai food: spicy soups and salads, flavorful rice dishes are abundant. But in Thailand, fried or roasted insects and scorpions are also popular, readily available, and inexpensive.Insects have traditionally been a rich source of protein, calories, vitamins and minerals in the diet of northern Thailand. They are also prized as delicacies. In fact it is rare to find an insect that is eaten in one way or another by local people. Among the most popular are: crickets, grasshoppers, mantids, crickets and grasshoppers that are fried and are quite crisp, bamboo worms, which are also fried giant water bugs, which are steamed, are also ground into a paste with chili and eaten with glutinous rice, Weaver ants (fire ants with a painful bite) and their eggs, sticky rice is immersed in a mixture of ants, eggs and chili, beetles, which adds a healthy curry flavor However, many people do not eat because they live in and excrement.In addition, the Thais eat the pupae of silk moths and other moths and butterflies, you must remove the pupae from their cocoons, then boil until tender with a pinch of salt, then sauté them slightly, the larvae of wasps and bees, which are fried and arachnids: scorpions, poisonous, they are grilled, giant tarantulas, which are also not seen grilled.I eating other spiders, but I suspect that if moves, is considered somewhere.Also food, termites (white ants large) are grilled and their eggs are a delicacy used to make a tasty soup.Where lived in Bangkok, Sukhumvit Soi 4, every night from about 5:00 PM, there was a peddler with a half dozen species of insects and grilled and fried scorpions, their clients were mostly girls from nearby bars. Every night was busy, as the girls find these insects a tasty snack, and Munch on them as often as Western Munch Madam potato seller chips.The not speak English, but before their goods for a photo itself, giving it a 20 baht (60 cents) tip. And if you're brave, you can always buy a bag of deep fried bamboo worms ...