Social media feels sick as "jingjok" turns up in Pattaya street snack

[rooster59]

Social media feels sick as "jingjok" turns up in Pattaya street snack

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

Netizens reeled in revulsion after someone posted a picture of what they found in a popular snack in the Ang Sila market in Pattaya.

Barbecued to a turn inside some Jaeng Lon (grilled Thai fish cake skewers) was a whole jingjok.

"Aom Infinity" who posted pictures of the find didn't feel like eating anymore but added with a twinge of Thai irony on Facebook:

"Don't forget to chew well or the jingjok may get stuck in your throat".

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

 

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[Nong Khai Man]

Yuk !!

 

[MadMuhammad]

That’s not so bad. Geckos are nutritious I’m sure. 

Be grateful you didn’t get charged extra lol

[lonewolf99]

If you do not regularly lift the lid off your electric kettle, and fill it through the spout, you might find you have been drinking out of one with the boiled remains of a Gecko.....as a work colleague of mine did in Africa.

 

 

[wirat69]

So Ang Sila has moved from Amphoe Meung to Pattaya????

[maxpower]

Up north you pay an extra 2 Baht for that.

[Get Real]

What´s the problem. Just a mistake. Sure it doesn´t happen frequently. Not much to make a fuzz about.

[Randell]

Lonewolf99

that happened to me just the other day flipped up the lid and there was half a gecko the other half was all but disintegrated in the bottom of the electric kettle. And I thought it was just my cheap brand of instant coffee 555. what's the old saying what ever doesn't kill you make you stronger

[Argus Tuft]

"Waiter!  Waiter!  What's this gecko doing in my Jaeng Lon?!"

 

"He appears to be just resting Sir. I dare say he won't be much of a bother"

[lemonjelly]

Thai netizens who think nothing of eating fermented fish or shrimp juice, frogs, deep fried “lukchin” (don’t even contemplate the ingredients) horrified by gecko....... lol

[BuaBS]

Where do the Thai draw the line ? Eating all kinds of fried bugs , but no jingjoks ? 

[johnarth]

they know they have to be well cooked because if an adult catches a young one it swallows the young one whole head first, in that case, you have two skins to contend with lol.

 

[StayinThailand2much]

1 hour ago, BuaBS said:

Where do the Thai draw the line ? Eating all kinds of fried bugs , but no jingjoks ? 

If it had been a (grilled) toad in the Jaeng Lon, the seller would have been praised for the delicacy, and been asked for the recipe, to be shared by Thai netizens on Facebook...

[wakeupplease]

Wonderful Thai street food as TAT put in their adds.

 

Hygiene standards, yes we have then here

[StayinThailand2much]

4 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:

Wonderful Thai street food as TAT put in their adds.

 

Hygiene standards, yes we have then here

Could be a new advertising slogan for the TAT: "Thailand - The Hub of Low Hygiene Standards for Street Food".

[jaywalker]

This sounds like a PERFECT Thai explanation...just with soup...

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"How come there's a dead lizard in my soup?” 

Waiter — “In fact, sir, I have no positive idea how the poor thing came to its death. Perhaps it had not taken any food for a long time, dashed upon the soup, ate too much of it, and contracted an inflammation of the stomach that brought on death. The lizard must have a very weak constitution, for when I served the soup it was dancing merrily on the surface. Perhaps — and the idea presents itself only at this moment — it endeavored to swallow too large a piece of vegetable; this, remaining fast in his throat, caused a choking in the windpipe. This is the only reason I could give for the death of this reptile.” 

 

Source: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/waiter_theres_a_fly_in_my_soup

Edited September 30, 2017 by jaywalker

[jacko45k]

17 hours ago, MadMuhammad said:

That’s not so bad. Geckos are nutritious I’m sure. 

Be grateful you didn’t get charged extra lol

My cat always throws up after eating them so maybe not.

[jaywalker]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

My cat always throws up after eating them so maybe not.

I've seen domestic cats go insane (cross-eyed, feral etc) from eating some types of lizards in Florida, now that you mention it.

 

 

[mikebell]

We went to a restaurant on the beach outside Pattaya. Four adults ordered 3 G & Ts; my wife ordered a red wine.  The meal progressed; my wife drained her glass then spat it out as she discovered a dead lizard in it.

We called the manager; he was perplexed; it was a new bottle; how had it got there?  Generously he decreed we would not have to pay for the Chateau Jingjok.

Despite eating there regularly for years, we've never been back.  His generosity has cost him about 5000 baht a month during the last three years.