Isaan scorpion burger "aroi maak"! The north eastern Big Mac with a sting in the tail!

[webfact]

Isaan scorpion burger "aroi maak"! The north eastern Big Mac with a sting in the tail!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that people in the north east of Thailand love to eat scorpions - a creature called maengpong in standard Thai but known as "kha la" in Isaan dialects. 

 

There are many ways of cooking the creatures found in the fields such as just fried, in steamed curry (hor mok), nam phrik (a spicy condiment) or in regular curry.

 

But one woman told the city slickers of Daily News - probably more used to Big Macs rather than such delicacies - that a great way to eat the creatures was in a kind of burger. 

 

Nen Phimsing, 42, in Jorm Phra district of Surin said she would go out at night armed with a torch and trap the scorpions using a spade when they came out of their holes. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

If she got a lot she would share them with her neighbors. 

 

She revealed an interesting dish like a burger that has been handed down in her family for generations. She chops up the scorpions then mixes them with egg, dried chili and basil and gives the resulting mixture a turn on the barbie. 

 

Voila Isaan Scorpion Burger!

 

The other main difference between this and Ray Kroc's burgers is that she does not use a bun - her family and neighbors eat the burger with rice!

 

And the verdict is that they are "aroi maak maak" or "saep eelee" - yummy in any language!

 

Source: Daily News

[Moti24]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Isaan scorpion burger "aroi maak"! 

Egg and chips is "aroi maak"!  They can shove the scorpions where the sun doesn't shine!

[Geoffggi]

Sounds Yummy....!!!

[curtklay]

????

[hotchilli]

If all you got to eat is what crawls around the floor then it's time to move out

 

[Lupatria]

With chili they would even eat their dead grandma...

[myshem]

Eat scorpions and drink snake wine !!!

 

 

[FreekB]

3 hours ago, Moti24 said:

Egg and chips is "aroi maak"!  They can shove the scorpions where the sun doesn't shine!

Egg and chips???? You have no taste, bummer.

[ratcatcher]

3 hours ago, Moti24 said:

Egg and chips is "aroi maak"!  They can shove the scorpions where the sun doesn't shine!

That would create a genuine pain in the arse.

[emptypockets]

People have different tastes all over the world. 

Get caught with a steak in the very strict Sikh states in India and you face a death sentence. Possess a leather belt and you are in deep trouble. 

I always find malampong have too much shell and too crunchy for my taste. Grasshoppers are OK though as long as they are deep fried very well and mixed with pork/mild curry powder. Not bad for breakfast but to be truthful I do prefer cornflakes.